Hah. Another case where the author gets it wrong, then: (URL - Wikipedia) syntax is entirely independent of HTTP or any other specific protocol it can specify.
I’ve had a couple of the Danny Dunn books as well: The Homework Machine, The Smallifying Machine and the one where they accidentally end up in space.
Man I loved these books as a kid. It was a joy to discover that Donald Sobol was still alive and writing when my own son was born. I was delighted that my son enjoyed those mysteries as much as I did. Thank you and RIP , Mr. Sobol.
Just posted on EBay:
**"Dear Friends and Fellow Encyclopedia Brown Fans:
If you loved Leroy “Encyclopedia” as much as I did, you’ll definitely want this valuable collectable item: a letter written and signed by the Great Detective himself. It reads:**
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June 31, 1970
Dear Sally,
Thank you so much for your invaluable assistance in foiling Bug's Meany's latest scheme.
Sincerely,
Leroy."
***I know fans will gladly pay a lot of money for such a find! How much will you bid?
-Wilfrid Wiggins**
How Does Astorian Know the Letter Is a Fake?
Because I have the original letter. I got it in exchange for 10 pregnant Monarch caterpillars. And you got the date wrong – it’s actually February 29, 1900.
Because Encyclopedia never went by his given name. Only his parents called him “Leroy”.
"You call me names,
my strength you doubt.
Now pardon me
while I knock you out!"
Wow, did you just give me a memory shiver. I loved Alvin Fernald (“Superweasel!”) when I was a kid, and none of my adult friends remembers those books. I think I read the story about pollution, where he and his gang put polluted water into a recirculating fountain in the lobby of the offending corporation, and the one about cryptography.
As far as EB, he’s the reason I know an upside-down American flag is a distress signal and that people don’t necessarily fall backwards when they faint.
I actually solved the First Battle of Bull Run sword mystery without having to look at the answer; but I got the solution from the wrong clue. I was a Civil War nut then, and I knew Confederate soldiers called it “The Battle of Manassas”. When I turned to Sobol’s more logical solution - soldiers wouldn’t have called it the First Battle of Whichever until after the Second had occurred - I experienced the first of many face-palms in my life.
There was an unsuccessful series starring Encyclopedia’s dad, called Whodoughnut…
Easy. Encyclopedia Brown always used apostrophes correctly.
I used to love those books, but I remember thinking the solutions were getting lame as I started to grow out of them. In one story, EB knew Bugs was lying based on the fact that Bugs put his mustard on top of the sauerkraut when assembling his hot dog.
“No one who like hot dogs does that.”
What a sad day that was.
I just had an Encyclopedia Brown moment this morning. My wife was trying to buy helium balloons for my daughter’s birthday. The store she went to was out of helium, and the sales clerk told her “There was a big helium tank explosion, causing a shortage.”
How did muldoonthief know the sales clerk was lying?
Helium is an intert gas and won’t explode.
No … but the tank could have been pressurized beyond the limits of its structural integrity. :rolleyes:
I was looking at a newer edition of an EB book last night and was surprised to learn that the answers in the back are no longer in mirror image type. That was always part of the fun, at least with the editions that were out when I was a kid.
Yay! Someone got one of my jokes!
He wasn’t talking like Donald Duck?