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 double-checked this Charles Kingsley quotation, and it is untrue. (Yesterdays sneers and frowns certainly can come again!) But we snagged it for the hand lettering. From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.
The exhilaration of being hit by the first snowball of winter -- it can be neither bought nor sold, and that's why they'd take it away from us. From Missouri Southern's 1970 yearbook.
Though we don't like this Robert Browning quotation, "What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me," we snagged the image because it reveals that silhouettes aspire to be watermarks. From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.
If Wordsworth had said this to me, I'd have invited him to absent himself from my presence (using only words from The Dictionary of Ugly Words) so that my reading could continue undisturbed and my growth continue to double. From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.