Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie is a film, book, and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through email, which means he doesn't have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found an empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle, Jean became the bottle’s new genie-powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle should look like. Which, due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show, turned him into a busty blonde woman.
A junior engineer working for a small engineering firm in Cocoa Beach. The firm focuses mostly on NASA projects.
Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil became Jeanie’s master.
Had to finally catch up. On thr plus side. This guy didnmade a cameo on wishmakers so he manages to bounce back up again. This pandemic made me upset to lose alot ofnrestaurants along with my fathers work at the hotel. So rest assure you will see him soon
Not really no, you can get fined or go to jury services. Also. Restaurants can report counterfeit bills regardless of the years date as they do itinery checks.
The guy is old wnd wouldnt know, as this was one time incident.
But because its repeated it can complicate matters worse!
However. He would not pleas guilty because of security cams
The weird thing here is that in two years, even the Secret Service wouldn’t be able tell if it was real or not. They will probably think it is one of those “super notes”.
I think the “Super Notes” were all 100s, which is why the Big Bens came first.
Also, the bills in the change the customer is examining would most likely be ones and maybe fives.
Decades ago I came across a time travel story called “The Woodrow Wilson Dime”. Soon we’re going to have Twenties with Harriet Tubman instead of Andrew Jackson.
Most counterfeit bills are either twenties or hundreds because it’s far too expensive to waste the time on anything less. Twenties because those are the bills most used for retail and hundreds because those are the bills most used in crime. I’ve even seen suggestions that the US government recall all hundred dollar bills because most of them aren’t used for anything but crime,
Fives and tens are rarely counterfeited because it costs just as much to print them so the risk simply isn’t worth the reward. A one like the one this guy just received in change simply wouldn’t be worth counterfeiting because it would probably cost more than a dollar to print it.
Long time ago now, probably in the 80s, some local kids got the bright idea to xerox dollar bills and feed the copies to laundromat change machines, which were dumb enough to accept them at the time. I believe they avoided hard time, but the Feds made it VERY clear to them that the Treasury Department does not screw around when it comes to counterfeiting.
I looked at what cash I have handy, and the series dates range from 2009 to 2017.
Wait a minute 2 years so Jean and Neil are 20 years old so Neil didn’t need college or a year number mistake was made cause it doesn’t make sense with his NASA job?
Jean claimed to be 23 back in the Melvin storyline, so is probably 24 “now”. This puts their senior year of high school about six years ago. Jean and Neil moved to Cocoa Beach a few weeks before the start of the comic, so it’s possible that Neil’s job at Jupiter Two Engineering is his first post-college position.
Yeah, looks like a stable closed-loop situation. They’re doing exactly what lead things being the way they are in the present, they’ve simply caught up to when they caused them, and it doesn’t matter if they realize or not, as everything they do has already happened, they just haven’t done it yet.
The best part of timeline stories is you can say a statement like this, “they’ve simply caught up to when they caused them, and it doesn’t matter if they realize or not, as everything they do has already happened, they just haven’t done it yet.” And it makes perfect sense to everyone.
However that’s assuming memory isn’t being changed instantly as a result of changes made to the past. Only a being removed from time can remember the unaltered past which I assume Jeanne can do.. maybe.
Kid, agent Anderson will try to confiscate your dollar bill. Don’t let her do it. It is a real dollar bill and is now a misprint. To a collector that thing will pay off your student debt. Hang on to it but get rid of it before the two years come around and its just a dollar then.
Don’t forget, at this point in time agent Anderson is still a guy. And yes, if it is just a one or a five, it could very well be regarded as a misprint. Mistakes at the Mint happen a lot, but the Mint tries to very hard catch them before they get out. They don’t always succeed and those mistake bills are worth a LOT to collectors.
When the series number on currency changes, it can be because the design changes, but also because one of the two signatures (Sec’y of the Treasury, Treasurer of the US) changes. The latter would not be a mere misprint. I remember both the SF stories with the person’s signature on the future bill and with Wilson instead of FDR on the dime. The former was.a time-travel story, while the latter was a parallel universe one. Published before 1980, I believe.
Wait a second… does that mean Jean put them out of business? Because she went back 2 years and made Neil use his money from the future.
Also, getting a $20 bill would not shut down a restaurant. I worked at one and when ever we found one we’d report it to the police. They wouldn’t shut us down, they would take the bill and dispose of it.
