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.
"The sceptical and distrustful hands." What we like about this, of course, is that the caption doesn't say, "A sceptical and distrustful person's hands" but rather ascribes the doubting to the hands themselves. From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.
Nice Mona Lisa smile! From Greensboro's 1966 yearbook. See our previous proof that the craters of the moon line up exactly with the Mona Lisa's facial features.
"Smile because you are uprooting what undermines you and replacing it with what uplifts you" (Shoshana Bennett, 2014). From Queens College's 1969 yearbook.