Jeanie Bottle 254
Apr01
on April 1, 2014
at 12:00 am
and modified on July 12, 2018. at 11:35 pm
Chapter: Story 6: I Dream of a B-Witch
Characters: Araceli
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Woho!! i’m going to be childish and say “first post”,
stoners with a genie…. this can only end… hilariously : )
Only because the writer of this comic has a sense of humour. If genies were real and this wasn’t just a comic…. [shudder] the world as we know it would be over.
They only get three wishes though.
It’s no very many.
Nevermind, Frith Ra got it covered.
Michael Stipe wouldn’t mind.
It’s gauche to trumpet `First post’.
yes i agree it’s a bit “gauche” (i had to look “gauche” up in my dictionary to be sure) but i couldn’t resist ; )
I know that feeling.
That redhead is the heftiest cokehead I’ve ever seen.
@Sture89 @Raen It’s not clear whether they were hoping for coke the drug or coke the soft drink.
Lol, i never thought about it that way 😀
My first thought was coke the drink took me a few repetions of the word to realize they wanted the drug.
These guys make Araceli and Jean look like rocket surgeons and brain scientists.
I’m going to be generous and suggest they were policing for drug traffic. 🙂 ‘Cause it’s a valid interpretation.
Ah, but is just anyone at the postoffice authorized to do that or do they have to go through channels? If these idiots are not authorized, well opening somebody else’s mail is a felony.
Gotta ask… Araceli’s bottle was IN the postal network as of #188… why would it suddenly *poof* into the Cocoa Beach Post Office?
Maybe it got help from another genie?
Well, the “poof” in this case is red. Araceli’s “poofs” are blue, and Jean’s are pink, so the package arrived with help from somebody else. I don’t recall if we ever saw Guano actually “poof” anything, so I don’t know if it could be him, or an as yet unknown party.
I am guessing another genie helped it along. Probably our genie in cat form. Lord Guano seems to be more of a green themed genie lord. Though we never did see much poof smoke from either of them. Araceli is still trapped in the bottle and her smoke is blue.
I strongly doubt that the US Postal Service would be able to successfully deliver a package addressed with only “Coke Coal Beach, USA”. I’m guessing that Guano gave it a helping hand.
You laymen would be surprised at just how many people do misspell the city / town in the address. Us professionals can usually figure it out—besides, the machines have gotten real good at picking it out despite it all.
More problematic here is the lack of a state—so it could be anywhere in the United States (or even not.)
Also if it couldn’t be delivered—and there’s no return address—it would have to be destroyed.
Well there aren’t that many Cocoa Beaches in the US. Typing in “Cocoa Beach, USA” into Mapquest comes up with one, and only one, location. Without a specific address, however, it would wind up in the dead letter office after being held at the CB post office for a year or so, in case someone came into the post office and was able to identify the package (By, for example, citing the postmark from which it was mailed.)
After working at the main postal facility on Long Island, New York for 25 years, I believe they would consider it to be a bomb threat, open the box, REALY think it may be a bomb, find a safe way to open it, and release Araceli. More likely, a Genie postal employee sensed what it was and puffed it along. Hey, they hire all kinds at the Post Office. They hired me, didn’t they?
Maybe that’s the “Undeliverable Mail” Department, and they’re looking for a name in the box to deliver it to.
If it’s addressed to the city, would it go to city hall?
Fire them.
Fire the unprofessional workers. Now.
If they are not fired by the next day the USPS is going to be getting a few angry calls…
While they shouldn’t have opened that package up, the address on it is missing a lot of important information: the apartment number (don’t remember if applicable or not,), the house number, the street name, the state/territory name, the zip code, and the name of the person it’s meant for. I’d be rather suspicious of some random box that appeared out of nowhere with very little usable shipping information on it.
Not just fired. Jailed.
But if they have a genie up and running by then, they might figure out how to avoid it…
That would be a quick way to solve their overstaffing problem!
We’re understaffed right now.
Hmmm I may need a job next year where I work is cutting cost every way they can, giving voluntary redunancy to workers, giving medical redunancy to workers, letting apprentices go and adding a few more layers of management between the workers managers and the front line managers. I really wish that last one was a joke.
It’s Araceli’s bottle.She was briefly in Neil’s service and she became quite attached to him I compared this to Stockholm syndrome and Lima syndrome in which captors and captives become attached to each other.
Claiming to bring back a fan favorite character as an April Fool’s Day prank??? How cruel!
I’m *reasonably* certain that this isn’t an April Fools comic.
If they are in Cocoa Beach (a possibility as presented by Robert N.) & Aracelli is in the hands of a couple of slackers (Also a possibility based on the strip itself, though one of them might be a narc) then they are probably going to ask for something poorly thought out, like “all the money in the world” or “All the x we can ever use” then find themselves suffocating under great large gobs of paper & specie or however many tons of x. Then Aracelli can blissfully go about finding our heroes during a magic duel.
Always ask, “What can go wrong?” Especially when CD is writing it.
If it were Jeanie I’d expect something like this …
Dude I’ve got the perfect wish.
Make it man, make it.
I wish there were two hot girls here every day.
POOF
… Dude … Your hot.
7 hours later
POOF
Dude nooooo we’re only girls at work, I can’t play with my boobies.
I thought about a similarly bad wish.
“I wish I was in a room full of beautiful girls.”
(If he was in the room, and it was full of beautiful girls, then…”)
Of course they are in Cocoa Beach. We’ve seen the two stoners in the post office before. (Though I notice they don’t have their own tag) Jean went there to pick up a package and they were confused as to why that guy looked like a hot girl.
I recall they weren’t so much confused as admiring.
“Narc?” Dude, I haven’t heard that one since the Sixties, when my men’s dorm, conveniently located three blocks from the intersection of Haight Street and Ashbury Avenue, had its own live-in undercover narcotics officer. Everyone else actually called him “Narc;” I never did get his real name.
This is of course, going to be epic. Epidemically hilarious.
The hot genie is coming back!! I’m so jealous 🙁
My guess is that Rodge will show up at the post office with Caley, who will investigate the weird old bottle the disappointed stoners have set aside.
Yay! 😀 Araceli is back!
How about having them uncork her bottle she comes out and turns them into hippies.
I am guessing even if they do get 3 wishes, their wish will be so lame as to not even take advantage of cosmic powers, such as I wish for a ham sandwich, yep no one has ever asked for that*sarcasm*
On an unrelated note I just finished Shadowrun returns and its entertaining that you can throw the powerful CEO of a major corporation completely off his stride by asking for a random NPC to be fired because his aftershave offends you (he shows up 2 or 3 times and makes things difficult for you).
I can just picture a genie going “You have a being at your command who can rewrite reality and change the world to suit your whim . . . and you want a ham sandwhich?”
“I’m hungry.”
blink blink “You do understand what’s happening here right?”
The sandwich thing reminds me of Fairly OddParents. According to Norm at the beginning of Fairy Idol, the first wish anyone makes is almost always for a sandwich.
Beware the red mist.