You know you've been watching too much Ranma 1/2 when...

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Every time you wave you make the 'I Love You' symbol.

If you get mad at your boyfriend you splash him with cold water so he'll turn into a girl and leave you alone.

You find yourself reading this list.

You can laugh just like Kodachi (or you try to anyways).

You and your brother fall in love with the same person.

If your dad gives a long talk, you throw a bucket of cold water on him, hoping he'll turn into a panda and leave you alone.

You spend $16.00 each on the english graphic novels.

You name your kitty Shampoo.

You take your black piglet in the tub with you and hope Ryoga shows up.

You're afraid something strange will happen to you if you ever touch cold water.

Every time you eat ramen you hope it'll give you super strength.

If you see someone reaching for 110 shampoo, you cry out, "Stop! Don't use that Shampoo! Do you want to lose your memory?"

You keep buying blue lollipops out of respect for Shampoo.

You take cute things from people and give them cute little French names.

You have more than one fiancee.

You refuse to eat duck/ pig/ cat/ little girls.

You think Kuno's poems are inspiring.

You only give black roses, usually filled with strange powders.

Your umbrella serves two purposes- to keep out the terrible rain, and to do battle!

You only go out with guys/ girls who look like Ranma.

You always check your friends by dousing them with hot/ cold water.

You own all 161 episodes, plus the movies.

You know the real name for Shampoo's lollipops (bonbori-- :) ).

You go to bed every night saying thanks for Ranma 1/2 because you don't know what you'd do without it. 

You beware of strange brooches.

You've memorized all the songs-- in Japanese and in English (and in spanish, itialian, chinese...).

If you were to go to Japan, you would spend all your time and money on Ranma 1/2 merchandise.

You have a crush on your doctor.

You've memorized all the episodes-- in Japanese and English.

You can't help but call the skeleton in your science classroom, "Betty."

You would rather watch the Ranma 1/2 video jukebox than MTV.

You collect all the Ani-Mayhem cards just because they have Ranma in them.

You grab your neighbor's dog and ask, "Ryoga?"

You go to a karate school and ask if they teach any classes in anything-goes martial arts.

If they don't then you offer to teach one because then you can show Ranma videos for the 'techniques.'

Your hair is permanently stuck in a little pig-tailed braid.

Your teacher asks you to write a report on what you did over the summer and you hand in a detailed essay on the relationship (or lack thereof) between Akane and Ranma.

You think Nabiki and Kuno could even BE a couple!

Every time you see the 'I Love You' sign you ask the person if they've ever seen Ranma 1/2.

You tried faithfully to introduce your gymnastics class to martial arts.

Your gymnastics instructor gets mad at you because you insist on hiding lethal weapons in your equipment.

You actually LIKE how Sasuke looks!

Your family has ramen for dinner and you're sad you missed Shampoo when she delivered it.

The cook at the restaurant has long brown hair and you strike up a conversation with her in hopes that she will introduce you to Ranma.

Your parents have never seen the show but they can name all the characters and the relationships between them.

Mysterious springs really scare you/ tempt you.

When you're in China you ask all the uniformed men if they can tell you the way to Jusenkyo.

Worse, you go to China just to find Jusenkyo.

You see a panda and cry out, "Mr. Sautome! You've shrunk!"

You buy special glasses for your pet duck Mousse, because you're afraid that he might not be able to see without them. (or with them!)

You spend your free time thinking up things that can go on this list. ;)

You buy the prints that cost $24.00 or more!

Let's just say that the characters in the show aren't the only ones who have crushes on Akane and Ranma.

You laugh even when the show's not funny because you remember what happened in an earlier episode.

You buy the videos before you've even seen them.

Your computer talks to you in Ranma's voice. (who, me?)

You were so stricken with sympathy for Akane that you whacked your hair off too.

You call your female friends 'girl-type (name)', or '(name)-chan', and your guy friends 'male-type (name)' or '(name)-kun.'

If your intimate apparel disappears, you immediately look for Happosai.

