• there in front of you, wearing that cunning little yachting cap maybe.
• is never the logical conclusion.
• to point us to the meaning.
• we’re all mortal.
• what it generates.
• luck.
• consciousness.
• that there is no reason for anything.
• nothing more than the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
• that it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Merryland turns out to be in Maryland.  From The Maryland Horse, 1971.

A caution to those with wood-burning stoves -- it's the sulfur in matchsticks that can trigger this phenomenon.  From La Colotte, 1909.

A dream of dancing teeth.  From Baylor's 1919 yearbook.

The blowing-snow effect in this photo, coupled with the curvature at the top, hints of a scene within a "snow globe."  From Seton Hall's 1926 yearbook.

From Mansfield's 1932 yearbook.

From Northwestern's 1921 yearbook.

"The earth hath bubbles as the water has, and these are of them."  From Lebanon Valley's 1913 yearbook.

From Nebelspalter, 1958.

The time in Melbourne, Australia is 79:91 — one of the most distressing temporal anomalies we've encountered, documented by Jurgen Schaub.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of this timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

From Harper's, 1958.

From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.