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.
I find it hard to believe a hotel would accept a bunch of gold coins to cover one’s stay. Are all hotel clerks supposed to be able to validate the purity of the gold?
Check out goldbacks. They’re thin film gold coins laminated in plastic for durability. value depends on actual gold content t. Numerous anticounterfeiting features. Probably not available in Jeanie’s timeline, but possibly useful in ours
Small spendable denominations. Gold content is in thousandths of a troy ounce.
Current goldback exchange rate tied to gold spot market price. As I type, 1 GB is about $3.55. Currently being issued by Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and New Hampshire. Art features female embodiments of the virtues, such as Temperance, Chastity, and Patience.
@ijuinkun: Yup. That’s why GBs very carefully present as “voluntary currency” rather than as legal tender. They’re not denomiinated in dollars, for instance. Each denomination is of different size, and the art is “portrait” rather than “landscape” to avoid confusion. But GBs actually contain the physical gold they are denominated in, rather than being a note or certificate for it, Gold itself has value, and there are no U.S. laws against trading gold for whatever you want.
@mike: Perhaps GBs could be used to remind Jeanie of the virtues she lacks?
@50s: Sure, there are no laws against it (at least nobe that have been in effect since the end of Bretton-Woods), but there are also no laws requiring that any given party accept a non-legal-tender currency, which means that they can tell you “dollars or no deal” unless you are significantly overpaying. And a person who repeatedly pays $300 or more in untraceable non-legal-tender currency instead of $200 by check or credit card tends to attract suspicion.
ijuinkun: “No laws requiring..[acceptance]” True. Hence, “voluntary”. Negotiate acceptability with each merchant before use. Several states have adopted GBs semi-officially, and acceptance may be easier in those states. Their main advantages are small denominations, easy to carry, and some level of state assurance of purity. Convenience, in other words.
But frankly, I stack these to use “in the Event”, whatever that might be, when plastic or paper fiat money might be little better than trash.
I know Neil/Natalie not going to do it, but, Neil, you need to step to the plate and command your Genie to stop doing things like this and you need to act like a real Master to her now.
Neil is going to get pulled along as Jeanie pulls another one of her deeds that she so famous for doing.
Your right, Neil isn’t genie sawy. It kind of like watching wrestling on TV or seeing a live performance where your in the audience and you see grows violation of one of the wrestler on the other and we in the audience see it and we start yelling about the offense of the one wrestler on the other. The referee acts like doesn’t see a thing and that there nothing wrong. The referee choose not to see the offense because, it rile up the audience and get them emotionally engaged in the wrestling match. We all know that, but, we still like to yell about it anyway.
Neil, stop asking how Jean is going to do something and start telling her how to do it. Take charge a bit, lean into it even if you hate it. You can’t stop a charging horse, but you can guide it away from the crowd until it runs out of steam on its own. If Jean is determined to do something stupid, at least come up with options that will do the least harm.
Remember Jeanie a Genie, she can choose to poof some place and then un poof the those packages when they get to the hotel room. Best guess as to where they went.
Since Jeanie was the hot transfer blonde all she has to do is remember what she did the last time and do it all over again. this is getting closer and closer to “All You Zombies.” Will Jean get lucky with himself after prom.
Yeah……… accept present day Jeanie only has the perspective of past teenage Jean to go off. She doesnt have memories of what she hasn’t done yet. Hell she didn’t even realize until a couple of pages ago that she WAS the hot transfer blonde
Well Jeanie is still fumbling around with the ideal that she the hot transfer blonde girl that Jean remembers. That idea is still sinking in and hasn’t fully registered in her brain or mind yet. As you said, she still operating on her younger self for everything that has to do or remember, because, her older self hasn’t done it yet and she can’t use those memories that haven’t been created yet.
Or an extra room or better yet, a Presidential suit and go in style with extra large bath tube in it. Like in Move Pretty Women, one of those kind of rooms.
What are the odds that while waiting out there in front of the most expensive hotel in Cincinatti Natalie will be mistaken for a hooker. Well, she’s already been arrested as a spy…
I didn’t notice until now how femenine “Jean” has become since the first strips: cute posture, girly gestures, clothes shopping spree, petty rivalities with other girls, etc…
She’s going to use the same “borrowed” credit card (from Rita the snooty cheerleader) that she used to pay for the clothes. She isn’t going to turn Rita into a frog; she’s going to change her into a pauper.
