> > > I read *all* those books when I was a kid. They were great. Looking back, though, I probably would have ended up killing Joe if I'd hung out with somebody like him.
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> > > Brunnen-"I wanted to go around solving mysteries but I could never find any that were exciting enough"G
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> > I read as many of them as I could find. I don't remember a "Joe", unless that's Bugs's "real" name. I know Leroy is Encyclopedia's "real" name.
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> > Nyper"watching Encyclopedia Brown's One-Minute Mysteries on video rules... if you need more time, just pause it. ;-)" old
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> There was, wasn't there? Wasn't he the drippy one who always thought things were going to go wrong? Arghh. Now I'm going to be awake all night wondering about this. I'm 99.99% sure there was a Joe. Wasn't there? Am I thinking of some completely different series of books? Let me check my notes ...
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> Brunnen-"plagued by self-doubt"G

...OK, I checked 'em. Good old Yahoo. I was thinking of Danny Dunn, not Encyclopedia Brown. Danny was the one with the drippy friend called Joe.

Brunnen-"but I *did* read all the Encyclopedia Brown books too"G