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.
Before "Netflix and chill," there was Netflix and CHILI!
They'll eat Mexican food and watch a zombie movie with you, but they charge $1.50 (which is equivalent to $4.71 today). From Western Carolina's 1980 yearbook.
A rarely admitted outrage of higher education: you've seen those college pennants, but did you know that coeds go unclothed just so dormitory walls can be decorated? From Greensboro's 1926 yearbook.
This detail of a photograph in a Philadelphia yearbook, 1968, has clearly captured a being from the Otherworld. We've identified this creature as the long-nosed seducer demon Zanni (of Harlequin mask fame).
It looks like the reflected sign below the clocks says "colon room," and for our purposes that's auspicious, for the colon in a modern clock brings the digital realm to the analog one pictured. Yes, this is a time travel device. For vital instructions on how to use these sorts of photos for mystical ends, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
This time-bending photograph is from Lambuth's 1977 yearbook.
It's a silly pastime of ours to wonder about the books people are reading in old photos. This student is reading Allen Drury's A Senate Journal, 1943-1945, which came out just before this yearbook was published. From Colorado College's 1964 yearbook.