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Jan-19-2006 00:47

ummm k. i really hope this is the place to talk about anything related to SLEUTH, like the sign said, cuz this is pretty random.

anyhow -with all due respect to the maker's efforts to maintain the feeling of the time period being reproduced- it strikes me as funny that in the 8 or so weeks that i've been playing this game, i have NEVER encountered ANYONE named either john or mary

and yet on the other hand I am routinely interrogating people named like Girish Yelverton.

*goes back in time to the roaring twenties and prevents and angry hood wearing mob from harrassing the union of a south asian lass with a very WASPy-type gentleman*

hee hee go periodicy.

Jan-25-2006 04:54

I saw suspects name spelled "Hu Tu Du" which to me the name reads like WHO TO DO!
I have had others with the same type of spelled like but reads like deals

Mar-20-2006 20:57

My full name is:
May-Christina Geasley Scherping

Would love to see that pop up as a suspect some time....

:-)

Mar-20-2006 21:59

LOL

cruchpatty,
I know what you mean about details that halt one's immersion into the time period. One niggling little thing that always bothered me was the prices of stuff.

for example: In 1929, the real world Model T automobile cost $850 dollars. In sleuth - a pair of brown and white wing tip shoes costs ... $3,500 !?! And you don't want to know just how much I paid for my sequined dress.

Mar-20-2006 22:03

Ack - Actually the model-T dropped in price to around $300 dollars in the mid 1920s. so it's even worse than I thought!

Mar-21-2006 01:00

*agrees with Shanty*

now...on the other hand, having BOTH an 'Ananda' an 'Amanda' AND a 'Hari' and a 'Hara' in the same case...yeah, that's just walletfuel for Shady.

Mar-21-2006 01:08

ooh, (glee) I didn't see the second page of this before posting that.

k first off...111 days old now...still no John or Mary.

Roxy, you've got me exactly. Now, if the truck of the car was filled with bootlegged shriveled monkey paws...that'd be different.

Mar-21-2006 08:54

It's dyslexia setting in when you have cases with Bing, Jing, Qing, Ting and throw in a Yue-Yue and Yue-You, not forgetting Nu Shu, Xu Shu etc..
And then after spending loads of time being extra careful with the names you find the guilty person is normally Warrick or Susannah :)

Mar-29-2006 01:53

I don't know if this counts or not, but I ran into a suspect today whose parents obviously had a sick sense of humor. I had the pleasure today of crossing paths with...

Martin Martin.

Apr-2-2006 17:42

Its sarngte taht its so esay to udresnatnd tihs ins't it?

Apr-2-2006 22:45

the only time i had a big problem with names was once in shanghai i had an aunt and a cousin with exactly the same name, that was confusing