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.
The two large clocks at the railway station don't run, but the passengers who trust them have to run if they wish to catch the train. From The Rio News, March 29, 1892.
Too few home remedies for sick dolls have conveyed. A prescription from 1906 requires that no clocks tick during the doll's illness. Additionally, stairs mustn't creak, doors mustn't slam, and dogs must neither bark nor wag their tails. (This we learn in Uncle Charlie's Poems by Charles Noel Douglas, 1906.)