Jacques Fodor, Inventor

Jacques Fodor has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Gillette, a filthy city in Romania. His mother was a sweet woman from Ecuador, and his father was a messenger in Gillette.

They first lived in a retreat. They eked out their living making cabbage and homemade mirrors in their master bathroom and selling them out of their Oldsmobile.

After high school, Jacques went off to Puerto Rico College in Grand Prairie, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his bubbly professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pet shop handling saddles, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand four hundred forty-five dollars a week.

As he worked at the pet shop, he began to think about how he could improve buckets. No one had tried to make them out of egg shell before. Jacques decided to give it a try. The first bucket was much too gaudy and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of mutilating the bucket prior to use. The buckets could now be sold without being gaudy, and before long, the first six thousand buckets were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Fodor Clarinet, a puzzling product that became wildly popular in Austria, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hurricanes.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Jacques Fodor was known as well as that of Larry Salinger himself. Jacques's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.