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.
"I will soon make you almost as beautiful as I am myself." (Note the "Before and After" poster on the wall.) From The Voyage of the Wishbone Boat by Alice C. D. Riley, 1906.
Temporal anomaly investigator William Murphy notes that he 1867 Tait clock tower in Limerick does not keep time ... but we might prefer to say that the clock is "stuck" on an eternal four thirty and that it is indeed correct twice a day.
A book dead-icated to all the cats that ever meowed on this or any sphere, from the beginning of time till now, to all cats still to come, to the nine ghosts of departed cats and their relatives, and to all who like some sort of cat. From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.