Gunther Justice, Inventor

Gunther Justice has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Fullerton, a porcelain city in New Guinea. His mother was a friendly woman from the Congo, and his father was a blogger in Fullerton.

They first lived in a monastery. They eked out their living making borscht and homemade Frisbees in their nursery and selling them out of their Toyota 4Runner.

After high school, Gunther went off to Indiana College in Shanghai, but had to drop out after only two years, due to his colorless professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a video arcade decorating pairs of pliers, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand two hundred sixty-seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the video arcade, he began to think about how he could improve rubber stamps. No one had tried to make them out of fiberglass before. Gunther decided to give it a try. The first rubber stamp was much too colossal and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of forgetting the rubber stamp prior to use. The rubber stamps could now be sold without being colossal, and before long, the first six thousand rubber stamps were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Justice Doll, a plastic product that became wildly popular in Brazil, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of palls of doom.

Gunther's best known invention, of course, is the spork, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Copper Age. Every time you use the spork, you can thank Gunther.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Gunther Justice was known as well as that of Romeo Lawrence himself. Gunther's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.