Ghyll:Olaff Devork

Olaff Chroverdent Parapparderrappar Jankywhippersnapple G. Devork was an oddly named fellow since the "G." stood for Greg. Born to an unknown father, his mother was a Bindlet Ball steamstress in distress. He is primarily remembered as principal investor in the Harrabloon Bank, founded in -185 EC, and Grand High Lochree* of the Owners Oversight Group, but that's boring so we won't discuss it further.

Olaff was well known in his early finance days for being the inventor of the Pachygraph system; an attempt to miniaturise pachyderms and send them around Ghyll through small tubes by the means of compressed air. The Pachydermian Union rejected his plans, though Olaff attempted to bribe them with copious amounts of gilded peanuts.

Olaff is known to have owned a pet dog called All Heck. Then, when people would leave his front gate open, he had an excuse to say "don't do that or All Heck will break loose!" He planned to write a book about this pun called "My Sides, They Are A-Splitting".

[Work in Progress; to be abandoned on Friday.]

P.S. Some people spell Parapparderrappar "Parapparderappar", but dey is wrong. Dig?

Site Hay Churns: Harrabloon Bank, @@, @@.

--Sean B. Palmer 06:51, 20 Jan 2005 (EST)