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.
"Then he set about telling me of the beautiful gold and silver ware they use in the Elysian Fields," from Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others by John Kendrick Bangs, 1898.
In Scotland (whether or not at Loch Ness), sometimes you see only the head of a beast, but sometimes (as in this Pictish stone at Gairloch) it's the head that's invisble.
This is utter bullshit and the perfect example of my horror (not too strong a word) of the cold, soulless mentality of white-coat scientists (whom Robert Anton Wilson dubbed the New Inquisition). From Popular Mechanics, 1924.
This can actually happen. When Hurricane Matthew destoyed my home last October, a case of alcohol washed into my yard. The garbage man asked if he could have it, so I gave it to him. From an ad in Jugend, 1910.