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 camera lies." Plus, there's a free drag name for you -- "Camera Clix," pronounced like "Camero" but with an "a" at the end. From Mechanix Illustrated, May 1945.
They say modern selfie-takers are narcissistic psychopaths, but our forebears took selfies of themselves dating their doppelgängers. How far we have devolved. From The Idler, 1894.
"Necromancy in the movies - A 'doctored' picture that apparently shows the reflected image of the heroine in the hero's left eye." From Popular Mechanics, 1917.