Lucky Tweedie, Inventor

Lucky Tweedie has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Prague, a gigantic city in Denmark. His mother was an insane woman from Bangladesh, and his father was a lawyer in Prague.

They first lived in a castle. They eked out their living making sweet potatoes and homemade twigs in their parlor and selling them out of their MG Midget.

After high school, Lucky went off to Hunt College in Manhattan, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his self-confident personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an art gallery seeing Egyptian mummies, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand three hundred forty-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the art gallery, he began to think about how he could improve cotton balls. No one had tried to make them out of fairy dust before. Lucky decided to give it a try. The first cotton ball was much too hollow and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of sanding the cotton ball prior to use. The cotton balls could now be sold without being hollow, and before long, the first eight hundred cotton balls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Tweedie Tube of glue, a gruesome product that became wildly popular in Malta, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainbows.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Lucky Tweedie was known as well as that of Triffid Olson herself. Lucky's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.