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 (and perhaps tried) opening a Bible at random and resting a finger on one verse as a form of divination. A more advanced practice is to do that but not look at the verse that comes up but rather attune to the answer that presents itself in your mind. Photo from Taylor Magazine, 1974.
You knew that the Bible is the best-selling book in history, but did you know that the No Bible is the least sold book in history? (Negative five billion No Bible sales to date, and subtracting by the day.) From Bible or No Bible, 1904.
In 1977, George Burns played God in the film Oh, God! Here he is, apparently, five years later, though strangely smaller and transparent. From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.
This is the only peppermint Bible mentioned on the web, not including false hits for peppermint tea bags that come with Bible verses. From Together, 1970.