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.
At first glance we assumed they were wrangling a ghost, then that they were chiseling a statue. Our custom Uncanny Detector app says it's actually the ghost of a statue. From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook. "Oh, we're all frank and twenty when the spring is in the air, and we've faith and hope a-plenty and we've life and love to spare" (Richard Hovey.)
This temporal anomaly contains a purple haze near the middle. Plus, a magic word square surrounds the XII, with "word" spelled forwards, backwards, upside down, vertically, and upside down vertically. From Wilmington's 1923 yearbook.