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.
"Ducks don't eat sticks" is, to this very day, a Googlewhack. Hence all the futile attempts to feed ducks sticks through the decades. From Swarthmore's 1973 yearbook.
This photo is unexplained in the yearbook. You may not wish to enlarge the photo to see his ghostly eyes. We tried to narrow down the model of typewriter he's holding … presumably an Underwood, though the lip on the back seems too pronounced. From Swarthmore's 1912 yearbook.
We wondered whether a ball of twine ever wrote its autobiography. One actually did in 1912. The opening words are, "I am a ball of twine." Our photo is from Susquehanna's 1973 yearbook.
Here's a photographer who somehow fell behind his own footprints and photographed them. We've had a similar experience, though we eerily encountered our footprints going the other direction. From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.