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.
Innuendo poking fun at the cast of Dark Shadows? Today, it's common knowledge that the cast was gay (the show has been called "the gayest in television history," and the scene in which Count Petofi mourns the death of his unicorn has been called "possibly the gayest thing in all of human history"). Back in the day, however, the lines collected in these stills would have sounded subtler than they do now.
We, too, don't know and don't know anything, but all we know is that we must find a way, and we must do it within these next three days. From Dark Shadows episode 1114.