Marcus Stringer, Inventor

Marcus Stringer has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Dublin, a gooey city in Ecuador. His mother was a maniacal woman from China, and his father was a physician in Dublin.

They first lived in a nunnery. They eked out their living making ramen noodles and homemade grease guns in their auditorium and selling them out of their Toyota Land Cruiser.

After high school, Marcus went off to Ruiz College in Bangalore, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to his megalomaniacal personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a travel agency understanding buttons, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand forty dollars a week.

As he worked at the travel agency, he began to think about how he could improve paper bags. No one had tried to make them out of chocolate before. Marcus decided to give it a try. The first paper bag was much too rigid and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of moistening the paper bag prior to use. The paper bags could now be sold without being rigid, and before long, the first eight hundred paper bags were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Stringer Bedpan, a used product that became wildly popular in Singapore, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of pelting rainstorms.

Marcus's best known invention, of course, is the sandwich, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Bubble Age. Every time you use the sandwich, you can thank Marcus.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Marcus Stringer was known as well as that of Liling Knopf herself. Marcus's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.