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.
We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in Lake Wales, Florida. Two faces of the town clock are a few minutes in disagreement. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we diagnosed the source of the problem at a glance. Directly below the clock faces in question is a sign with the word "Slow," just disruptive enough to sedate time by two to three minutes.
We bemoan how culturally illiterate folks are today, but even back in 1900 a cartoonist had to identify this obvious ship of animals as Noah's Ark. From Nebelspalter, 1900.
Perplexing -- is he on our world, looking down at an alternate reality, or is he on a parallel earth looking down at ours? From William and Mary's 1914 yearbook.