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.
If you ever questioned the existence of the Easter Bunny, it is here revealed that it was a cat all along. Now you can believe. From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
Of course the Easter Bunny does not lay eggs himself. The eggs are obtained through coercion, bribery, and other closely-guarded methods. From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
Here's Santa as the Easter bunny. The headline reads, "Eat your Easter candy at Christmas." It's a precursor to holidays colliding in The Nightmare Before Christmas. From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.
A: Not without a license: "It is illegal in California for anyone to possess eggs ... without a license" (California Farmer, Vol. 274), possibly because "The urge to find and possess eggs has driven men to distant and dangerous places" (Joseph Kastner, A World of Watchers).