Hum, ideas for an agency or just a drop box for some to send their needs for help? An idea for a new TV program or for an agency in a low power game?
A referal service for a real agency or someone who uses the letters to solve things or what? A letter drop service, much like writing to North Pole Alaska and wanting Santa Clause to give them gifts. But instead the parents are told what their kid wants, or a group like "Make a Wish" do what they can to help the writer? Mike -------------- >From Norm Hinton: A little more on Holmes -- a bank occupied the block in which Holmes' 221B Baker Street would have been found, had it existed. The bank got so much mail addressed to Mr. SHelock Holmes that it hired a secrtetary to deal with it. Here are some of her reminiscence about having been,as it were, Sherlock Holmes' secretary: > ''Mr. Holmes has been asked to help with Watergate and > Irangate, to solve the murder of Olaf Palme, the Swedish Prime Minister, and find lost homework to prove to the teacher that the student really did it. ''Many people don't ask for anything in particular. They just want to know what Mr. Holmes is doing now or where he is and they hope he is well. And many people know he's not real and write tongue in cheek. But some people haven't worked it out. The stories were written in the late 1800's and early 1900's and Mr. Holmes would be 136 years old now, so it's unlikely that he'd still be living here.'' > Letters sometimes call for personal responses. A voter in the > United States wrote last ar that he was frustrated by what he viewed as ''incompetent'' Presidential candidates, said Miss Caparn, and called on the investigator to ''come and do the job himself.'' > > The secretary wrote back that Mr. Holmes appreciated the offer > and the fact that the United States had looked to England for a leader but, alas, he was too old to travel. One man wrote that the only dispute he and his wife had ever had was over whether Sherlock Holmes had actually existed. The writer wanted the argument settled, even if it ended in divorce. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
