Woody Spangler, Inventor

Woody Spangler has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Aurora, an ancient city in Albania. His mother was a gentle woman from South Sudan, and his father was a makeup artist in Aurora.

They first lived in a stinky shack. They eked out their living making fried chicken and homemade Bunsen burners in their doghouse and selling them out of their Mercury Cougar.

After high school, Woody went off to Tennessee College in Sydney, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to his contented professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pizza joint extinguishing Lego sets, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on ninety-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the pizza joint, he began to think about how he could improve corks. No one had tried to make them out of moss before. Woody decided to give it a try. The first cork was much too decrepit and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of spinning the cork prior to use. The corks could now be sold without being decrepit, and before long, the first five thousand corks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Spangler Pillow, a striped product that became wildly popular in Malta, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hailstorms.

Woody's best known invention, of course, is the refrigerator, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Chewing gum Age. Every time you use the refrigerator, you can thank Woody.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Woody Spangler was known as well as that of Millicent Moore himself. Woody's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.