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.
I know the answer is supposed to be "bicycle," but there are so very many flavors of ice cream yet untasted. "365 ice cream cones or a bicycle." From The Instructor, 1959.
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.
Here's a precursor to the Atkins diet. This ice cream vending machine has been marked "Permanently out of order." From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1963.
This old diagram could serve as a spinner for allowing luck to determine how much ice cream to serve oneself. It's from a wholly different context: Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit by John S. Trecartin, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]