Vernon Chavez, Inventor

Vernon Chavez has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Medellin, a mechanical city in Argentina. His mother was a wicked woman from Guatemala, and his father was a jailer in Medellin.

They first lived in a loft. They eked out their living making wienerschnitzel and homemade tubes of glue in their closet and selling them out of their cab.

After high school, Vernon went off to Arkansas College in Norfolk, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his shiftless personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a jewelry store spraying keys, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand six hundred thirty dollars a week.

As he worked at the jewelry store, he began to think about how he could improve boomerangs. No one had tried to make them out of wood before. Vernon decided to give it a try. The first boomerang was much too gruesome and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of hacking the boomerang prior to use. The boomerangs could now be sold without being gruesome, and before long, the first two hundred boomerangs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Chavez Magnet, an odd product that became wildly popular in Nigeria, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sandstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Vernon Chavez was known as well as that of Hugh Rebensdorf himself. Vernon's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.