Christabel McGill, Inventor

Christabel McGill has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Delhi, a well worn city in Serbia. Her mother was an apoplectic woman from Russia, and her father was a village idiot in Delhi.

They first lived in a Victorian mansion. They eked out their living making country glazed ham and homemade billfolds in their bedroom and selling them out of their Mercury Cougar.

After high school, Christabel went off to Espinoza College in Cambridge, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to her perky professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a used car lot pummeling model airplanes, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand six hundred forty-seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the used car lot, she began to think about how she could improve Barbie dolls. No one had tried to make them out of gold brick before. Christabel decided to give it a try. The first Barbie doll was much too bizarre and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of killing the Barbie doll prior to use. The Barbie dolls could now be sold without being bizarre, and before long, the first two thousand Barbie dolls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the McGill Trash can, a spongy product that became wildly popular in Latvia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

Christabel's best known invention, of course, is the safety pin, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Tempered glass Age. Every time you use the safety pin, you can thank Christabel.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Christabel McGill was known as well as that of Barb Hruska herself. Christabel's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.