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.
Should you whistle past the eerie graveyards in old yearbooks? Or do they harbor occult secrets? All is explained in How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook. From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.
You'll have noticed the wavy hands of this clock that interpenetrates a cemetery. You'll rarely see unbending hands on clocks that interpenetrate cemeteries. From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1974 yearbook.
You've heard there's no point unless you dedicate your life to it (whatever "it" may entail). Well, this particular yearbook staff followed up on that, and apparently none of them lived to see the publication. From Eastern Carolina's 1927 yearbook.