Jeanie Bottle 264
Jul15
on July 15, 2014
at 12:00 am
and modified on March 7, 2023. at 12:11 am
Chapter: Story 06: I Dream of a B-Witch
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*gasp* Arceli has a tan now! Hooray! (It’s a good look for her)
Agreed!
I believe it’s just the lighting; everyone looks a little darker.
…But she does look better that way.
Too dark.
exciting!!
Why is there a Roger statue in the room?
Sorry, a Rodge statue?
From the way that Araceli is talking to the statue, I would assume that it is Rodge himself, petrified as a punishment for being too annoying to Araceli and/or Caley. I doubt he’ll remain that way for more than a few pages though.
So, Araceli is related to Guano, huh? She calls him “Uncle”, so even if she isn’t literally his niece, he likely considers her to be as close as if she were. That means that he either is going to show her favoritism (especially in her conflict with Jean), or else he rides her extra-hard to drive her to do better.
So I wonder what punishment awaits araceli?
Punishment? What has *she* done wrong, in Guano’s eyes?
That depends upon whether she gets blamed for what Jean did in Greece.
The Rodge statue seems problematic.
The Rodge statue may have been a wish of Caley’s. Caley released Araceli, so she gets 3 wishes, right? And, I’m glad to see the nurturing side of Araceli with the blanket for a sleeping Caley.
Guano is likely there to task Araceli with keeping tabs on Jean or putting her through a test or something.
The thing she was worried Sam was there for.
I would hope there was something in the rules about the nurturing genie type turning the person nominally responsible for a child into a stone statue for doing something the child doesn’t like.
Wow…I did not see that last part coming.
Please don’t do anymore horrible things like this =_= this is too horrible for me to enjoy… it creeps me out when i usually like the silly fun of this comic.
264 comics, and how many Horrible things have I done? I’m pretty sure the ratio is pretty low.
Well you have not shown Natalie for a long while and that is pretty horrible 🙂
What do you find so objectionable about this page? Rodge being a statue? That’s hardly likely to last more than a page.
Yeah…Jeanie herself was always teleporting her master or Healey to the south pole, onto a branch hanging above hungry crocodiles, or somesuch dangerous situation.
Getting Stoned for a while is mild.
Well, she did mail herself somewhere other than where, presumably, she was supposed to be…
Actaully, Jeanie had the bottle mailed before she was returned to her original bottle, and Araceli returned to her’s. So Araceli has not done anything wrong, not that Guano is rational or even all that bright so who knows how he’ll interpret things.
What is her uncle doing there? And if she was left to squad in her bottle for who knows how long, I doubt he’s bothering to check up on her for the sake of family! I doubt her master has done anything that break the code of ‘do’s and don’t’s’. And I really wish we had seen more of a child having fun with the power of a genie at their command.
My speculation on why Lord Guano has shown up: Last he knew Jeanie was in training and the blue bottle was in the ocean. He somehow learned that Araceli was back in her old bottle and he homed in on the bottle to check up on her. Now he’s going to go off on Araceli about why she is back in her old bottle and why has she turned her master into a statue. Araceli may, or may not, get to explain that Caley is her new master . . .
How would Uncle Guano know they ever switched bottles?
It’s possible he knew, being a Djinn Lord, but then he would also know they switched back.
Last Guano knew, Jean was in training with Kazom.
But he also knew when Jean became a djinn.
Did Caley wish to be a djinn? Araceli is not adressing her as “Mistress.”
This is probably just a standard check up. Though there may be something in the genie rules about how a genie may grant wishes for a child. Kazom may be able to explain that a bit.
Ever seen the movie Duplex? Eventually the old lady will be really be dead instead of just faking it in order to scam people so they’ll move out.
Both the Lima and Stockholm syndromes interest me greatly.
I think Arcelli has a cruel streak in her. She tortured Neil in the Tower of London, tried to switch places with Jean, and turned Roger to stone. kind of reminds me of Jeanie’s sister from the series.
