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.
This photograph may be used to orient the etheric body toward the akashic library. However, it should not be used during near-death experiences. From the Cape Cod yearbook, 1964.
This haunted photo appears in the University of Rhode Island's yearbook of 1997. Why are glowing lights so ghostly? We explored the answer in the context of this other ghostly photo.
"The non-conformist scientific hand." The caption doesn't identify this as the hand of a non-conforming, scientific person but rather suggests that the hand itself is a non-conforming scientist. From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.
"And thinking back about times gone by … the beginning and the end seem only small projections in time." This photograph may be used to faciliate time travel. From Taylor's 1973 yearbook.
Twenty of their faces are more than partially obscured. Our guess is that it took so long to set up the shot that nobody even cared at that point. From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1923 yearbook.
Always dress like you're going somewhere better later (a tip we learned from our dearly departed magic teacher, Eugene Burger). From Salem's 1989 yearbook.