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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-4-2007 05:34

LOL SS... we knew Shanghi was not going to be the right choice for our agency when I totally could not find the suspect I wanted to accuse on my list. :)
The problem? Well, was also IM chatting with another agent in our agency who's standard response to a question is "yup." .... Yup you got it, I was searching the Yue's and Yans for a Yup! (hey seemed like a perfectly normal name here with the others).

Jan-4-2007 05:37

Right there, SS, is exactly why I got my last FA. Two bloody Huan Yues, and I accused the wrong one. Blah.

Jan-4-2007 05:38

Regarding real life names and the the horrible things parents do with their children's names... when working in medical records at a large hospital doing birth certificates I actually had parents who named their twins Boot and Bunker. Any guesses on the last name? Yup, Hill it is. :( How awful is that?

Jan-4-2007 08:50

I've had a case where the admin was a suspect... yeah... Ben Ringold... funny huh?

Jan-4-2007 14:13

It's when I get names like Yan Yan and Yin Yan that I start to have problems.

Jan-4-2007 14:28

I got a FA with two suspects (samidh and samridh) and they had the same last name.

Jan-7-2007 14:02

Oscar Meyer, I had a similar problem in Shanghai. With three people with names like Yue You, You Yue, and Yu Yue or Lei Du and Li Du, I find myself second and third checking names before doing anything.

Jan-7-2007 17:23

It also bugs me that I can't tell if they're male or female, sometimes they're both!

Jan-7-2007 22:56

regarding real life names, I had a teacher who had two twins called black and blue. They had an older brother named boysen and a younger sister named raz. There last name of course were Berry. Cruel isn't it.

Jan-8-2007 03:26

Mu Miao... ?

I was half expecting Baa Woof as my next suspect...