Kitten De Leon, Inventor

Kitten De Leon has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Panama City, a cotton city in Ethiopia. Her mother was a dismal woman from Egypt, and her father was a zookeeper in Panama City.

They first lived in a ranch house. They eked out their living making omelet and homemade elephant tusks in their porch and selling them out of their Volkswagon Beetle.

After high school, Kitten went off to Nurbabayev College in Huntsville, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to her unruffled personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a beauty salon switching file folders, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one hundred ninety-three dollars a week.

As she worked at the beauty salon, she began to think about how she could improve washrags. No one had tried to make them out of cellophane before. Kitten decided to give it a try. The first washrag was much too fancy and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of refining the washrag prior to use. The washrags could now be sold without being fancy, and before long, the first nine hundred washrags were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the De Leon Pom-pom, a plain product that became wildly popular in Jordan, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

Kitten's best known invention, of course, is quantum theory, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Pulp Age. Every time you use quantum theory, you can thank Kitten.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Kitten De Leon was known as well as that of Valerie Coons herself. Kitten's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.