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.
Temporal anomaly investigator Linda De Volder reports that "many of the Maltese churches [like this one, St Joseph's] have two clocks, showing different times. We were told one shows the correct time for the religious locals, while the other shows the wrong time to confuse Satan from disturbing the mass. Sometimes the second clock is not even real but a very good likeness painted on the church. Or the hands on the fake clock are missing."
"Living in dread. That anxious feeling of impending doom. One continuous string of weakness, nervousness amd woe." From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1897.