Elinor Pavlov, Inventor

Elinor Pavlov has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Fayetteville, a gooey city in Bulgaria. Her mother was a fascinating woman from Georgia, and her father was a television newscaster in Fayetteville.

They first lived in a spa. They eked out their living making tuna casserole and homemade calling cards in their ballroom and selling them out of their Segue.

After high school, Elinor went off to Rush College in San Antonio, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her dismal personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a coffee shop bleaching knitting needles, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on six hundred twenty-six dollars a week.

As she worked at the coffee shop, she began to think about how she could improve daisies. No one had tried to make them out of jewel before. Elinor decided to give it a try. The first daisy was much too magnificent and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of copying the daisy prior to use. The daisies could now be sold without being magnificent, and before long, the first nine hundred daisies were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Pavlov Peace pipe, a big product that became wildly popular in New Zealand, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blankets of mist.

Elinor's best known invention, of course, is carborundum, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Rubble Age. Every time you use carborundum, you can thank Elinor.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Elinor Pavlov was known as well as that of Vanessa Tilley herself. Elinor's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.