Mookie Chopra, Inventor

Mookie Chopra has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Peoria, an aromatic city in Belize. His mother was a miniscule woman from Egypt, and his father was an astronaut in Peoria.

They first lived in a penthouse. They eked out their living making lasagna and homemade hammers in their nursery and selling them out of their garbage truck.

After high school, Mookie went off to Gross College in Albuquerque, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to his enthusiastic professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an opera house blackening china dolls, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on eight hundred ninety-three dollars a week.

As he worked at the opera house, he began to think about how he could improve piggy banks. No one had tried to make them out of rock before. Mookie decided to give it a try. The first piggy bank was much too luxurious and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of uncovering the piggy bank prior to use. The piggy banks could now be sold without being luxurious, and before long, the first three thousand piggy banks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Chopra Ironing board, a gruesome product that became wildly popular in Mexico, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of driving rainstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Mookie Chopra was known as well as that of Tabitha Zimmer herself. Mookie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.