FAKE HISTORY: Once thought of as "Unmarketable", the Hulf Yarble sells over five million a year since its introduction in America in 1975. Simply a piece of paper glued to a wire that is stuck in a pine cone in a pot, the popular desk decorator has its origins in ancient Japan as a Zen Buddhist holy relic. On vacation there, anthropologist Norton Flummer brought one back and put it on his office desk. Within weeks, as the story goes, investors came pouring in and he became a multi millionaire. Attributing some of the good luck to the Hulf Yarble (actually pronounced Huf Yabo in Japanese, which means "decoration of fools") Flummer proposed to market the strange item and was met with many doors closed. Taking a gamble, Flummer decided to do it himself, creating a market that made him one of the wealthiest men in the world.