Police would turn it over to the Secret Service. Counterfeiting and certain other financial crimes are the latter’s jurisdiction, as part of the Treasury Dept. The SecServ does more than executive protection…
IIRC, Executive protection is actually the Secret Services secondary job, as they were originally created for the purpose of investigating counterfeiting
As I mentioned elsewhere, the restaurant doesn’t have to have been “shut down” by any authorities. A simple rumor that they give out counterfeit change could just as easily kill their business by reducing their customer base just enough to kill their profit margins.
I remember a [new] “Twilight Zone” episode where somebody turned up a 1964 Kennedy half dollar—remember those?—right after the assassination was prevented in 1963. The theory was that anybody would could make something like that to exact Mint standards would have to know it was illegal.
Since the bill was real it probably ended up on unsolved mysteries and in a tabloid….lol the guy is probably rich and living it up someplace warm and glad he didn’t have a business during pandemic. Lol being positive.
I just went through my wallet. I had two $1 bills: series 2013 and 2017; a $5 series 2013; and six $20 bills: one series 2001, one series 2006, two series 2009, and two series 2013. Why should the dollar bills in Neil’s wallet be any less diverse? Bills circulate until they’re judged to be too worn out, a process that can take years.
There are all kinds of counterfeit bills. One counterfeiter drew $1 bills by hand.
In 1968, black comedian Godfrey Cambridge ran a short, but serious campaign for President. His campaign printed up fliers that looked like $1 bills, but with his picture instead of George Washington. Some folks discovered that coin changers accepted the things, and their was a run on them. When the Cambridge for President Campaign found out they got back all the fliers they could and BURNED them.
And the companies that manufactured coin changers made their devices a lot more sensitive. That why the things often balk at real dollars.
Back in the early 70s a small kiddy theme park named “Santa’s Village” handed out “Twee Dollar bills” with a park map on the back. Unfortunately the front looked exactly like a real $20 bill except for “Twee” instead of “Twenty and the number 3 in the corner. They might have gotten away with it if they’d bothered to replace Andrew Jackson with Santa. These days they’re considered collectable ephemera
A couple years ago some locals were giving out “million dollar” bills to trick-or-treaters with a long inscription on the back in ridiculously convoluted language and incredibly minute text reminding the kiddies how they were all going to hell for satanic idolatry, just in case you somehow needed to be reminded that evangelical christianity is a psychotic death cult.
During the 20th century, totalitarian regimes killed over 100 million (Nazis–20 million, Stalin–30 million, Mao–80 million, Pol Pot–3 million, etc.) on behalf of their ideologies. How many people were killed by evangelical Christians? Evangelical Christianity is relatively recent–well post-Reformation. Centuries ago, there were the Crusades, as well as Inquisitions, but those were the Church of Rome, and likely did not reach a million casualties over many more years.
I don’t know what belief system is yours, but I bet it has its adherents who are bigoted and intolerant.
@Tramline, unbending fundamentalists are unpleasant at least when you just encounter them alone. But whenever they reach critical mass to dominate any discussion… Doesn’t matter whether they are Stalinist commies, Neonazis, Confucianist scholars, firm Wahhabites or American evangelicals: Once they have the power to dominate society/politics, things go bad.
And Pilgrim isn’t totally wrong, Christians pray to the figurine of an executed criminal, waiting for him to return for a second time. Which is, according to Evangelicals, the point that all infidels are to be put into hell. The potential for that to be turned into a death cult ideology is not negligible.
Don’t forget, Islamism was only created when some muslims were deliberately whipped into a frenzy by Western (mostly British and American, but also Nazi German) agencies, for a fleeting tactical advantage over their enemies back in that day. Who says Christians are above such manipulation?
That happened a lot. I am not sure how many Mr Cambridge printed, but it was probably less than the 1-2 million “genuine 3 dollar bills” Mad Magazine printed in the 1967. ( https://www.spmc.org/blog/mad-magazine-and-its-troublesome-three-dollar-bill )
They also worked as 1 dollar bills in coin changers, despite having Alfred E Nueman’s picture, and “3”s in the corners, only 1 side printed, and being cut out of a magazine. People were reported for buying hundreds of the magazines at 25 cents each, then using the fake bill in the changers to get a dollar in coins..
The interesting thing here is, a few bills wouldn’t get the restaurant in trouble, as unknowingly accepting a counterfeit bill isn’t a crime. The only way it would be a problem for the restaurant if the bills kept showing up on a regular basis.
This implies that Jean has gone back numerous times, spending “future money” every time.
Not necessarily. The restaurant doesn’t need to get in trouble with the law to end up being closed. If they just get a bad reputation for “giving out counterfeit change”, no matter how false that actually is, it could still kill their business. Restaurant run on razor thin margins. Even a 10% drop in their customer base could spell disaster.
