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.
The keen-eyed will detect Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in the foreground. Reblog if more photos should feature Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in the foreground. From Seton Hall's 1969 yearbook.
"Perhaps there are but two witches in the world, who are born into it again and again" (Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator). From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.
It would be more disturbing to encounter scary clowns in old yearbooks if old yearbooks didn't already frighten us so very much. From William and Mary's 1974 yearbook.
INSTRUCTIONS: Here are three ghosts. Click to see a slightly less ghostly version of the same photo that appeared on the same page. From the Washington and Lee yearbook of 1984.
You've heard the expression that someone looks like she "just stepped out of a painting." Here's the first photo we've encountered of the phenomenon in action. From Butler's 1962 yearbook.