Jeanie Bottle 704
Nov08
on November 8, 2022
at 12:00 am
and modified on December 27, 2022. at 1:22 am
Chapter: Story 15: I Dream of Three Wishes
Characters: Jeanie
Sassy Jeanie is cute!
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Sassy Jeanie is cute!
Well, you got your 3 irreversible wishes as said by Jean can’t complain about it to your friend until he is on break.
I can bet she is trying to stop the changed female from changing back by wasting her(his) friends wish. The bottle vanished a couple of weeks ago to prevent the next try at getting more wishes. It will be interesting seeing what happens over the next couple of weeks.
Jeannie is really cute with that sassy style.
I wonder why Jeanie recommended that drink; sex on the beach. I think it’s part of getting Red Shirt (Red Blouse) to accept her transformation, to start thinking like a female AND to start enjoying being Blue Shirt’s girlfriend. I enjoy reading about M2F transformations, but the mental transformation is, for me, as much fun to read about as the physical one.
Does anybody else agree with me on that?
Agreed, it’s fun, all right. Probably a lot less fun for those actually in the situation, mind you…
Only until the transform starts triggering female instincts and emotions.
Glad I’m not the only one thinking this way.
Ellie, Glad I’m not the only one thinking this way.
(Stupid phone double posts.sorry.)
I partly disagree. In the sense of female hormones and I would guess female neurological structures, then I guess that would be mind altering. This means that the character has to adapt to her new circumstances, like wearing a bra or bodily functions or perhaps even maybe urges.
On the other hand, when a physical transformation occurs in a character and this coincides with a mental transformation. Then in my opinion, this is a wholly new character being substituted in for the old one and their checksums no-longer match.
At this point its a question of what makes you, you? How much of a transformation in a character makes them someone else.
Finally, “AND to start enjoying being Blue Shirt’s girlfriend” bothers me. Shouldn’t that read, “AND to start enjoying Blue Shirt being her boyfriend… he’s rich”? This isn’t a comment directed to suggest that all women want a rich man, rather this just happens to appear to be one of his few better qualities, as far as I can tell.
He’s rich… apparently Bill Gates level rich based on the size of that pile of cash. Unfortunately, he’s so enamored with that huge pile of green he hasn’t even noticed that his former friend is now the girlfriend he wished for. Sooner or later, that’s going to cause complications. Call it hormones, call it altered brain structure, call it a plot device… it’s going to happen.
As soon as he notices that, the compulsions built into his wish will kick in and she’ll be pushed into the Adoring Girlfriend mode – whether she wants it or not – in some other comics it would be Screaming-on-the-Inside Adoring Girlfriend mode.
What’s to say that won’t happen here?
Jeanie can’t actually push her into “adoring girlfriend mode”- see back when she was learning to be a genie, and tried to whammy a girl into liking someone. She might remember the trick of putting extra endorphins in her brain, so the new girl “goes with the flow” more.
Absolutely disagreed, mental changes are boring as hell. The exciting part is trying to deal with a new body while having the same mind.
I struggle with nature over nurture. In such a dramatic physiological transformation, when does the structural change impact the the metal state and drives of the character. Suffice it to say I imagine red shirt won’t suddenly develop a need for large stuffed toys but also, she will experience emotional challenges with her period.
Thematically though, I agree with you completely.
I like the idea of her feeling that her body is rebelling against her as she fights new urges—for example, if Jeanie did the hormone thing to her that she did to Natalie, and she finds herself feeling sexual attraction to her new boyfriend and then suddenly realizes “What the HELL am I doing?!”
Who is to say, that her boyfriend (green shirt) will be the first to trigger those strong feelings? She might see a dishy guy and think, “Why, can’t my boyfriend be more like that?” and then ask, “What the HELL am I doing?!”
What? Hundreds?? That shoots down the fan theory that Jeanie messed his wish on purpose.
OR DID SHE???
Oh. There’s the phone. I guess it wasn’t in his pants when he changed.
That might be her rich new boyfriend’s phone.
But yeah, I didn’t think there was any reason that Jeanie would mess with the second guy’s wishes. He wasn’t rude to her.
His statement also implies that the bills are in assorted denominations, since he would not need to mention “another bundle of hundreds” if they were all hundreds.
I was thinking the same thing. He has an assortment of all the denominations since he did not specify.
That should make it easier to spend, or to pay a ransom. 😉
So Jeanie. 🙂 She is actually enjoying this. And she’s genuinely interested in finding out orange shirt guy’s wishes partly because she personally cannot imagine why he is delaying making them.
Orange shirt guy: “Look, I only wish I could find the perfect girl for me so we can live happily together.”
Jeanie: “Hold a sec”(calling back to former red shirt guy) “Hey new girl, I found the perfect solution to your problem.”