Back when I was a kid it wasn’t counterfeit dollars but counterfeit dimes. There was a two cent deposit on soda battles. They were glass way back then. the kids would cruise the ditches until they found one and cash it in for the two cents. They found out that if they ground off the rim against the concrete curb they woeked just like dimes in the soda machines. Then they would cash in the bottle somewhere else and sit on the curb grinding off two more pennies. Enterprising wernt they. Sodas were twenty cents a bottle back then.
When they first started putting beverages in pull-tab cans where the tab separated completely from the can to become dangerously sharp and annoying litter, the ring on the tab was the diameter of a dime. You could easily beak it off and use it in a parking meter. I used them until at least 1972. That was an hour of parking in a small town.
Eh, it wouldn’t even be a blip on the feds’ radar. A family friend used to be a banker, and she encountered counterfeit bills all the time, they get passed around a lot more than you’d think. Being made with the exact same blank bills and ink as the real thing and having a date from the future might get people talking, but a couple bills of funny money isn’t enough evidence to prove anything. If any authorities got involved, they’d likely believe the owner when he told them the truth.
Incidentally, Canada uses the exact same bill blanks that we do. Our Federal Reserve and the Canadian Bank Note Company order from the same supplier. Think about it. Canada has a fraction of the population, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense for manufacturers of vending machines, ATMs, change machines, and anything else that accepts or dispenses bank notes to make a special version that accepts bills of different dimensions just for them (all they have to do is swap the module that reads the bill). It makes replacement parts for these machines easier to source as well, especially after old models cease production.
Well that explains that but Jean and Neil may never know.
Had to finally catch up. On thr plus side. This guy didnmade a cameo on wishmakers so he manages to bounce back up again. This pandemic made me upset to lose alot ofnrestaurants along with my fathers work at the hotel. So rest assure you will see him soon
at present he is in jail for forgery
we don’t know that part for sure, since the rumor was never confirmed.
Might just be that the restaurant closed down due to getting an unfair reputation for handing out counterfeit bills, and losing too much business.
and he vowed revenge against that sexy busty blonde and the fool who accompanied her.
Not really no, you can get fined or go to jury services. Also. Restaurants can report counterfeit bills regardless of the years date as they do itinery checks.
The guy is old wnd wouldnt know, as this was one time incident.
But because its repeated it can complicate matters worse!
However. He would not pleas guilty because of security cams
Enter: anne anderson!!
The weird thing here is that in two years, even the Secret Service wouldn’t be able tell if it was real or not. They will probably think it is one of those “super notes”.
I think the “Super Notes” were all 100s, which is why the Big Bens came first.
Also, the bills in the change the customer is examining would most likely be ones and maybe fives.
Decades ago I came across a time travel story called “The Woodrow Wilson Dime”. Soon we’re going to have Twenties with Harriet Tubman instead of Andrew Jackson.
Most counterfeit bills are either twenties or hundreds because it’s far too expensive to waste the time on anything less. Twenties because those are the bills most used for retail and hundreds because those are the bills most used in crime. I’ve even seen suggestions that the US government recall all hundred dollar bills because most of them aren’t used for anything but crime,
Fives and tens are rarely counterfeited because it costs just as much to print them so the risk simply isn’t worth the reward. A one like the one this guy just received in change simply wouldn’t be worth counterfeiting because it would probably cost more than a dollar to print it.
Long time ago now, probably in the 80s, some local kids got the bright idea to xerox dollar bills and feed the copies to laundromat change machines, which were dumb enough to accept them at the time. I believe they avoided hard time, but the Feds made it VERY clear to them that the Treasury Department does not screw around when it comes to counterfeiting.
I looked at what cash I have handy, and the series dates range from 2009 to 2017.
Will Agent Anderson be investigating the counterfeiting
Anderson works for the wrong agency but there is always the possibility of a multi-agency task force.
Probably not. This is 10 or so years back, I don’t think HE was an agent at that time. He might still be in college, or high school like our protags…
Wait a minute 2 years so Jean and Neil are 20 years old so Neil didn’t need college or a year number mistake was made cause it doesn’t make sense with his NASA job?
It may just be a very old bill. I’m sure some people today still have bills dated for the mid 90s.
Ahh good point they never said what year thanks for correcting me my mistake on that sorry CD and Robert for that.
Jean claimed to be 23 back in the Melvin storyline, so is probably 24 “now”. This puts their senior year of high school about six years ago. Jean and Neil moved to Cocoa Beach a few weeks before the start of the comic, so it’s possible that Neil’s job at Jupiter Two Engineering is his first post-college position.
