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.
48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy. From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.
48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy. From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.
48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there were these doughboys. From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.
48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there were these doughboys. From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.
At first glance, we assumed this was a Biblically-accurate angel. It's an optical illusion of seven cherbus within a trinity, in a soap ad from Youth's Companion, 1887.
"The post-office is in the heart of an old hollow oak tree." From The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by A. D. Blashfield, 1912.
"Sun dials and moon dials are approved, as they mark the bright hours only." From The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by A. D. Blashfield, 1912.