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First one: You know how sometimes on Friday you say, "I've got to turn this in tomorrow" about a school assignment that's due Monday? You accidentally talk about the next school day as if it was the next day? Yeah.
Still, it works for me. THe pedant in me is satisfied. Better than the "it's physically impossible to get a knife out of your left trouser pocket with your right hand while running".
Velma Brown was the younger sister of Leroy Brown. Leroy Brown was more widely known as Encyclopedia Brown, the accounts of his exploits suffered from the same near sightedness as his sister and the details of his family were whitewashed. (16) Velma was never mentioned in the series primarily because the author and publisher thought that having a younger sister would detract the focus off of Leroy. Their father was the chief of police in "Idaville" a small Southern Florida Coastal town with a mixed population of mostly African-American, Hispanic and Caucasian with a smattering of Asian peoples. It was mostly a peaceful town, although human nature being what it is, it did have a moderate amount of crime.
Young Leroy Brown, who traced his lineage back to the Claytons, was one of those rare individuals who was a page at a glance reader with a photographic memory. When this was coupled with logical and intuitive deductive reasoning, he was a force to be reckoned with so far as solving crimes was concerned. Although the claim that no crime went unsolved in Idaville was a bit of hyperbole, he did have a rather astonishing success rate.
Velma had the same abilities as Leroy although to a lesser extent, while her memory was very good it was not photographic. Both Leroy and she studied Judo at the Idaville Judo Center.
Their father was Herman Brown whose father Cosmo Brown had been a song and dance man working in the waning days of vaudeville and in the early days of motion pictures.(17) Herman also had an older half sister whom he seldom saw, Mary Kay Brown, she was one of the girl fridays of the A-1 Detective Agency. (18) Herman barely knew his father and grew up fairly independent. Herman became interested in law enforcement while studying at Colombia University in New York. It was here that he met Lillian Finn, a young journalism student. Lillian went out with Herman only reluctantly. On her first date she took him to meet her parents. James Finn was a New York police officer stationed in Harlem, he was also most definitely African-American. His wife was Vivian Archer, the sister of Harlem's prominent physician, Dr. John Archer. (19) Vivian was a nurse at the hospital most frequented by African-Americans. Lillian was light enough to pass for white but tanned enough to look slightly Hispanic. She was often accused of trying to pass, but felt that she should not have to advertise her ethnicity, if people chose to make certain assumptions based on her skin color then that was their fault not hers.
Herman Brown was more shocked at James Finn's family history than by his skin color. James and so Lillian was a descendent of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, the slave Jim, John Henry, Uncle Tom and it was rumored the pirate Laffitte.(20)
Lillian Finn and Herman Brown were married in New York City in late 1948. He took a job with the New York City Police Department. He inherited a small piece of property from his mother in Idaville in 1950. They decided to move to the small town, feeling that it would be a better place to raise a family. Herman took a job with the Idaville police department. Their son Leroy b. 1949. was like his mother, from all appearances Caucasian. Their daughter Velma on the other hand was a shade darker than her mother and had features which if examined very closely had distinct African-American characteristics. Had Idaville not been as racially mixed this might have done more than raise a few eyebrows. It may in fact have prevented Herman from rising through the ranks of the small police force to become Chief of Police.
Leroy Brown had been recruited by a CIA think tank in 1974. Despite being nearly killed by a rogue assassination team, (21) Leroy Brown's analysis of reading materials from around the world, allowed him to pinpoint and predict various geo-political crises which when properly manipulated did more to end the cold war than diplomacy and military threats.
like i guess they had to do it that way, the alphabet isn't divisible by 3
just feels awkward, s is a letter you use a lot
idk, just one of life's little irritations, for me
that never even occurred to me