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.
You've heard the slogan, "Say it with flowers." But did you know that with every flower you pick, you're forming a word? How many flowers have died for unconsidered blathering? From the High Point yearbook of 1971.
Dolores Moran's contract stipulated that she would never display 3:45 or 9:15. As Paris Hilton discovered, there's no turning back times one later regrets. From Cine-Mundial, 1944.
A giant orb of light by a snowy tree. To demystify it, as Scott Neustadter has said, would merely disappoint those of us who love not knowing. From West Virginia Wesleyan's yearbook of 1965.
We thought this was a streetlight, but the caption identifies it as the setting sun through a gap in the trees. This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From Sweet Briar's yearbook of 1991.