Marcie Tutu, Inventor

Marcie Tutu has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Pembroke, a decrepit city in Mexico. Her mother was a petulant woman from Nigeria, and her father was a mayor in Pembroke.

They first lived in a chateau. They eked out their living making pot roast and homemade batteries in their boudoir and selling them out of their hoverboard.

After high school, Marcie went off to Slater College in Belfast, but had to drop out after only two years, due to her solitary personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a jewelry store grappling Helmholz resonators, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand eight hundred seventy-seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the jewelry store, she began to think about how she could improve crutches. No one had tried to make them out of chewing gum before. Marcie decided to give it a try. The first crutch was much too gigantic and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of cleaning the crutch prior to use. The crutches could now be sold without being gigantic, and before long, the first two hundred crutches were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Tutu Pack of gum, a worn product that became wildly popular in Afghanistan, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of typhoons.

Marcie's best known invention, of course, is the air brake, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Tempered steel Age. Every time you use the air brake, you can thank Marcie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Marcie Tutu was known as well as that of Helga McCord herself. Marcie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.