Mac Diamond, Inventor

Mac Diamond has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Irvine, a brightly-colored city in Serbia. His mother was a sophisticated woman from Lebanon, and his father was a politician in Irvine.

They first lived in a sand castle. They eked out their living making brownies and homemade urns in their parlor and selling them out of their Pontiac Firebird.

After high school, Mac went off to Washington College in Reno, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to his apoplectic personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a butcher shop selecting comic books, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand one hundred sixty-seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the butcher shop, he began to think about how he could improve garbage cans. No one had tried to make them out of precious gem before. Mac decided to give it a try. The first garbage can was much too stiff and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of honoring the garbage can prior to use. The garbage cans could now be sold without being stiff, and before long, the first two hundred garbage cans were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Diamond Mirror, a hefty product that became wildly popular in Bolivia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of windy days.

Mac's best known invention, of course, is Scotch tape, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Post and beam Age. Every time you use Scotch tape, you can thank Mac.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Mac Diamond was known as well as that of Rumpelstiltskin Barducci himself. Mac's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.