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.
Wikipedia claims that the fad of phonebooth stuffing was passé by the end of 1959, but here it is in 1989. WTF, Wikipedia? From Eastern Kentucky's 1989 yearbook.
They don't write TV shows this way anymore. Spoken to a severed hand that was stolen from the king of the gypsies: "Released by the guardians of the chains and blessed by the custodians of the twelve days." The twelve days of Christmas?
The setting mapped on the endpapers is even divided into acres, as in "the Hundred Acre Wood," in this rather blatant "tribute" to Winnie the Pooh, two decades later. We decoded the young reader's squiggle. It says, "Christopher Robin did it first." From Poo and the Baby Bunny Rabbit by Edwin Megargee, 1947.
The entire audience is led by the hand into Fairyland at the end of "God Pan Forgotten." From The Magic Sea Shell and Other Plays for Children by John Farrar, 1923.