Unknowingly called it in Discord…
Well.. we can’t say they are messing up the timeline. So far everything is going as it was destined to … right?
Yeah, looks like a stable closed-loop situation. They’re doing exactly what lead things being the way they are in the present, they’ve simply caught up to when they caused them, and it doesn’t matter if they realize or not, as everything they do has already happened, they just haven’t done it yet.
The best part of timeline stories is you can say a statement like this, “they’ve simply caught up to when they caused them, and it doesn’t matter if they realize or not, as everything they do has already happened, they just haven’t done it yet.” And it makes perfect sense to everyone.
However that’s assuming memory isn’t being changed instantly as a result of changes made to the past. Only a being removed from time can remember the unaltered past which I assume Jeanne can do.. maybe.
I would like to see the response to Neil’s comment something to the effect, “You think you’re the only time traveler?”
Kid, agent Anderson will try to confiscate your dollar bill. Don’t let her do it. It is a real dollar bill and is now a misprint. To a collector that thing will pay off your student debt. Hang on to it but get rid of it before the two years come around and its just a dollar then.
Don’t forget, at this point in time agent Anderson is still a guy. And yes, if it is just a one or a five, it could very well be regarded as a misprint. Mistakes at the Mint happen a lot, but the Mint tries to very hard catch them before they get out. They don’t always succeed and those mistake bills are worth a LOT to collectors.
The US Mint makes (strikes) coins. Bills come from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
When the series number on currency changes, it can be because the design changes, but also because one of the two signatures (Sec’y of the Treasury, Treasurer of the US) changes. The latter would not be a mere misprint. I remember both the SF stories with the person’s signature on the future bill and with Wilson instead of FDR on the dime. The former was.a time-travel story, while the latter was a parallel universe one. Published before 1980, I believe.
Wait a second… does that mean Jean put them out of business? Because she went back 2 years and made Neil use his money from the future.
Also, getting a $20 bill would not shut down a restaurant. I worked at one and when ever we found one we’d report it to the police. They wouldn’t shut us down, they would take the bill and dispose of it.
Police would turn it over to the Secret Service. Counterfeiting and certain other financial crimes are the latter’s jurisdiction, as part of the Treasury Dept. The SecServ does more than executive protection…
IIRC, Executive protection is actually the Secret Services secondary job, as they were originally created for the purpose of investigating counterfeiting
As I mentioned elsewhere, the restaurant doesn’t have to have been “shut down” by any authorities. A simple rumor that they give out counterfeit change could just as easily kill their business by reducing their customer base just enough to kill their profit margins.
Oh Jean, you just had to carelessly break one of the most important financial rules of time traveling, didn’t you?
I remember a [new] “Twilight Zone” episode where somebody turned up a 1964 Kennedy half dollar—remember those?—right after the assassination was prevented in 1963. The theory was that anybody would could make something like that to exact Mint standards would have to know it was illegal.
Since the bill was real it probably ended up on unsolved mysteries and in a tabloid….lol the guy is probably rich and living it up someplace warm and glad he didn’t have a business during pandemic. Lol being positive.
I just went through my wallet. I had two $1 bills: series 2013 and 2017; a $5 series 2013; and six $20 bills: one series 2001, one series 2006, two series 2009, and two series 2013. Why should the dollar bills in Neil’s wallet be any less diverse? Bills circulate until they’re judged to be too worn out, a process that can take years.
There are all kinds of counterfeit bills. One counterfeiter drew $1 bills by hand.
In 1968, black comedian Godfrey Cambridge ran a short, but serious campaign for President. His campaign printed up fliers that looked like $1 bills, but with his picture instead of George Washington. Some folks discovered that coin changers accepted the things, and their was a run on them. When the Cambridge for President Campaign found out they got back all the fliers they could and BURNED them.
And the companies that manufactured coin changers made their devices a lot more sensitive. That why the things often balk at real dollars.
Back in the early 70s a small kiddy theme park named “Santa’s Village” handed out “Twee Dollar bills” with a park map on the back. Unfortunately the front looked exactly like a real $20 bill except for “Twee” instead of “Twenty and the number 3 in the corner. They might have gotten away with it if they’d bothered to replace Andrew Jackson with Santa. These days they’re considered collectable ephemera
A couple years ago some locals were giving out “million dollar” bills to trick-or-treaters with a long inscription on the back in ridiculously convoluted language and incredibly minute text reminding the kiddies how they were all going to hell for satanic idolatry, just in case you somehow needed to be reminded that evangelical christianity is a psychotic death cult.
