Rosario Barducci, Inventor

Rosario Barducci has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Capetown, a fuzzy city in the Congo. His mother was an unselfish woman from Australia, and his father was a sports writer in Capetown.

They first lived in a wikiup. They eked out their living making pumpkin pie and homemade protest signs in their atrium and selling them out of their Suzuki Wagon.

After high school, Rosario went off to Hamilton College in Saskatoon, but had to drop out after only two years, due to his paranoid personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a coffee shop pulverizing mirrors, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand two dollars a week.

As he worked at the coffee shop, he began to think about how he could improve pieces of candy. No one had tried to make them out of dream and vision before. Rosario decided to give it a try. The first piece of candy was much too ordinary and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of shortening the piece of candy prior to use. The pieces of candy could now be sold without being ordinary, and before long, the first nine hundred pieces of candy were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Barducci Necklace, an ornate product that became wildly popular in New Zealand, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of snowstorms.

Rosario's best known invention, of course, is the flush toilet, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Cinder block Age. Every time you use the flush toilet, you can thank Rosario.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Rosario Barducci was known as well as that of Elliott Jackson herself. Rosario's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.