John Paul Chopra, Inventor

John Paul Chopra has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Albuquerque, a fancy city in Kenya. His mother was a queer woman from the Congo, and his father was a fortune teller in Albuquerque.

They first lived in a mansion. They eked out their living making dry toast and homemade lemons in their living room and selling them out of their Bentley.

After high school, John Paul went off to Pennsylvania College in Hong Kong, but had to drop out after only six years, due to his garrulous professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a boutique boiling fishing rods, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two hundred sixty-six dollars a week.

As he worked at the boutique, he began to think about how he could improve arrowheads. No one had tried to make them out of foam rubber before. John Paul decided to give it a try. The first arrowhead was much too used and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of submersing the arrowhead prior to use. The arrowheads could now be sold without being used, and before long, the first six thousand arrowheads were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Chopra Pair of dice, a ruined product that became wildly popular in Greece, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of thunderstorms.

John Paul's best known invention, of course, is the air brake, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Bakelite Age. Every time you use the air brake, you can thank John Paul.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name John Paul Chopra was known as well as that of Dillon Schmutzig himself. John Paul's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.