Re: Writer needs info on burglar alarms

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Tim Walters" <tim.walters@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > There no need for space when you deal with fictional writing. Let their
> > imagination do the rest.
>
>
> I think this depends on the readership one is writing for.
>
> I remember seeing a 1980s film set in occupied Germany in the period
> immediately after the end of the war. It was a British production, so I
was
> expecting reasonably high standards of historical accuracy. In one scene,
a
> village inhabitant walks into a tobacconist's shop, asks for a packet of
> twenty Camels, pays for them, and walks out.
>
> Anything wrong with that?
>
> Only that in Germany, up until the currency reform of 1948, Camels didn't
> COST money; they WERE money. You know the sort of thing: a blow job = 1/2
> cigarette; 1 lb of butter = 2.5, etc.
>
> My imagination couldn't get around that fact, so I just couldn't swallow
the
> story.

That would cost a whole camel.......errr...never mind.....