Jude Gray, Inventor

Jude Gray has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Long Beach, a stiff city in Indonesia. His mother was a dowdy woman from New Zealand, and his father was a wedding planner in Long Beach.

They first lived in an office. They eked out their living making borscht and homemade bird feeders in their ballroom and selling them out of their Pontiac Firebird.

After high school, Jude went off to Snigglefritz College in Lisbon, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to his clever personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a dry cleaner wiping umbrellas, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand seven hundred fifteen dollars a week.

As he worked at the dry cleaner, he began to think about how he could improve pairs of binoculars. No one had tried to make them out of precious gem before. Jude decided to give it a try. The first pair of binoculars was much too hideous and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of rocking the pair of binoculars prior to use. The pairs of binoculars could now be sold without being hideous, and before long, the first five hundred pairs of binoculars were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Gray Baseball bat, a leather product that became wildly popular in The Sandwich Islands, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drizzles.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Jude Gray was known as well as that of Katherine Small herself. Jude's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.