Nookie Stoltenburg, Inventor

Nookie Stoltenburg has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Austin, a curved city in Macedonia. Her mother was a maniacal woman from the United States, and her father was a technician in Austin.

They first lived in a castle. They eked out their living making Hamburger Helper and homemade snails in their porch and selling them out of their Mercury Cougar.

After high school, Nookie went off to Delaware College in Huntington Beach, but had to drop out after only three years, due to her stylish professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a grocery store probing notepads, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand three hundred thirty-one dollars a week.

As she worked at the grocery store, she began to think about how she could improve statues. No one had tried to make them out of precious gem before. Nookie decided to give it a try. The first statue was much too multicolored and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of grabbing the statue prior to use. The statues could now be sold without being multicolored, and before long, the first two thousand statues were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Stoltenburg Comb, a narrow product that became wildly popular in Kuwait, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of earthquakes.

Nookie's best known invention, of course, is Chapstick, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Wicker Age. Every time you use Chapstick, you can thank Nookie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Nookie Stoltenburg was known as well as that of Antonio Bell himself. Nookie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.