Bald guys wearing kerchiefs and teenagers wearing yellow bandannas are in for a cold wet surprise.

You spend time in front of the mirror wondering how Ranma gets his/her hair to look like that.

You prefer to go through rather than around walls.

Even with a map, you get lost in your own house.

You're not even sure where your house is.

All the people in the phone book with the last names Tendo or Sautome recognize your voice and have their answering machines saying, "No, this is not Akane's and Ranma's dojo."

Your worst fear is cats!

When your fear of cats passes beyond a certain point... oh, never mind.

You've tried, and wondered... how does Ranma heal so darn fast?!?

You hold onto half a scroll and stand in your backyard for hours convinced that your prince will come for you.

You make a long list of how Ranma was so different in "Shampoo's Sudden Switch: The Curse of the Contrary Jewel."

Pickled food is best-- 'nuf said.

Kuno's poems make complete sense to you.

When you come to school on Halloween, everybody asks you why you have red hair and who you're supposed to be.

Ryoga's teeth don't scare you any more.- You've come to accept the fact that he must be a vampire.

You just HAVE to ask the two homeless sisters who stole your food who their father is, to be sure.

You have seen at least one episode within the last 24 hours.

There is no such thing as too much Ranma 1/2!

You demand to be called "Upperclassman."

You learn to speak Japanese from watching the original shows.

Your favorite fraction is 1/2.

Your math teacher asks why you answered question #39 in weird possibly mathematical symbols followed by 1/2.

You see a red-headed girl in a tree and start to wonder... hmmm?

Any guy wearing a choker is fair game for the name "Charlotte."

You Dad cries at the slightest thing.

A sex change is not so scary anymore.

Every time you hear "I Love You," scary visions of naked Kuno haunt your every thought.

You wonder 'what if?' every time something happens in an episode and decide to write a long fanfic about it.

You have been to every Ranma 1/2 site on the internet.

You take time to set up an internet site of your own.

The reason you bought a scanner is to scan images from the manga.

You create your 'own' character that somehow works into the Ranma 1/2 universe.

You walk into the neighborhood comic shop and they automatically pull out their new shipment of Ranma merchandise.

Your father changed his name to Soun so you would pay attention to him.

Major TV companies are swamped with your letters asking them to put Ranma 1/2 on the air.

Your assignment in history class is to draw the Egyptian Sun God, Ra... somehow your picture inexplicably has black hair... and a little pig-tailed braid.

You hear an advertisement on the radio for your town's new nightclub, the Zone, and you could swear that they said "The Soun." (This really actually happened to me...)

When looking to buy a dog, you want one who is black on one side and white on the other.

You go to the old folks home and ask if anyone has seen a woman who looks like a wrinkled old monkey on a stick go by, claiming she is your long lost great grandma.

You throw away any bracelets with pearls on them, saying the pearls are dangerous love pills.

Or... you try and feed the pearl to the girl/guy you have a crush on...

You spy on your teacher to see if she'll turn into a kid.

You wear a jacket with an image of Ranma(-kun or -chan) on the back.

You castrate yourself while trying to hide multiple sharp objects in your bathrobe.

You accidentally call ATM machines Nabiki.

You try and perfect your chinese accent.

Your little brother doesn't hide adult magazines under his bed, but photocopied pictures of Akane, Shampoo and Ranma-chan naked.

You wonder why Xena doesn't have a chinese accent like Shampoo, she's an amazon after all.

You spend your time arguing about how Shampoo loves Mousse, but can't really show it, that's all.

You eat lots of carrots in hopes of never losing your sight.

You are extra careful around little cat bells.

When any instance of surprise or defeat causes you to make the 'I love you' gesture.

You know what the Battle Dougi story is.

You compile long lists of how Ranma is a rude jerk!

You desperately spend your entire life searching for female Ranma 1/2 fans! And Fail! You desperately search for male Ranma 1/2 fans. And succeed! With surprising ease!

When you identify so much with Ryouga that you actually physically flinch and wince when Akane says something like "I sure feel sorry for whoever ends up being HIS girl friend!"

