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's a precursor to Ryan O'Neal's "I'm upside down" in What's Up Doc? It's an upside down "What's up" sign. Photo courtesy of the Stanford Historical Archive.
"Many think that Egypt is upside down [because the Nile flows from south to north]" (Marci Haines, Ancient Egypt). And it's true. Our photographic proof is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.
You've heard that Australia is upside down. Even if the earth isn't a globe, Australia is still upside down, as proven by this flat earth map from 1893. Here's a larger view of the map over at Wikimedia.
There's only one picture on the internet of a badger on bamboo, and that picture was printed upside down in its source -- Young Americans in Japan by Edward Greey, 1882.