During the 20th century, totalitarian regimes killed over 100 million (Nazis–20 million, Stalin–30 million, Mao–80 million, Pol Pot–3 million, etc.) on behalf of their ideologies. How many people were killed by evangelical Christians? Evangelical Christianity is relatively recent–well post-Reformation. Centuries ago, there were the Crusades, as well as Inquisitions, but those were the Church of Rome, and likely did not reach a million casualties over many more years.
I don’t know what belief system is yours, but I bet it has its adherents who are bigoted and intolerant.
@Tramline, unbending fundamentalists are unpleasant at least when you just encounter them alone. But whenever they reach critical mass to dominate any discussion… Doesn’t matter whether they are Stalinist commies, Neonazis, Confucianist scholars, firm Wahhabites or American evangelicals: Once they have the power to dominate society/politics, things go bad.
And Pilgrim isn’t totally wrong, Christians pray to the figurine of an executed criminal, waiting for him to return for a second time. Which is, according to Evangelicals, the point that all infidels are to be put into hell. The potential for that to be turned into a death cult ideology is not negligible.
Don’t forget, Islamism was only created when some muslims were deliberately whipped into a frenzy by Western (mostly British and American, but also Nazi German) agencies, for a fleeting tactical advantage over their enemies back in that day. Who says Christians are above such manipulation?
That happened a lot. I am not sure how many Mr Cambridge printed, but it was probably less than the 1-2 million “genuine 3 dollar bills” Mad Magazine printed in the 1967. ( https://www.spmc.org/blog/mad-magazine-and-its-troublesome-three-dollar-bill )
They also worked as 1 dollar bills in coin changers, despite having Alfred E Nueman’s picture, and “3”s in the corners, only 1 side printed, and being cut out of a magazine. People were reported for buying hundreds of the magazines at 25 cents each, then using the fake bill in the changers to get a dollar in coins..
The interesting thing here is, a few bills wouldn’t get the restaurant in trouble, as unknowingly accepting a counterfeit bill isn’t a crime. The only way it would be a problem for the restaurant if the bills kept showing up on a regular basis.
This implies that Jean has gone back numerous times, spending “future money” every time.
Not necessarily. The restaurant doesn’t need to get in trouble with the law to end up being closed. If they just get a bad reputation for “giving out counterfeit change”, no matter how false that actually is, it could still kill their business. Restaurant run on razor thin margins. Even a 10% drop in their customer base could spell disaster.
stupid paradox-correcting timetravel
“And The beat go’s on” Hummm
“Jeanie, you can’t do that! You’ve changed history. You’ve created a Time Paradox!”. “TIME PARADOX.”
*MGS Action Theme*
I wonder if the class theme song at prom will be “Hotel California.”
The theme could just as easily be I Dream of Jeanie since the show ran from ’65-’70.
Back when I was a kid it wasn’t counterfeit dollars but counterfeit dimes. There was a two cent deposit on soda battles. They were glass way back then. the kids would cruise the ditches until they found one and cash it in for the two cents. They found out that if they ground off the rim against the concrete curb they woeked just like dimes in the soda machines. Then they would cash in the bottle somewhere else and sit on the curb grinding off two more pennies. Enterprising wernt they. Sodas were twenty cents a bottle back then.
When they first started putting beverages in pull-tab cans where the tab separated completely from the can to become dangerously sharp and annoying litter, the ring on the tab was the diameter of a dime. You could easily beak it off and use it in a parking meter. I used them until at least 1972. That was an hour of parking in a small town.
Of course he gets the one guy who notices the year on their change bills.
Woah… I called that pretty well, though it’s going farther than I thought.
(Referring to my comment last page. I don’t care how old this comic is; I just found out about it last Tuesday.)
Oh. Well, at least this has happened before.
Eh, it wouldn’t even be a blip on the feds’ radar. A family friend used to be a banker, and she encountered counterfeit bills all the time, they get passed around a lot more than you’d think. Being made with the exact same blank bills and ink as the real thing and having a date from the future might get people talking, but a couple bills of funny money isn’t enough evidence to prove anything. If any authorities got involved, they’d likely believe the owner when he told them the truth.
Incidentally, Canada uses the exact same bill blanks that we do. Our Federal Reserve and the Canadian Bank Note Company order from the same supplier. Think about it. Canada has a fraction of the population, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense for manufacturers of vending machines, ATMs, change machines, and anything else that accepts or dispenses bank notes to make a special version that accepts bills of different dimensions just for them (all they have to do is swap the module that reads the bill). It makes replacement parts for these machines easier to source as well, especially after old models cease production.