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.
Though it's impossible to see him due to his clever camouflage, there's a brickmason in each of these photographs. From Frankfort Pilgrim College's 1949 yearbook.
This is so typical of the disgusting anthropomorphism rampant in these old magazines. They quote a hedgehog as saying, "We are very fat and lazy." From Chatterbox, 1908.
"If you are like a lot of your friends then you might be an authentic snob. You think you are 'enlightened, tolerant, and more or less groovy.'" From The Gateway, 1969.