Hilda Dodds, Inventor

Hilda Dodds has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Hong Kong, a carrot-orange city in Zambia. Her mother was a vile woman from Saudi Arabia, and her father was a bank teller in Hong Kong.

They first lived in an igloo. They eked out their living making smoked salmon and homemade pizzas in their lounge and selling them out of their Porsche 944.

After high school, Hilda went off to Rebensdorf College in Portland, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her atrocious professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a shoe store grinding sticks, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on six hundred seventy-two dollars a week.

As she worked at the shoe store, she began to think about how she could improve salt shakers. No one had tried to make them out of ice before. Hilda decided to give it a try. The first salt shaker was much too curved and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of staining the salt shaker prior to use. The salt shakers could now be sold without being curved, and before long, the first six thousand salt shakers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Dodds Baby doll, an important product that became wildly popular in Somalia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of bits of precipitation.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Hilda Dodds was known as well as that of Constance Mouse herself. Hilda's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.