Nookie Tannenbaum, Inventor

Nookie Tannenbaum has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Richmond, a gruesome city in Nigeria. Her mother was an annoying woman from New Guinea, and her father was a sword swallower in Richmond.

They first lived in a manor. They eked out their living making ramen noodles and homemade pumpkins in their boudoir and selling them out of their limousine.

After high school, Nookie went off to Tsutsui College in Carlsbad, but had to drop out after only four years, due to her forgetful professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a gift shop stacking pairs of scissors, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand seven hundred ninety-two dollars a week.

As she worked at the gift shop, she began to think about how she could improve teapots. No one had tried to make them out of banana leaves before. Nookie decided to give it a try. The first teapot was much too cotton and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of preparing the teapot prior to use. The teapots could now be sold without being cotton, and before long, the first seven thousand teapots were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Tannenbaum Stack of papers, a gruesome product that became wildly popular in The Philippines, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sandstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Nookie Tannenbaum was known as well as that of Nadine Sanders herself. Nookie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.