You spend hours looking through your Ranma tapes for the hidden scenes (like this one from "Faster, Kasumi! Kill! Kill!")

You call any man younger than yourself "son-in-law."

At football games, you dread the game that they bring out a black pigskin ball.

You scare your family by getting up in the middle of the night and whispering, "Oh, oh, oh my. I'm afraid I'm about to do something evil again."

You just know that Akane flipped Ranma off in "Soap Gets in Your Eyes."

Rumiko Takahashi comes to my page, and send me a praise via E-mail.

She actually likes some of the FanFics/FanArts so much she actually decided to design a movie or comic using that character.

You want to visit Jusenkyo and take a swim.

You actually read this list and liked it.

When you start carrying giant weapons (Spatulas, mallets, etc.) around in your clothes or in belts draped across your body.

You get angry everytime someone makes fun of Ranma and beat the poor bugger into a messy pulp.

You start attempting Olympic Record breaking 40 foot jumps. And succeed.

Your friends begin to catch Ranmaism from you and you all decide to dress and act like the different characters in it, and soon, it spreads througout the entire world. MoAhAaaHaa!

You pour hot water onto each and every pet you've got, and they actually change into people.

Being aquatranssexual/aquatranssformable doesn't seem so bad to you.

You drive your siblings NUTS with Ranma 1/2, since your room is cluttered with Ranma 1/2 memorabillia. e to change clothes in a flash the moment you are soaked in cold or hot water, although no one believes your reason for doing so. "I'm cursed by Jusenkyo, I swear! That's why I'm wearing this bra!"

Fox Mulder and Daina Scully from the X-Files make a cameo appearance on a Ranma 1/2 episode to explore the mysteries of Jusenkyo and the magical shape changers it created.

You can make your mouth as big as a watermelon, your tongue as long as a tapeworm, and eat food faster than the speed of light, so you never lose out during lunch break.

You begin to forget things so often, your grandfather has to give you megaton punches to make you remember him.

Hammers, kettles, buckets full of water and other weird things start appearing at your command from out of nowhere.

When you begin to think your friends can survive being punted into the stratosphere after being struck by lightning.

When your mother looks over your bookshelf and sees nothing but Ranma 1/2 mangas (happened to me *blink*)

When buckets of water strangely begin appearing at random spots around the house.

When you've got every damn episode ever aired on videotape (im close, i know i am, i watch way too much TV ;)

When someone asks you to name the 7 Lucky Gods and you start off with 'Kirin'

When you start kidnapping girls to partake in a contest for them to be a future bride, leaving peaches behind.

When your mother walks into the living room while you are watching TV and says 'No Ranma 1/2 today?' (Already happened to me *blink*)

You start a support group/ group therapy group for people with Jusenkyo curses.

You’re thinking of SWIMMING to China in order to save money from buying plane tickets to search for Jusenkyo. In fact, whenever your parents wants to vacation in somewhere far away, you’re first suggestion is : “Let’s swim there!”You don’t know how to swim, and can’t speak Chinese, and you still want to swim to China.You somehow ended up in China, and immediately ask a tour guide “Where is Jusenkyo?”, who just points you towards the nearest mental institution.When you begin to find Ranma-chan cute simply because she's really a boy.

Ranma Saotome himself sends you E-Mail from the web.

You refuse to get a boyfriend/girlfriend unless he/she looks exactly like you, only in the opposite sex.

Walking on fences, walls and tightropes becomes a habit of yours.

When someone challenges you to a fight and the first thing you yell is 'Kachuu-Tenshin-Amaguriken'

Your father teaches you how to prostrate yourself before someone and calls it the "Tiger lying down" (or something like that) skill.

One day, your mother comes back with a cloth-wrapped bundle and you scream, thinking it's a katana wrapped in cloth. And it turns out to be so.

Your father takes you on an 11 year training course around the world, promising your mother to raise you as a "Man-amongst-men", even if you are a girl.

You start selling your kids for food

You make a promise with an old friend to engage your children before they're old enough to protest.

