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.
Before "Netflix and chill," there was Netflix and CHILI!
They'll eat Mexican food and watch a zombie movie with you, but they charge $1.50 (which is equivalent to $4.71 today). From Western Carolina's 1980 yearbook.
A rarely admitted outrage of higher education: you've seen those college pennants, but did you know that coeds go unclothed just so dormitory walls can be decorated? From Greensboro's 1926 yearbook.
You might have assumed that the northern lights were caused by the interaction of charged particles from the sun with atoms in the upper atmosphere. But auroras were actually the world's first greeting cards. "Say it with auroras." From Manchester College's 1920 yearbook.
This detail of a photograph in a Philadelphia yearbook, 1968, has clearly captured a being from the Otherworld. We've identified this creature as the long-nosed seducer demon Zanni (of Harlequin mask fame).