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.
Reblog if the squirrel of temptation has corrupted you with the lure of ice cream, candies, tobacco, pipes, or billards. From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.
You've heard about the "war on Christmas," but Christmas began fighting back in 1917, as we see in Cartoons Magazine. This will also be of interest:The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.
Nearly 20 years before the debut of the Candy Land board game, the Fizz-O-Mint Life Savers vehicle (c. 1930, Queensland) navigated the Candy Cane Forest, evaded the Molasses Swamp, and scaled Gum Drop Mountain.