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.
"Dark light promises way to talk with Mars." We, too, use dark light to talk with Mars. Therefore, this is one of the very few Popular Mechanics headlines we can vouch for. From 1932. Also, we always use dark light when painting with the "minus colors" from this other weird headline.
"In the middle of the night, when the griffin was snoring away lustily, Jack reached up and pulled a feather out of his tail." From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 1916.
You've heard of a bearded clam, but here's a mustachioed oyster. "The gift that fell from heaven." From Stories in Precious Stones by Helen Zimmern, 1873.
It's been said (if only once, according to Google) that no one can read a blank book. Donna proves the lie in that. Here she is, reading our blank book entitled Let's Do and Say We Didn't.