CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Truth be told, we're still trying to fit into the postwar world, and plastics frankly haven't been the answer we hoped they'd be. From Mechanix Illustrated, May 1945.
What a way to end a story, with the one thing left in the world changing like a kaleidoscope (as the one thing left is wont to do). From Harpers, 1932.
In our experience, it's easier to rhyme streets at 3 a.m. than it is to rhyme streets with "three a.m." From the apparently quite rareA Street That Rhymed At 3AM by Mark Timlin.
Long before the U.S. military's "remote viewing" program, occultists had perfected the technique. From A Manual of Occultism by Sepharial, 1914. See our video about how to accomplish remote viewing at home.
"What frightens me is the terrible feeling it's going to happen to us again. Some incredible horror that none of us knows anything about yet." From Dark Shadows episode 1118.