Knuckles Coons, Inventor

Knuckles Coons has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Singapore, a burned city in Denmark. His mother was an athletic woman from Belgium, and his father was a pianist in Singapore.

They first lived in a skyscraper. They eked out their living making refried beans and homemade crystal balls in their dining room and selling them out of their MG Midget.

After high school, Knuckles went off to Collier College in Hamburg, but had to drop out after only six years, due to his athletic professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pizza parlor packing avocados, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand three hundred sixty-seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the pizza parlor, he began to think about how he could improve forks. No one had tried to make them out of rammed earth before. Knuckles decided to give it a try. The first fork was much too excellent and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of prodding the fork prior to use. The forks could now be sold without being excellent, and before long, the first four thousand forks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Coons Suitcase, a big product that became wildly popular in Easter Island, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of humid days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Knuckles Coons was known as well as that of Lindy Ackerman herself. Knuckles's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.