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.
Here is revealed the main telephone exchange of the conscious mind and the power station of the sub-conscious mind, from Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by George Robinson Skillman, 1919.
This is just to confirm that every haunted chamber should feature at least one "ghost closet" (see upstage center). Our diagram appears in Grace Griswold's The Haunted Chamber: A Romantic Comedy in One Act (1921). To design your own haunted chamber, see our guide to Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
Here we learn that taking a holiday will break the vicious circle of poverty, impaired health, and low wages. From Vicious Circles in Sociology and Their Treatment by Jamieson Boyd Hurry, 1915.
Here's what Old MacDonald's famous "E-I-E-I-O" looks like, and now you know what it is: the rhythmic cycle of activity and rest that comes with maintaining an independent farm or ranch. Our diagram appears in Eight Lectures on the Signs of Life From Their Electrical Aspect by Augustus Désiré Waller, 1903.