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 the character Number Six making a "Be seeing you" hand gesture in the cult TV series The Prisoner. "Adios" is a Spanish equivalent to "Be seeing you," and this Mexican No. 6's hand gesture seems preliminary to the "Be seeing you" sign. From Face to Face with the Mexicans by Fanny Chambers Gooch, 1890. [For The Unmutual Prisoner News Website.]