You get out of the bathtub and see the girl you just became friends with walk in.

You add the words “Anything Goes Martial Arts” in front of all everyday activities, (i.e.: Martial Arts Breakfast, Martial Arts Going to School,etc.)You start calling your girlfriend "Kawaiikune" for no reason at all.

You fear the cooking done by your girlfriend.

You start calling your dad "Oyajii"

You throw chestnuts into your fireplace and tries to snatch them out without being burnt.

You keep trying and trying until you run out of chestnuts, or that you realize again that "fire hurts".

You keep trying look up "Dr. Tofu" in your yellow pages to treat your injuries.

You buy every cat in your community, and leave them inside a pit for days without food, and then jump inside the pit covered with fish products.

You wish you could learn how to turn bandannas and cloth belts into deadly weapons so no one would make fun of your dress code.

You start calling pet detectives to help you find a small, black pig with a bandanna around its neck.

Ryoga resembles Shizumaru from Samurai Showdown 3 to you. (She also wields an umbrella.)

You and your friends get lost in that new university you attended, and one of them asks you, "What now, Ryoga?"

That wall you prodded with a finger finally blows up in your face.

Your sister gets a small, black piglet for a pet, and asks you for a name, you call it "P-Chan", and when she isn't looking, pour hot water onto it, hoping it'll turn into Ryoga.

Umbrellas are you best friend. They stop you from changing, and you can fight with them.

You wonder why everyone whose surname is "Hibiki" isn't wearing a bandanna, isn't carrying a lead umbrella, or isn't hopelessly lost. (Dan Hibiki, SFZ2, and Kanzaki Hibiki, Macross 2.)

Your dentist comments on those marvelously sharp canines in your mouth.

You're lucky if you can find your way out of a house in a week.

You petition against the slaughter of black piglets.

Shishihokoudans are normal, everyday occurrences in your neighborhood everytime you get angry, sad, depressed or any of the above.

Maps become obsolete in your hands.

You had a childhood enemy who always stole your lunch, and now you've come back for revenge. If you could find your way back in the first place.

You get angry at someone every time he insults the girl you secretly love, but when you try to hunt him down to punish him you end up in .

Your English in class becomes incredibly bad, yet you think it's perfectly normal.

Guys start chasing you simply because you speak like their anime idol, Shampoo.

Cats begin to hold a certain fascination for you. Especially those with long locks of hair.

You attempt to be like Shampoo and wipe out anybody's memories of your girl/boyfriend with the 110-proof shampoo.

Chinese becomes your second language. (Only to those who apply.) Or at least, you learn how to say "Nihao!" and "Wo Ai Ni!" properly.

You threaten your male idol that if he doesn't kiss you, he doesn't get that instant nannichuan sachet.

You have a 100-year-old grandmother whose name is Cologne and is skilled in martial arts.

You never, ever, absolutely will not go out with anyone who has never defeated you in battle.

You get a short-sighted boy chasing you, mistaking your classmates for you.

You never use the doors, but break through walls instead.

Someone at a departmental store asks you, "Where's the Shampoo?" and you reply "Try the Joketsuzoku Amazon's Village in China.".

You tell your girlfriend that you want her to grow long hair, dye it purple and speak in bad English or excellent mandarin and she asks you "You had too much Ranma 1/2?" in a cute, high pitched voice, and you don't realize she already has long, purple hair tied in buns.

"2-in-1" shampoos bring a whole new meaning to your life.-

You find a strange, purple cat with two long locks of fur hanging from its head, with bells on them.

You start to avoid water like a cat, and avoid cats like.... Ranma.

When you start thinking that some lavender-haired cutie will run you over with a bicycle every time you walk out onto the street.

You train and train, and try to beat one of the Joketsuzoku amazons, because there’s no other way you can get a wife.Someone mentions the Mousse in Ranma, you wonder whether it's the dessert or the hair spray.You use the tapes to teach yourself martial arts.

Whenever you see a panda, you can't help but think of Genma.

You think Akane could kick Sailor Jupiter's butt no problem.