I wonder what Rodger’s reaction will be to being stone. Unless he was unconscious, I suspect he will be a bit peeved at Arcelli. Of course he might of enjoy the experience and not mind.
Anyone else think that Araceli, Rodge, and Caley look very much like a family in this one?
Can’t fault Ari for turning somebody into stone who only knows how to make boxed mac’n’cheese.
Every adult must be able to make
1. Mac’n’cheese from scratch, with onions and diced ham.
2. spaghetti with meat sauce more or less from scratch
3. Pancakes or waffles.
4. Tuna casserole.
5. Tuna salad. Use good tuna and eggs & pickle relish, dammit; canned fish mush and mayo is not tuna salad. Sheesh.
6. Grilled meat of some kind, even hot dogs.
7. Bacon and eggs.
8. Stew.
(Adjust for your local culture.)
Eight dishes is enough to eat something different every day, and not eat the same thing on any given day of the week.
In addition, you should be able to prepare rice and mashed potatoes.
For extra credit, know how to make one specialty dish, something you can’t easily get in a restaurant. (Mine is Eggs Benedict.)
You really should know how to put together a simple white sauce(foundation for the cheese sauce in man’n’cheese), and brown gravy from a roux.
If you cannot do these things, you cannot take care of yourself; thus, you are not an adult, and have no place in adult councils. Hush your mouth and let the grownups talk.
But I can’t stand #1,4 and 5. Plus you left off soup.
Soup requires a dab hand with seasoning. Don’t know why stew is easier, but it is for me. I’ve made good soup, mind, but it’s not on my basic list.
I will accept chili as a substitute, even if you use spice packets.
Your taste in food is abysmal. Further, things like ‘mac and cheese,’ ‘spaghetti, ‘tuna salad,’ and ‘hot dogs’ are not ‘adult’ foods. Waffles and pancakes are breakfast foods, not dinner foods. If you’re going to be condescending and call people not adults, at least have your own ducks in order, first.
#1) Anything with cheese is plain nasty.
#2) Anything with sauce is plain nasty.
#3) Eggo waffles + toaster. Not really an advanced topic there.
#4) Anything with tuna is abso-bleeping-nasty.
#5) Anything with tuna is abso-bleeping-nasty.
#6) Hot dogs are an abomination. They are not a real food. The pink slime that mcdonalds’ uses is better for you than that.
#7) Many, many, many different types of eggs. Boiled, Fried, Scrambled, what now?
#8) 1 Can Campbells soup, 1 bowl, 1 microwave.
Baked potatoes are far superior to mashed potatoes and require less work/effort/supplies/cleaning.
Sauce/gravy, again, is plain nasty.
If you can’t have your own garden, get to a farmer’s market or organic food stand and get fresh veggies and fruits. Smaller, less-mercury-prone fish (salmon, cod, etc) should be eaten once a week.
Sorry, Annabelle, but you really need to look in the mirror when speaking of abysmal food tastes. Sauces are the basis of a lot of French haute cusine. Knowing how to make a good sauce is mandatory. Anything with cheese is nasty? Really!? That’s just absurd.
Making good waffles or pancakes, from scratch, is nothing like Eggos and yes, waffles can be a good dinner food with the correct sauce . . . 😉
I’m with you on tuna, but that’s just me because I don’t like fish in general, so it’s a personal preference not a general rule. Even so, I once had a fish course in a French restaurant that was fantastic, at least partially due to the sauce that was included.
In general I agree with 50srefugee on the ability to cook being a part of being an adult. One can disagree on the particulars, but my mother said that if nothing else you should be able to cook eggs.
“Haute cuisine” is not, by definition, food for the masses. Meat, potatoes (or rice), and fresh veggies – that is the foundation of a solid meal. You don’t want things gooey or slimy on the dinner plate, especially not if you’re trying to get children to eat it, too. People pour sauces (gravies, catsups, mustards, weird French sauces, etc) over their meat and potatoes to cover up the natural flavors of what they’re eating.
