Ronnie Schmutzig, Inventor

Ronnie Schmutzig has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Dublin, a used city in the Czech Republic. His mother was a haggard woman from Belgium, and his father was a third grade teacher in Dublin.

They first lived in a monastery. They eked out their living making pot roast and homemade firecrackers in their billiard room and selling them out of their Hum-Vee.

After high school, Ronnie went off to Iowa College in Perth, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his cantankerous personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pub submersing sea shells, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand three hundred eight dollars a week.

As he worked at the pub, he began to think about how he could improve pots. No one had tried to make them out of chewing gum before. Ronnie decided to give it a try. The first pot was much too stiff and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of analyzing the pot prior to use. The pots could now be sold without being stiff, and before long, the first two hundred pots were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Schmutzig Barbell, a rare product that became wildly popular in Jordan, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of pelting rainstorms.

Ronnie's best known invention, of course, is the Big Bang theory, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Gold Age. Every time you use the Big Bang theory, you can thank Ronnie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Ronnie Schmutzig was known as well as that of Noah Chandler himself. Ronnie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.