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crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

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.

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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-20-2006 09:14

Heheh, like your det name. :)

ichiban
ichiban
Well-Connected

Jan-25-2006 04:42


Secret_Squirrel Not in theory but -"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig huh?"


ichiban
ichiban
Well-Connected

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

Chrysalis
Chrysalis

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....

:-)

Roxy Rosenthal
Roxy Rosenthal

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.


Roxy Rosenthal
Roxy Rosenthal

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!

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

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.

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

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.

Carl Kershaw
Carl Kershaw
Old Shoe

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 :)

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

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.

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