Jeanie Bottle 148
May29
on May 29, 2012
at 12:00 am
and modified on March 7, 2023. at 2:37 am
Chapter: Story 04: I Dream of my Old Bottle
Characters: Jeanie
I feel like I should put a surgeon general’s warning here…
Welcome to
Normally Updates Weekly
Usually Tuesday or Thursday
I feel like I should put a surgeon general’s warning here…
At least she left you some smoke.
It does appear she got a little more creative with the second poof.
She’s lucky she didn’t get poofed to, say, Chichen Itza with all that pink smoke…everyone knows smoking ziggurats are bad for your health (Grins, Ducks, Runs)
If at first you don’t succeed, repeat ad infinitum. She should run for president…
Yeah. There’s entirely too much smoke in that last panel.
Pretty sure Heather insisted on that as soon as she read the script they handed Brady . . .
Freakout in 3….2….1….
Well, Jean(nie) isn’t holding the pole, but the “stripper” part appears to be on target…
He/she seems determined to learn _nothing_ from what’s going on. Which means it’s just going to get worse.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch–er, Neil’s place…
I wonder when she’s going to notice she lost some rather important material on the last panel? XD
What kind of teenagers are those? Complaining about seeing naked girls appearing in a puff of pink smoke?
It’s not clear that what they are smoking is tobacco…
Welcome back, Jeannie. And welcome back again.
Also, Grammar Police stepping up – ignore if you so desire, especially since I’ll probably make a grammar mistake or three of my own in the accompanying text :p
Poof’d = correct, but a little odd. The apostrophe is standing in for the missing “e”. On the other hand, while it may be odd to use the contraction this way (as opposed to in poetry where it pops up all the time) it has the advantage of conveying pronunciation better than the standard spelling of “poofed” (by analogy with “to goof” > “goofed”)
Poof’s = probably incorrect, since I don’t think the apostrophe is standing in for a missing letter, but “poofs” instead agrees with the third person singular present form (I poof, you poof, someone else poofs)
Poof’ng: As with poof’d, above. Odd (very much so), but legit, with the apostrophe standing in for the missing “i”. On the other hand, the sequence “f’ng” tends to stand for a common expletive (apostrophes can substitute for multiple letters at once, after all), and the mental expansion of that expletive leads to a rather unfortunate reading of the word. Further, it is typical that the colloquial form of verb forms ending in “-ing” generally drop the final “g” and replace it with the apostrophe (“poofin'” would be the form, here).
The problem is in going for the parallelism in construction (generally a good thing, by the way) is that it is leading to words that look odd and the mind has to take a few moments to decipher.
Since “to poof” isn’t a standard English verb, the forms don’t look right and the mind will/may break the string of letters into syllables at the wrong point.
I _think_ what you’re trying to do is use the apostrophe+inflection in analogy to the form like “There are three 0’s after the 5” or “I got two A’s, two C’s and an F on my finals.” (http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp <– Rule 11's exceptions). If that is the case, then for the most part everything above about the contractions is pretty much moot. However, it would work much better if you could set off the "poof" from the rest of the text somehow. Since you already use all caps for the text, a different way to set off the word would have to be used: bold, italics, or a font substitute. (If you can use the normal "poof sound effect" font inside the dialog bubble, that would be ideal – at least, for purposes of having the 'd, 's, and '[i]ng work.)
Yep… bad for your health…
My uncle Paul used to smoke but he doesn’t anyway.
Ha XD!
Maybe these genie powers could be used to solve the people bomb problem by making people unable to have children.
At the very least you could teleport the people with bombs somewhere they won’t hurt anyone but themselves…
If, however, you are referring to the “Humans are a plague” theory, with Genie powers, you could move Venus into an opposing orbit with one wish, terraform it with another wish, then use genie powers to move all the Environmentalists, Terrorists, Racists, etc over to the “New Earth” and let them fight each other without annoying the rest of us.
But Kudos to suggesting that forcible sterilization of the entire population by magic isn’t evil (It’s called “Genocide”)
Forget terraforming Venus, why not send them there as it is. >:)
’cause if you do that, you yourself might fit into the criteria of the wish you use to get them there, particularly if your wording includes “anyone willing to kill thousands of people because they disagree with their religion or philosophy” and wind up there yourself?
I think that Araceli is really pretty.
Nothing nicer than a litlle pink nudie poof!
Testing to see if my comment was blocked for content or some glitch.
Edit:
Content it is.
Okay, apparently I’m censored from making a comment voicing the very obvious reply to his friend who suggested they quit smoking because it makes naked girls appear out of nowhere.
This comment now contains most of those words, but fails to describe the lad’s future intentions vis-a-vis nicotine-base products.
EDIT:
…and that went through fine. This has been… enlightening. What times we live in, when what’s being censored isn’t profanity or a personal attack, but a pro-smoking statement, even in parody.
Sad.