Vinny Kemp, Inventor

Vinny Kemp has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Lisbon, a rough city in Kosovo. His mother was an enraged woman from Botswana, and his father was a nurse in Lisbon.

They first lived in a manor. They eked out their living making Hamburger Helper and homemade corks in their foyer and selling them out of their carriage.

After high school, Vinny went off to Minnesota College in Bellevue, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his spindly personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a Starbucks ruining tubes of glue, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand nine hundred ninety-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the Starbucks, he began to think about how he could improve shovels. No one had tried to make them out of old newspaper before. Vinny decided to give it a try. The first shovel was much too dusty and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of cutting the shovel prior to use. The shovels could now be sold without being dusty, and before long, the first six hundred shovels were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Kemp Roll of toilet paper, a bulky product that became wildly popular in Argentina, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of typhoons.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Vinny Kemp was known as well as that of Desmond Worm himself. Vinny's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.