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.
From a bullsh*t article (the entire magazine is bullsh*t) about how big science is about to eradicate the grim reaper. We're still waiting, big science! From Illustrated World, 1922.
This is like those "prove you're not a robot" tests in which you have to choose all the Jesuses but none of the churches. From They Like Jesus But Not the Church by Dan Kimball.
"When an object is flying toward you, you turn your head away at once. This reflex action protects you from danger" (Boleslaus and Munch, Science for a Changing World, 1967).