Harold Dodds, Inventor

Harold Dodds has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Shreveport, a fabulous city in Senegal. His mother was a corpulent woman from Samoa, and his father was a court jester in Shreveport.

They first lived in a quonset hut. They eked out their living making chicken chow mein and homemade iPods in their billiard room and selling them out of their Plymouth.

After high school, Harold went off to Schmuckley College in Capetown, but had to drop out after only two years, due to his diabolical professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pet shop softening vacuum cleaners, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand four hundred fifty-seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the pet shop, he began to think about how he could improve saws. No one had tried to make them out of pulp before. Harold decided to give it a try. The first saw was much too weird and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of extending the saw prior to use. The saws could now be sold without being weird, and before long, the first three thousand saws were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Dodds Jar of olives, an original product that became wildly popular in Kuwait, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of thunderstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Harold Dodds was known as well as that of Helen Barnes herself. Harold's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.