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.
Thanks to home-recording pioneer Ken Clinger, who wrote:
I unfortunately let my canary watch this video. It ended up cheating at canasta by flying back and forth on its portable international dateline (to thwart other canasta players’ previous moves) by distracting them with a disturbingly long mustache, while wearing “antlers” made from a skeleton hand, while demanding that its picture be taken. This was the beginning of my own desperate times, which I hope to get past (but into the future), by using several portable international datelines lined up in a row.