White Cloud Pavlov, Inventor

White Cloud Pavlov has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Bangkok, an ordinary city in Luxembourg. His mother was a rugged woman from Pakistan, and his father was a convenience store clerk in Bangkok.

They first lived in a hotel. They eked out their living making cornbread and homemade diaries in their study and selling them out of their Hum-Vee.

After high school, White Cloud went off to New York College in Casablanca, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his urbane personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a café disguising guns, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand two hundred twenty-three dollars a week.

As he worked at the café, he began to think about how he could improve basketballs. No one had tried to make them out of Tyvek before. White Cloud decided to give it a try. The first basketball was much too puzzling and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of dragging the basketball prior to use. The basketballs could now be sold without being puzzling, and before long, the first five hundred basketballs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Pavlov Wastebasket, a coarse product that became wildly popular in Laos, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainbows.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name White Cloud Pavlov was known as well as that of Rover Pearson himself. White Cloud's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.