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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
Here is revealed where authors find themselves when their works go out of print (OOP), from Washington and Lee University's Calyx yearbook, 1898. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
Here's the musical notation for "ouch," from Emmerich Manual High School's Booster yearbook, 1919. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)
Here's the physics of baseball and the origin of "seeing stars," from Washington and Lee University's Calyx yearbook, 1907. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
Here's a precursor from Ninifaye's "If life gives you lemons, pack them up in your suitcase and make a nice cake when home." From the University of Maryland's Terra Mariae yearbook, 1908. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)
Here's a precursor to web searches, from Elizabethtown College's Etonian yearbook, 1922. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)
Here's the secert to making money with cards, revealed in the College of William and Mary's Colonial Echo yearbook, 1916. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
Here is revealed the only proper way for a gentleman to gaze upon a lady's bosomed physique. From the Fort Wayne High and Manual Training School's Cauldron yearbook, 1904. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