Or into a girl in trouble with her parents for charging too much on the credit card. The parents are, most likely, the ones actually paying the monthly bill for that card.
Hee, hee, and if Rita hasn’t paid for it yet, there goes her prom gown.
Well, credit card debt, usually come in at the end of the month or generally three or four weeks after you use them. So since this is the night of the prom night, Rita has about three weeks of so before she get the bad news that here credit cards been used. By that time, Jeanie will be long gone and back in the future where she belongs.
Not entirely true. Assuming she reports a lost/stolen card she’s going to find out right away that it’s been used and that her credit limit has been exceeded. In fact, many card companies will freeze a card if something way outside of normal usage occurs, such as booking an expensive hotel room when that’s never been done before.
Poof up a bunch of gold coins at the front desk as an adult you and get the best room for the night and say Natalie is your sister.
I find it hard to believe a hotel would accept a bunch of gold coins to cover one’s stay. Are all hotel clerks supposed to be able to validate the purity of the gold?
Check out goldbacks. They’re thin film gold coins laminated in plastic for durability. value depends on actual gold content t. Numerous anticounterfeiting features. Probably not available in Jeanie’s timeline, but possibly useful in ours
Small spendable denominations. Gold content is in thousandths of a troy ounce.
Current goldback exchange rate tied to gold spot market price. As I type, 1 GB is about $3.55. Currently being issued by Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and New Hampshire. Art features female embodiments of the virtues, such as Temperance, Chastity, and Patience.
50srefugee: Temperance, Chastity, and Patience… at lest 2 of those are not our girl.
More to the point, gold has not been legal tender in the USA since before WWII.
@ijuinkun: Yup. That’s why GBs very carefully present as “voluntary currency” rather than as legal tender. They’re not denomiinated in dollars, for instance. Each denomination is of different size, and the art is “portrait” rather than “landscape” to avoid confusion. But GBs actually contain the physical gold they are denominated in, rather than being a note or certificate for it, Gold itself has value, and there are no U.S. laws against trading gold for whatever you want.
@mike: Perhaps GBs could be used to remind Jeanie of the virtues she lacks?
@50s: Sure, there are no laws against it (at least nobe that have been in effect since the end of Bretton-Woods), but there are also no laws requiring that any given party accept a non-legal-tender currency, which means that they can tell you “dollars or no deal” unless you are significantly overpaying. And a person who repeatedly pays $300 or more in untraceable non-legal-tender currency instead of $200 by check or credit card tends to attract suspicion.
ijuinkun: “No laws requiring..[acceptance]” True. Hence, “voluntary”. Negotiate acceptability with each merchant before use. Several states have adopted GBs semi-officially, and acceptance may be easier in those states. Their main advantages are small denominations, easy to carry, and some level of state assurance of purity. Convenience, in other words.
But frankly, I stack these to use “in the Event”, whatever that might be, when plastic or paper fiat money might be little better than trash.
…and gold not “worth” much more {actually, nothing is “worth” anything – it’s strictly a belief and scarcity}.
I had a book of post-apocalypse cartoons; my favourite was “Okay, Mr Big-Shot Financial Expert – how do you want your Krugerrands – fried or boiled?”
Jeannie looks like she almost threw her lower 1/2 outta whack in Panel 3.
Pushing your boundaries is good, CD. I love panel one and Natalie has never looked cuter. 🙂
Agreed. It’s rather rare that we see a centered shot of someone’s face; they’re usually a bit off-axis.
I know Neil/Natalie not going to do it, but, Neil, you need to step to the plate and command your Genie to stop doing things like this and you need to act like a real Master to her now.
Neil is going to get pulled along as Jeanie pulls another one of her deeds that she so famous for doing.
Neil is not genre savvy. Stop expecting him to understand the rules.
Your right, Neil isn’t genie sawy. It kind of like watching wrestling on TV or seeing a live performance where your in the audience and you see grows violation of one of the wrestler on the other and we in the audience see it and we start yelling about the offense of the one wrestler on the other. The referee acts like doesn’t see a thing and that there nothing wrong. The referee choose not to see the offense because, it rile up the audience and get them emotionally engaged in the wrestling match. We all know that, but, we still like to yell about it anyway.