Precious few people (in richer countries) truly make pancakes/waffles from scratch. They grab mix out of the grocery store, stir it up with a little bit of water, and pour it in the skillet or waffle iron. There’s not /that/ much difference between a Krusteaz or Bisquick mixes and pre-made frozen waffles and pancakes.
The ability to cook may be an indicator of being an adult (that is, shows at least some ability to take care of ones self), but it isn’t mandatory nor is it absolute. I was cooking (some of the) meals and baking all desserts (except my own birthday cake) from the day I stepped into high school; wasn’t an adult then.
In a household where household chores and tasks are divided, one of the adults there can very well get buy without cooking if the other does so.
I am at loss with your aversion ot gravies and sauces. But fine: substitute other dishes at your leisure. I’m looking for relatively simple, stick-to-your ribs staples here.
However, prepared foods will not do for my purposes here. I’m not saying you should eat only from this list, or even mostly from it. My manifesto is that you should know the basic techniques of cookery-and yes, you should be able to at least boil or fry eggs to your taste (hard boiled eggs are too useful to not know how to do that). You should be able to whip up more than a week’s worth of dishes more or less from scratch. I live mostly out of restaurants and the freezer, but I am not dependent on them.
And again: if the most you can do with a can of soup is nuke it, then in my mind that pretty much disqualifies you from this discussion. If that satisfies you, fine, but you must be able to put on a good show for impromptu guests.
No, being able to cook for yourself isn’t the be all and end all of adulthood, but it is one of the minimum requirements.
If I had guests over, I certainly wouldn’t be serving soup – from a can or no. And there’s never “impromptu guests” at a meal time: that’s just plain rude.
A selection of meat and cuts combined with different ways of doing potatoes (substituting rice as required) combined with different vegetables serves well to having much more than just a week’s worth of foods.
Pork chops w/ or w/o bone (tenderloin cuts).
Chicken breast.
Ham.
Roast (pork or beef).
Fish (salmon, cod, flounder, perch) generally baked.
Various cuts of beef (though (eye of) round is generally in the budget’s range).
Of course hamburger patties (requiring a good selection of fresh veggies on the sandwich: spinach, romaine lettuce perhaps, tomato, cucumber, possibly shredded carrot. Dill pickles aren’t exactly “fresh” but to my mind, they belong on burgers).
Then add to the meat:
Baked potato
Mashed potato (preferable to use the small red ones w/ the skin still on)
Boiled potato
Fries (ideally, cut your own potatoes up, but nothing wrong with store-bought ones), generally baked to avoid the excess grease.
Steamed rice (season to taste)
Could replace this starchy side with noodles served w/ butter and salt/pepper.
Veggies:
Corn (on the cob is easiest if you get it fresh). Technically not a vegetable, but generally served as such
Carrots (raw, baby carrots are best. Cooked carrots are too mushy for my taste)
Spinach (raw, baby spinach is better than cooked)
Green Peas (prefer fresh, in the pod, and raw)
Green Beans, Broccoli, and Asparagus are good additions as well, if you can tolerate them (sometimes fresh asparagus for me, but not the others under any circumstance)
And of course, the veggie side can be substituted out for a fresh salad (romaine lettuce, baby spinach, tomato, cucumber, shredded carrot, radish, etc)
7x meats (disregarding different cuts, styles of cooking, and types of fish)
6x starchy sides (potatoes, rice, noodles)
5x veggies (leaving out the broccoli, green beans, asparagus)
210 different combinations. Take more than seven or eight days to work through that. 😉
If you wish to make anything from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Also, you must never, ever, except in direst emergencies, lower yourself to eating canned soup without being able to season it beyond salt and pepper. What are you, some kind of savage?
Good God man, canned soup already contains too much salt and you want to add more?
No, I didn’t say salt, I said seasoning, beyond salt and pepper.
Is Lord Guano her uncle I wonder, or did she just mispoke?
I think it is a case of Lord Guano being both her uncle and her ‘boss.’ So at first she saw her uncle, and then realized that he was there as her boss.