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.
Student loans are no longer necessary for learning how to be your own cat: see How to Be Your Own Cat. However, special tutoring is still essential for learning how to be your own kangaroo. From William and Mary's 1981 yearbook.
Our eye alighted upon a fairy standing immediately to the left of the tree trunk. We zoomed in and provided an outline to show you what we saw. From Wesleyan College (Macon GA)'s 1924 yearbook.
"Note that at this point, Ralph will divide into two separate entities, enabling him to experience both sides simultaneously." From St. Andrews' 1974 yearbook.
The way a cat's pupils are oriented, it can stare you down through the mists of time. This cat, for example, is indubitably looking directly at you from all the way back in 1971. From Emerson's 1971 yearbook.
As we've revealed on occasion, the glowing trees in old yearbooks constitute a far-reaching forest that has to this day eluded the study of arboriculturists. From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1998 yearbook.
We initially suspected the headless figure on the right to be a ghost, but our custom Uncanny Detector app posits that the abandoned boots themselves are haunted. From Salem's 1960 yearbook.
Those who follow our strange peregrinations though old yearbooks will recognize this as an encounter with the shdow self. From Memphis State's 1972 yearbook.
Somewhere in vintage Twin Peaks or the Lumberton of David Lynch's Blue Velvet? Of course, the exterior scenes of Lumberton were filmed in Wilmington, and this is from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's 1978 yearbook.