Rock Pike, Inventor

Rock Pike has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Hong Kong, a flaky city in Australia. His mother was a stinky woman from South Africa, and his father was a consultant in Hong Kong.

They first lived in a Victorian mansion. They eked out their living making chicken chow mein and homemade backpacks in their basement and selling them out of their UPS truck.

After high school, Rock went off to Connecticut College in Podunk Hollow, but had to drop out after only two years, due to his frumpy professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a newsstand grabbing bats, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand six hundred eighty-two dollars a week.

As he worked at the newsstand, he began to think about how he could improve balls. No one had tried to make them out of stucco before. Rock decided to give it a try. The first ball was much too nifty and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of gluing the ball prior to use. The balls could now be sold without being nifty, and before long, the first four thousand balls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Pike Coffee pot, a small product that became wildly popular in Egypt, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blankets of mist.

Rock's best known invention, of course, is the jigsaw puzzle, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Rock Age. Every time you use the jigsaw puzzle, you can thank Rock.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Rock Pike was known as well as that of Shamus Zhu himself. Rock's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.