Neil, stop asking how Jean is going to do something and start telling her how to do it. Take charge a bit, lean into it even if you hate it. You can’t stop a charging horse, but you can guide it away from the crowd until it runs out of steam on its own. If Jean is determined to do something stupid, at least come up with options that will do the least harm.
“up to,” not “up too”
What did they do with all of those packages they had? Making Jeanie behave would take all the fun out of it.
Remember Jeanie a Genie, she can choose to poof some place and then un poof the those packages when they get to the hotel room. Best guess as to where they went.
I can already tell that nothing but trouble is coming. XD
IDs are no problem. “poof” instant ID.
Since Jeanie was the hot transfer blonde all she has to do is remember what she did the last time and do it all over again. this is getting closer and closer to “All You Zombies.” Will Jean get lucky with himself after prom.
Yeah……… accept present day Jeanie only has the perspective of past teenage Jean to go off. She doesnt have memories of what she hasn’t done yet. Hell she didn’t even realize until a couple of pages ago that she WAS the hot transfer blonde
Well Jeanie is still fumbling around with the ideal that she the hot transfer blonde girl that Jean remembers. That idea is still sinking in and hasn’t fully registered in her brain or mind yet. As you said, she still operating on her younger self for everything that has to do or remember, because, her older self hasn’t done it yet and she can’t use those memories that haven’t been created yet.
A good hotel room will be handy after the prom.
Why worry about ID—she can just poof up another FLOOR.
Some hotels reserve floor 13 for this purpose :-).
Hotels in Japan never have a 4th floor. You will never find four of anything packaged together–unless it was made by gaijins.
At least in 1984 {when the World SF Convention was there} the Hilton across the street from DIsneyland had a 13th floor.
It did not, however, have a 10th floor.
It once HAD a 10th and didn’t have a 13th, but…
The problem was with a new phone system they had put in; the way it worked, numbers beginning with “10” were system-reserved.
So, we’ll eliminate the 10th floor room numbers.
Oh, noes – we’ll have to renumber every room on the current 10th through 20th floors.
Nope just the new 11th, 12th and 13th floors! Aren’t we brilliant?
Or an extra room or better yet, a Presidential suit and go in style with extra large bath tube in it. Like in Move Pretty Women, one of those kind of rooms.
What are the odds that while waiting out there in front of the most expensive hotel in Cincinatti Natalie will be mistaken for a hooker. Well, she’s already been arrested as a spy…
She’s not dressed anything like one, so that seems rather unlikely.
I do kind of like the nickname “Cincinnati Natalie,” it has a certain ring to it.
I didn’t notice until now how femenine “Jean” has become since the first strips: cute posture, girly gestures, clothes shopping spree, petty rivalities with other girls, etc…
Maybe she’s going to bring back Rodge to pay for it. Although he will promptly have a stroke if he sees a teenage Natalie in that outfit.
Maybe she’s poofed further into the past to create genuine identities for both of them.
That’s an interesting idea… but probably outside of the scope of Jeanie’s thinking.
If she brings Rodge back to rent the room-A guy with two teenage girls is a no no. Will she tg poor old rodge into the big sister?
actually a guy with two girls would be a old sitcom three company though they were older
wait here where she going to go without Jean and her magic
She’s going to use the same “borrowed” credit card (from Rita the snooty cheerleader) that she used to pay for the clothes. She isn’t going to turn Rita into a frog; she’s going to change her into a pauper.
Or into a girl in trouble with her parents for charging too much on the credit card. The parents are, most likely, the ones actually paying the monthly bill for that card.
Hee, hee, and if Rita hasn’t paid for it yet, there goes her prom gown.
Well, credit card debt, usually come in at the end of the month or generally three or four weeks after you use them. So since this is the night of the prom night, Rita has about three weeks of so before she get the bad news that here credit cards been used. By that time, Jeanie will be long gone and back in the future where she belongs.
Not entirely true. Assuming she reports a lost/stolen card she’s going to find out right away that it’s been used and that her credit limit has been exceeded. In fact, many card companies will freeze a card if something way outside of normal usage occurs, such as booking an expensive hotel room when that’s never been done before.
That top with those pants on Natalie doe not work, she needs a proper skirt, and Jeanie and Natalie both need high heels, and pantyhose
The top isn’t bad, but you’re right about the slacks. Still, Natalie needs to find a more flattering color than her trademark green.