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.
Though the clown of hearts likes it, the jester seems unsure that the spelling of "jokes" is funny. "Joshes, joaks, & jyngles." From Kansas State's 1907 yearbook.
Few ever bother to ask how anyone knew for certain that the mouse ran up the clock in the old nursery rhyme. It turns out that there were three witnesses. From Mother Goose Secrets by Barbara Webb Bourjaily, 1925.
This seems to be saying that if one is made invisible by light rays bent around oneself, one will not be able to see anything beyond oneself. From Wonder Stories Quarterly, Sept. 1930.