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.
It's now politically incorrect to call foreign languages "strange tongues." We once studied strange tongues but didn't keep in practice (we weren't friends with enough strangers), so now we're better at reading strangely than speaking strangely. From North Central's 1986 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.
You've heard the slogan, "Say it with flowers." But did you know that with every flower you pick, you're forming a word? How many flowers have died for unconsidered blathering? From the High Point yearbook of 1971.