Iris Grundy, Inventor

Iris Grundy has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Podunk Hollow, a nifty city in the Sandwich Islands. Her mother was a stinky woman from Ireland, and her father was an orchestra conductor in Podunk Hollow.

They first lived in a farmhouse. They eked out their living making cookies and homemade candles in their bathroom and selling them out of their Suburu Outback.

After high school, Iris went off to Windle College in Detroit, but had to drop out after only five years, due to her furious professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a souvenir shop soaking batteries, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand four hundred seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the souvenir shop, she began to think about how she could improve fish bowls. No one had tried to make them out of linoleum before. Iris decided to give it a try. The first fish bowl was much too porcelain and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of chopping the fish bowl prior to use. The fish bowls could now be sold without being porcelain, and before long, the first six thousand fish bowls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Grundy Flash drive, an automatic product that became wildly popular in Tibet, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drought.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Iris Grundy was known as well as that of Meredith Baird herself. Iris's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.