Fake Finger Nails

Farmer Jones raises chickens. He is by no means a tycoon in the poultry business, but he does alright for himself. He credits his success, largely to his frugality.

Farmer Jones, however, has a problem. Believing every part of the chicken to be useful, he has over a hundred thousand chickens worth of feathers in storage. He can't throw them away, but he doesn't know what to do with them.

Bob is an everyday guy. He lives alone in an apartment. He comes home from a mediocre sales position to watch TV. until it's time for bed.

Bob, however, has a problem. He chews his nails. He doesn’t just bite them, mind you. He chews them into pulp and greedily swallows them down. He chews his fingernails down until they bleed. When he runs out of fingernails he chews his toenails. When he chews those to the quick, he waits impatiently for his body to grow more. It's all he can do.

But fate has conspired to solve these problems, for all of the farmer Jones' and Bobs of the world.

Having come across a seemingly inconsequential piece of trivia, (finger nails and chicken feather being composed of the same protein), MikeD, an enterprising half-inventor, and sympathetic to Bob's plight, strikes and idea.

If large quantities of chicken feathers could be purchased relatively cheaply, they could be bleached, mashed into pulp and baked to harden in fingernail clipping shaped moulds. Thus simultaneously alleviating farmer Jones of his surplus chicken feathers and satiating Bob's nail chewing habit, all while turning a bit of a profit.