Lynn Thomas, Inventor

Lynn Thomas has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Denver, a greasy city in Senegal. His mother was a loving woman from Malta, and his father was a songwriter in Denver.

They first lived in a nunnery. They eked out their living making lasagna and homemade feathers in their garage and selling them out of their Suburu Forester.

After high school, Lynn went off to Vermont College in Belfast, but had to drop out after only four years, due to his cowardly personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an electronics store rearranging ashtrays, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand five hundred ninety-nine dollars a week.

As he worked at the electronics store, he began to think about how he could improve footballs. No one had tried to make them out of walnut before. Lynn decided to give it a try. The first football was much too golden and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of hacking the football prior to use. The footballs could now be sold without being golden, and before long, the first four hundred footballs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Thomas China doll, a brittle product that became wildly popular in Senegal, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of snowstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Lynn Thomas was known as well as that of Spud Geiger himself. Lynn's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.