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names you encounter = strange
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crunchpatty
Old Shoe
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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.
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Roxy Rosenthal
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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.
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Roxy Rosenthal
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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!
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crunchpatty
Old Shoe
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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.
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crunchpatty
Old Shoe
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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.
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Carl Kershaw
Old Shoe
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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 :)
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Serges
Vigilante
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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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sonic3535
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Apr-2-2006 17:42
Its sarngte taht its so esay to udresnatnd tihs ins't it?
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woody1
Well-Connected
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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
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Isabel S. Abbott
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Apr-5-2006 16:54
No, what I find odd, is the weird motives... like, the best friend of the victim utterly despises them? What's up with that?
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crunchpatty
Old Shoe
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Apr-6-2006 00:40
LMAO Serges, I had a run-in with the ill-named Martin Martin too! I was all "oh snap, I gotta remember this for the weird names thread". Lol, I actually have an aunt whose name is Paula Paul (best argument ever for not taking your husbands name, ladies).
I will personally mail one chocolate-chip cookie (complete with certificate of authenticity) to the first person who has a suspect named John or Mary.
In other weird names news, I had a case with a Ruby, a Pearl, and an Amenthyst as suspects. That's when I quit sleuthing and opened a jewelery store.
(Badda-bing)
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