Jacques Sartre, Inventor

Jacques Sartre has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Avonlea, a stolen city in England. His mother was a shiftless woman from Australia, and his father was a law clerk in Avonlea.

They first lived in a cave. They eked out their living making duck a l'orange and homemade orchids in their rec room and selling them out of their Volkswagon.

After high school, Jacques went off to Massachusetts College in Des Moines, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his charming personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a restaurant labeling Bunsen burners, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on nine hundred ninety dollars a week.

As he worked at the restaurant, he began to think about how he could improve handkerchiefs. No one had tried to make them out of rope before. Jacques decided to give it a try. The first handkerchief was much too imported and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of gluing the handkerchief prior to use. The handkerchiefs could now be sold without being imported, and before long, the first six hundred handkerchiefs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sartre Tube of glue, a gross product that became wildly popular in Ethiopia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dust storms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Jacques Sartre was known as well as that of Tracy Velasquez himself. Jacques's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.