Pam Zing, Inventor

Pam Zing has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Billings, a used city in Kazakhstan. Her mother was a pigeon-toed woman from Mongolia, and her father was a convenience store clerk in Billings.

They first lived in an apartment. They eked out their living making chocolate-covered ants and homemade bagpipes in their corridor and selling them out of their Suzuki Wagon.

After high school, Pam went off to Arkansas College in Manhattan, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her cowardly professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a shoe shine booth tweaking toys, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand five hundred twelve dollars a week.

As she worked at the shoe shine booth, she began to think about how she could improve bouquets. No one had tried to make them out of foam before. Pam decided to give it a try. The first bouquet was much too waxy and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of picking the bouquet prior to use. The bouquets could now be sold without being waxy, and before long, the first six thousand bouquets were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Zing Rag, a musty product that became wildly popular in Slovakia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainbows.

Pam's best known invention, of course, is the windmill, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Block of ice Age. Every time you use the windmill, you can thank Pam.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Pam Zing was known as well as that of Horst Edwards himself. Pam's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.