You spend hours wondering if Jusenkyo really exists.

This is who you think would be the best couples: Akane/Ranma, Ryoga/Ukyo,Shampoo/Mousse, Nabiki/Kuno, Kodachi/Sanzenin.

You get a restraining order against you for following Rumiko Takahashi around.

To hell with university, you're saving your money to buy every piece of Ranma merchandise out there!

You call Viz Communications to ask if they need a voice actress for an upcoming female part.

You have framed pictures of Ranma (guy type), some with no shirt on.

You're the only girl in your school (besides the Japanese exchange student) who likes Ranma 1/2.

You wish Ranma would let Ryoga or Kuno have Akane and come after you.

You wish you were a sixteen year old girl attending Furinkan High.

You ask Miyo if she can tell you if you and Ranma have a future together.

NASA calls you asking for your spectacles to rectify a lens error in the Hubble Telescope.

People start noticing strangely shaped bulges in your long-sleeved robe whenever you go out.

You hit people on the head with that swan-shaped potty you stuffed into your shirt and call it the "Strike of the swan fist."

You suffer from foot injuries after hiding hooks in your shoes.

You resent someone in school, you resort to wearing candles on your head, and slamming nails into little straw effigies of them, hoping that a little of Gosunkugi has rubbed off on you.

There's this guy you hate so much, you put a little straw effigy of him up on a tree and try to hammer a nail through the effigy and tree, but end up hurting your hand and being caught by the school authorities for possession of illegal weapons and trying to damage school property.

Your mom realizes that her eye shadow is missing, only to turn up under your eyes.

Because of those two candles on your head, you never fear a blackout, only the water sprinkler system going off in a shopping mall.

You begin to wonder, "Which is worse, Happosai or the Face Huggers from Aliens?".

When you start calling short people 'Happosai' i

Your neighborhood has an inexplicable crimewave of stolen panties and such, and the felon lives in your house.

There is this particular pigtailed, Chinese clothes wearing red-head you hang onto all the time. By the chest.

Everytime people see you, a mob of angry girls are never far behind.

Your great-grandmother is still very much alive and about a foot tall.

You beat people on the head with a wooden staff whenever they call you "Mummified Bat".

You love to wield giant spades because they look like Ukyo's spatulas.

You learn how to toss metal spatulas with pinpoint accuracy.

Your classmates see you carrying a frying surface to class everyday to cook them Okinomiyaki.

All your messages, letters, and homework assignments are done on Okinomiyakis.

Flour bombs are the norm of your daily attire.

No one believes your true gender until you flash your chest.

You think that Akane, Kasumi and Nabiki are perfect names for the three daughters you hope to have.

You start searching desperately around the world and web for an Anything Goes Martial Arts Dojo.

You begin to wonder whether Nabiki is working Paparazzi part time.

Having Akane for a girlfriend doesn't seem so bad. At least she can defend herself.

You have to beat up 50 boys who intercept you on the way to school wanting to defeat you so that they can marry you. On a daily basis.

When you begin to think your younger sister's cooking is toxic and should be used as a bio-chemical weapon.

You walk into the bathroom and find a strange guy you've never seen before.

You start carrying wooden swords (bokkens) in hopes of being like Tatewake Kuno, spouting bad poetry.

You try to get everyone to start calling you either Sempai or Blue Thunder, and beating them with a bokken if they don't.

You start thinking about Kodachi everytime you attend or watch over T.V a gymnastics tournament/competition.

You start wearing chinese clothes to school, sport a pigtail, and beat everyone up with your Tenshin Amaguriken attack, then end up in the Principal's Office to see your principal, who incidentally has a bonsai coconut tree growing out of his head and wears sunglasses all the time, wearing bad disguises.

You start carrying around thousands of black rose petals and tossing them around, laughing like a crazy fool.

You put every egg you see with a chinese/japanese character on it in a nest and on your head, hoping for a phoenix to appear.

