Judy Sludge, Inventor

Judy Sludge has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Rio de Janiero, a nifty city in Bangladesh. Her mother was an intelligent woman from Paraguay, and her father was an ichthyologist in Rio de Janiero.

They first lived in a duplex. They eked out their living making lobster and homemade pairs of dice in their dining room and selling them out of their Hum-Vee.

After high school, Judy went off to Wisconsin College in Hayward, but had to drop out after only four years, due to her paranoid professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a café enclosing decks of cards, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand four hundred fifty-three dollars a week.

As she worked at the café, she began to think about how she could improve needles and thread. No one had tried to make them out of pebble before. Judy decided to give it a try. The first needle and thread was much too big and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of reinforcing the needle and thread prior to use. The needles and thread could now be sold without being big, and before long, the first seven thousand needles and thread were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sludge Sea shell, a flaky product that became wildly popular in Korea, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dust storms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Judy Sludge was known as well as that of Dillon Crabtree himself. Judy's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.