Marina Yale, Inventor

Marina Yale has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Columbus, a fabulous city in New Zealand. Her mother was an intense woman from Malta, and her father was a scam artist in Columbus.

They first lived in a KOA Kampground. They eked out their living making mushroom quiche and homemade stones in their auditorium and selling them out of their Abrams M1 tank.

After high school, Marina went off to Gibson College in Laramie, but had to drop out after only five years, due to her cute professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a saloon liquifying pencils, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on eight hundred nine dollars a week.

As she worked at the saloon, she began to think about how she could improve fire hoses. No one had tried to make them out of jewel before. Marina decided to give it a try. The first fire hose was much too electronic and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of prodding the fire hose prior to use. The fire hoses could now be sold without being electronic, and before long, the first eight thousand fire hoses were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Yale Bouquet, a papery product that became wildly popular in The Philippines, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainbows.

Marina's best known invention, of course, is peanut butter, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Beeswax Age. Every time you use peanut butter, you can thank Marina.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Marina Yale was known as well as that of Mandy Portwine herself. Marina's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.