You start wondering how it would feel to wear a post-box as a disguise and slamming into lamp posts. - Wong Si Yuan

Everytime you pass by something big enough to hold a person, you expect Tsubasa to pop up and start chasing you.

Cross-dressing becomes your daily way of life.

(If you're a girl) You visit the ice skating ring and get kissed by someone claiming to want to kiss 1000 girls as a goal after apologising for his partner's actions.

A girl who is that man's skating partner tries to steal something cute of yours and give it a french name.

When you open your house up as a part time museum of all things cute.

When you start thinking your younger sister would look good on ice skates wearing a pink frilly dress.

When you begin naming everything on the street that's cute and taking them home with you.

A new teacher resembling a child and named Miss Hinako Ninomiya comes into class to teach.

You suddenly start to feel weak after she takes out a coin and yells "Happo-Go-en-Satsu!" to stop you and your friend from fighting over whether Ukyo's name is spelled "Ukyo" or "Ukyou".

You try to find a small, childish girl with long black hair and ask her to teach you the Happo- Go-en-Satsu.

You expect the sexbomb teacher teaching your class to carry a fishbowl with a round metal rim and two siamese fighting fishes in it to class everyday.

Your medical advice for any open wound is "rub some moss or something in it".

You develop a severe phobia of people with big hips.

You spend too much of your time walking on fences.

When people annoy you you throw your hankies at them.

People are confused by the holes in the ground you keep jabbing your fingers into.

You shake every bucket of flakes you find to see if it'll explode.

You tackle and restrain everyone you see who wears a ribbon in their hair.

You refuse to turn your back on short old men.

You refuse to come within 100 yards of short old men with pipes.

Your gymnastics instructor complains about your constant "violent behavior".

You think carrying around a big wooden stick looks cool.

Whenever someone lifts up a spatula you say "watch where you point that thing!"

You paint your antique vases red, yellow and blue, hoping for a miracle.

You specifically check every buffet you find for chinese signs.

You have the knack of getting lost and ending up just where you want to be,but you dont realize it till the girl you like walks up and says hi.

You frequently get mad at your best friend and try kicking him into a low earth orbit with a swirling trail behind them.

You have mastered getting lost and suddenly bursting out of boulders as a new sport.

Every time you get mad at someone you stand on a house throw chains around his/her girlfreind/boyfriend and hold them hostage pending a fight

You ACTUALLY ACOMPLISH a hiryu shoten ha during a street fight

When running to school there is always an old woman throwing water on the street

Every time you see a womans undergarment you say SWEETO!!!(this also works if the woman is in the undergarment at the time as well)

You start asking the psycho girl who like gymnastics and is in love with you from your class if she will start stalking you just so you feel more like Ranma.

The several girls who are in love with you starts attacking each other and you becuase they are jelous.

Any time you go to a farm you insist on painting a piglet black, giveing it a bandana and calling it P-chan.

You refuse to get into a pool/bathtub saying that you might instantly turn into a boy/girl.

You carefuly examine anyone with red hair.then splash cold and hot water on them and watch the results.

When ever you see a female,brown-haired teacher take out a coin you scream "Miss Ninomiya!" and hide.

You buy any spatula in sight.

If anyone says the word "mousse," you scream "Where?!?"

Your parents demand that you use the door from now on.

You look on a map of China for Jusenkyo, and find it.

Better yet, you put Jusenkyo on a map of China.

Ask your boy/girlfrend if he/she is relly a she/he (confusing isnt it?;)

Before you go swimming, demand to know if the water is cursed.

If they say yes, your the first one in.

You worship your collectors box set.

You open an "Anything-goes Martial arts"; school.

You stay as far away as possible from old folks homes.

If your dad turns into a panda, you understand why.

You hide from people with umbrellas.

If you see some people (led by a guy wearing a bandana) at a university who are hopelessly lost you understand.

If anyone calls you Rygoa you instantly smack them with your umbrella.

You carefully watch anyone with a spatula.

You learn fractions only because 1/2 is one of them.

You learn not to wear candles on your head because your hair might catch on fire.

You have a strange attraction to black rose petals.