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 Don Harder spotted these disagreeing clocks at the JC Deagan Building, North Centre, Chicago. It's never one o'clock on the left.
Temporal anomaly investigator Jordan Green shares a Before & After of an anomalous clock tower whose statue lost a sword. "On April 3, 2013 the statute on top of the Blue Earth County Courthouse [Mankato, Minnesota] turned to the north by about a 1/4 turn and dropped its sword into the courthouse lawn."
Temporal anomaly investigator Plbmak spotted this time warp at the Majestic cinema in Kings Lynn, England. The anomaly, of course, is courtesy of the timelessness of film. As film critic Vertigo's Psycho has said, "due to the timelessness of film, I can still pass many hours transfixed."
Temporal anomaly investigator ML Ayers shares these mismatched clocks from Malta, designed to confuse the Devil but with the bonus of telling the day of the week and day of the month.
"A class in American literature: 'So this distance is 18 6/13 after eight— it comes out 13ths instead of 11ths— I've never worked this problem before!" From Winthrop College's 1932 yearbook.