What My Brother-in-Law Should Be Working On

Things like this, since he is a scientist, man, as is the sister to whom he is married. She's a sassy bird by the name of Clare and there is something wild about her. Of my six sisters, she's the one I'd least like to fight. She married an English fellow named Stephen, who we call Fringy. I have not been given a satisfactory explanation for this name.

Anyways, he's probably trying to cure cancer or something boring like that. But really, what's the use in having a British relative if he's not going to be eccentric? Shouldn't he be working on toffee-scented Flubber or an invisibility ray? Or at least using genetics to finally make a real Bat Boy?