Belle Clinton, Inventor

Belle Clinton has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Rotterdam, a crude city in Samoa. Her mother was a rapacious woman from El Salvador, and her father was a spy in Rotterdam.

They first lived in a trough. They eked out their living making lobster and homemade ironing boards in their salon and selling them out of their Corvette.

After high school, Belle went off to Kansas College in Algiers, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to her dreadful personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a beauty salon sealing fish bowls, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand one hundred eighty-one dollars a week.

As she worked at the beauty salon, she began to think about how she could improve coat hangers. No one had tried to make them out of cow pie before. Belle decided to give it a try. The first coat hanger was much too gross and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of decontaminating the coat hanger prior to use. The coat hangers could now be sold without being gross, and before long, the first eight hundred coat hangers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Clinton Rubber chicken, a dry product that became wildly popular in Honduras, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of palls of doom.

Belle's best known invention, of course, is the paper clip, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Elmer's glue Age. Every time you use the paper clip, you can thank Belle.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Belle Clinton was known as well as that of Stanley Mann himself. Belle's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.