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.
You've heard of the turtle that holds up the world, but that's just mythology -- it's actually two bunnies. It obviously has to be long-eared animals, for balance. From Duke's library, in the yearbook of 1933.
"Boring Weekend Nights. Inside some of the unexciting and not so unusual weekends." A headline from the College of William and Mary's yearbook of 1984.
Your first thought may very well be, "Fake!" But we analyzed this photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app, and the good news is that the curse which accurses it will reach its half-life in just under 50 years from now. From Fairmont's 1964 yearbook.
This photograph has captured a ghost and may be used to initiate a consultation with the unseen world. From the University of Rhode Island's 1966 yearbook.
It's only partially true that coins and flags have two sides. Viewed from below, for example, a flag is like the shell of the lightning whelk (the predatory marine mollusk with the spiral carapace). From Worcester Polytechnic's 1968 yearbook.