Arnold Grady, Inventor

Arnold Grady has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Karachi, a hard city in Honduras. His mother was a corpulent woman from Austria, and his father was a matador in Karachi.

They first lived in a cardboard box. They eked out their living making ravioli and homemade tissues in their dining room and selling them out of their Suburu Outback.

After high school, Arnold went off to Nagy College in Anchorage, but had to drop out after only six years, due to his carefree personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a saloon scrubbing blank checks, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on seven hundred sixty-six dollars a week.

As he worked at the saloon, he began to think about how he could improve thumb drives. No one had tried to make them out of yarn before. Arnold decided to give it a try. The first thumb drive was much too decrepit and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of choking the thumb drive prior to use. The thumb drives could now be sold without being decrepit, and before long, the first four hundred thumb drives were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Grady Pencil, a cotton product that became wildly popular in Macedonia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of downpours.

Arnold's best known invention, of course, is dynamite, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Rope Age. Every time you use dynamite, you can thank Arnold.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Arnold Grady was known as well as that of Ying Hook herself. Arnold's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.