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.
Story of our lives -- you try to take a group shot, but only the costumed character notices the camera. Plus, in answer to your, "Say cheese!" the costumed character invariably says a very different word. From Memphis State's 1963 yearbook.
At first glance we assumed these were giant, walking bowling pins with whiskers, newly graduated. It's Al Capp's Schmoo, from William and Mary's 1949 yearbook.
We analyzed this photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app, and it turns out that these are two divisions of the soul upon death—the "good genius" and the "simultaneously-born demon" (as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead). From Anderson's 1977 yearbook.