Cool tie! At first I thought you meant the one worn by the
guy on the first page.
Anyway, they're selling here for $349.95: http://www.pimall.com/NAIS/tietek.html
Billed as "Fine concealed design for totally unawareness from
the outlook closely."
They're not word people.
Karin
At 05:17 PM 11/08/2006 -0400, Joy wrote:
> As far as I can tell, mostly insurance work of
various kinds,
>pre-employment checks, sweeps against bugs, although
occasionally the
>newspaper mentions a PI on a criminal case. Look for
yourself what they
>offer in a small U.S. state capital:
> Here's the three pages of Pennsylvania state
listings for a PI trade
>group: http://www.pimall.com/NAIS/d-pa.html.
> Mostly workers' comp surveillance, according to this
local article:
>
http://www.centralpa.org/archives/01may3detectives.html.
> Here's the website of an outfit with a handsome
street-level office on
>restaurant row (and near the state capitol); check
out the picture of the
>camera tie: http://www.gittingspi.com/pages/1/index.htm,
so certainly they
>have offices, if not the stereotype.
>Joy
>
>
>Jacques Debierue asked:
>> What exactly does the real present-day PI do?
Surely he can't be doing
>> much "divorce work", or chasing the proverbial
"missing daughter"?
>> Does he even drink or want to? Does he have or
need an office, or does
>> he work from home and his SUV? Who hires
him?
>>
>> I ask these things because life has changed so
much since the classic
>> era of the PI with bottle, pretty and/or
motherly secretary, hostile
>> cops (except for one who remains grudgingly
loyal), etc. etc.
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