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're not sure if there's a murderer here or not -- we're no good at interpreting inkblots beyond, "It's a splatter, a blotch, a spill, a splotch, an inkiness." From Together, 1966.
Only funny to a Southern sensibility: the captions read, "Now, Miss Polly, will you serve us cocoa?" and "Leave it alone and call it peach melba." From Sewanee's 1960 yearbook.
Here's an early iteration of the joke about there being a Nantucket subway, from Northeastern's 1968 yearbook. Today, there are whimsical maps of the Nantucket subway, and if you'd like to redecorate with Nantucket Subway ceramic tiles, they actually exist!