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.
You've seen the innuendo of a train entering a tunnel. Apparently, some folks take those "personal railroads" literally. "This is a personal railroad matter between me and Mr. Gregory." From Pearson's, 1910.
Here's a rather mind-blowing precursor to Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Both of the top images are from the same page of Le Rire, Sept. 26, 1903.
This is eerily similar to how my own authorship is inspired, though I've not yet captured photographic evidence. "The Fairy Queen about to inspire the Author." From The Kingdom of the Good Fairies by Adrienne Roucolle, 1898.