Having spent most of his childhood as an idiot the author became a simpleton in middle-age graduating to the lofty height of imbecile in 2011. He has been a cretin and noted curmudgeon for the last three years. Having written thirty-five best-sellers including Aglets Through the Ages - All About the Naughty Little Things on the Ends of Shoelaces, Boiling Eggs for Simpletons, and The Lead in Your Pencil - A Concise History of Pencil Hardness Dr. Pepperell has recently been declared 'legally stupid' by the Ohio Department of Imbeciles and Cretins. Pepperell collects wasps, twigs and pencil erazors and was inducted into the Ohio Hall of Idiots in 1986. He is 104.