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.
The Kalidahs have the bodies of bears and the heads of tigers. An illustration by W. W. Denslow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1900.
Wrongdoing is now so expensive that many wrongdoers cannot afford even necessary wrongdoing, and married wrongdoers are having to move in with multiple wrongdoing roommates. From The Link, 1960.