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.
We thought this pigeon was triumphantly flying through confetti on New Year's Eve. Alas, the dots represent ammunition. We're worried that this pigeon did not make it to the New Year. From Letters to Young Shooters by Ralph Payne-Gallwey, 1895.
Considering the source of this image, we don't think the partridge in the middle is going to make it. From Letters to Young Shooters by Ralph Payne-Gallwey, 1895.