Dr. Cassandra and Cabala in “Unfinished Business”

I intend to succeed where my foremothers failed.

Four mothers?

The ancient alchemy bit has been handed down for generations through the females of my family. All abject failures. Nowheres-ville!

Yeah, just like my family. They couldn't wait for the Depression, they went broke during the boom.

My great-grandmother discovered how to transmute base metals into gold. But she cut out when she added CH3, CH2, H2, and NO2.

Put them all together, they spell T-N-T.

They found pieces of her as far away as Londinium.

Man, that was a trip.

Now Grandma perfected a universal solvent, fell in the stuff and was universally dissolved.

Wow.

We buried her in a thimble.

Well, how about dear ol' Mommy-O?

Ah, dear ol' Mommy-O cashed in when she perfected a perpetual motion machine, tripped... and was ground to bits by it.

Man, you sure come from a long line of winnners, baby.