The Speedo was created by Australian Terrance Speedo (born 1928) in 1969. It was always Terrance’s dream to become a male model, ever since he was 4 years old. So, when he had finally turned eighteen, Terrance entered the office of the biggest modelling agency around. But alas, they turned him down, mainly because he was 40 stone and incredibly hairy. But to a disillusioned young Terrance (he was also on quite a lot of drugs), he interpreted this as race hate because of his ewokian origins, and labelled them racists.