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.
"She thought the water was cleaner in the past and had only turned bad recently, although she didn't know where she had gotten this idea" (Robert Williams, Peculiar, MO, 2007). Well, here's one place she might have gotten that idea. From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
How true those words are, even today. "Throw out your politicians and diplomats." From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
It's an awful thing to have your LP collection stolen by a vindictive ex. As And One sings in the final line of "Tonight," "Please bring back my CD-collection of Depeche Mode." From The Film Daily, 1946.