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.
Revealed: ghosts like to haunt big houses because, like sheets, they naturally spread out. From Panzer College's 1935 yearbook. See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
We checked, and there's still no better way to dispel the ghost of Caspari de la Orndorf que Bastin et Shimpf. From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
Here's mentioned a ghost named Murgatroid Q. Schnellbessenbinder. It's said that one can't catch a ghost unless one knows its name, and this news item is a good example of why it's pointless to guess at a ghost's name. From Current Sauce, 1963.