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.
Did you hear that director Terry Gilliam is going to film a sequel to one of his old movies, and that he's going to deliberately ruin the film stock so as to gain special sympathy from the media? The film will be entitled "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen By Proxy."
The publicist for that bedsheets firm just got sacked.
Apparently, she had made too many blanket statements. There are
whispers of a king-sized money laundering scheme that would have folded
the company and taken everyone to the cleaners. Police are
already on the case, and the details are being ironed out. (It's
a royal case of mistaken identities, because she's a twin, you
see.) Her career shouldn't be affected: she's already turned down
one offer.
Did you hear the one I just made up about the post office? Everybody
knows that you can send letters to Santa Claus. But did you know that
the post office also handles letters addressed to Satan? Alas, those
letters always come back, marked "Return to Cinder."