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.
Though the context is extraterrestrials, this sounds like some parties we've been to here on earth. "They were nice; they said relax ... Later, one particular being was not so nice." From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
It's only the two-eyed people that we're socially uncomfortable with. "The visit of a two-eyed child," from the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
Humpty Dumpty cries over hearing a nonsense song. Imagine how unbearably miserable, how out of place he must have felt in Wonderland, what a stranger he was in a strange land. From The Roly-Poly Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.