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, too, would choose a night in a haunted house over a night with Pamela Anderson (unless she really wanted hair and makeup tips, if you get our meaning). Malcolm Robinson quoted in Harrow Times, 2000, via UFO Newsclipping Service.
It's finally making sense -- if disco lights are from outer space, that goes a long way toward accounting for some of the unexplained music we've heard DJs spin. Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
Wait -- if no beret is needed for dabbling and enjoyment, then forget it. Everything is more fun in a hat, and anyone who doesn't already know that has been missing out big time. From Together, 1959.
We're more a prisoner of "didsts," but we hope that won't make you leavest. The headline reads, "Help! I'm a prisoner of the wasts and dosts." From Together, 1967.