The money could still be crocked in a way that Blue Shirt hasn’t noticed. The signature on the bills could be somebody else than the person it’s supposed to be, or the year on the bill could be 2032. Even if it’s real, Blue Shirt can’t keep it in his room, and when he gets it to a bank, the bank and the IRS are going to want to know how he got it.
He doesn’t necessarily have to bring it to a bank. He could buy all kinds of high value commodities (like expensive cars) from less-than-perfectly-scrupulous vendors, and then sell them and deposit the check. If the bank comes asking, claim he came into a large inheritance.
True, but the money will be identified as phony eventually. The feds don’t take kindly to funny money, and they’ll trace it back to the eager, rich kid, who paid for all sorts of expensive stuff in cash. Big trouble,
Even if the cash is fine, the IRS is still going to want to talk to him.
But this discussion is a lot more serious than the tone of Jeanie’s adventures, so I’ll drop it from here.
I think what we’re missing here is how this money was procured. If it was just magicked up, then yes, the feds will probably get around to tracing it back to a dumb kid spending it all on dumb stuff. If the money was transported from another location, then it depends on where that money was transported from. If it was from a bank vault or something, that could lead to problems. However, if it’s like the collective lost money from across the United States, there’s possibly a way that this could go off without getting the feds involved.
File a tax return showing your work as an antique dealer (hell, mark down that you bought some scrap metal which turned out to be gold bars or bought costume jewellery that turned out to be genuine), write a few receipts showing some buys and sales, then stop. As long as the taxman gets to wet his beak, and there is no evidence of an ongoing criminal enterprise, then you are gold. What raises the authorities interests is if the money laundering is an ongoing thing. A big one off, as long as the tax is paid, isn’t a concern for them so much.
I’ve not thought about this, or looked into this, and you can’t use it against me.
Maybe Jeanie undetectably and untraceably stole it from Russian mobsters.
The joke is there’s *probably* no way to trace it back to some guy in the US.
Actually, the IRS only gets involved if they are tipped off; if he keeps quiet and spends the cash slowly and unobtrusively, he could live comfortably for the rest of his life.
Not to mention the fact that the IRS has to PROVE that the cash is earned income on which taxes were not paid. Mere suspicion isn’t good enough, as long as he keeps his mouth shut. For that matter he could even tell the exact truth, (“I wished for it, and it appeared”) and be in the clear; that’s not taxable, and the IRS can’t prove otherwise.
Oddly, tax law does not operate on the old “innocent until proven guilty” principle. The IRS CAN seize your valuables as the profits of an illegal enterprise, and if you can’t prove they are not, well, tough, the law says you have to keep those records. If you can’t prove you did not get the money through a criminal enterprise then you ARE guilty of not keeping the records the law requires you to keep. So, “guilty until proven innocent” it is.
You wish for a perfect girl, that you can live with? *poof*
What the? Why am I a..
You wished for a perfect girl. And now you can live with her.
I didn’t mean my self. I wished for somebody other!
Okay. *poof*
I don’t care about your mon… wait what? Why am I here.
Here is your girl.
Okay now just make me a man again. *poof*
I STILL LOOK THE SAME!
Well have you tried to…
Oh. Okay I am a guy, but… look, just fix this.
Sorry. 3 wishes over. *poof away*
Well… this will take time to get used to.
He could tell the IRS that he earned the money from his private business and pay the income tax on it.
If he isn’t careful, some cop will find out about it and seize it all. It’s called “Civil Asset Forfeiture” and the police use it to just take large sums of cash that they think might possibly be the result of criminal activity (And any stack of cash that large would be instantly eligible.)
Once the police do that, you basically can’t ever get it back, since you have to prove that the money was NOT the result of illegal activity, and it’s not possible to prove a negative.k
SO he’d better be very VERY careful what he does with that stack-o-loot.
Yea that is just one of the things that are so wrong about modern America. Hence why just wishing for money is such a dumb thing.
I believe this story takes place on the west coast so he should have wished to be the King of the Absolute kingdom of Cascardia, that would hold all territory west of the Rocky mountains, and be beloved by the people. He needs to hold enogh power to be sure that it wont be taken away again.
They are in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Anyway, a much simpler way to get a lot of money without anyone questioning it would be for him to have wished to win the Powerball or Mega Millions lottery. As of this post, the Powerball jackpot had reached over TWO BILLION dollars.
Then he would just have to pay 95% taxes, assuming he took the one time payment and not the annual payments.
Current top tax bracket on income in the USA is 35%, and Florida has no personal income tax, and does not otherwise tax lottery winnings.
I just looked at it the other day on zerohedge, the actual price is somewhat in the neighbourhood of 600 million not two billions.
Lottoes in Europe do not work like that, the top eurojackpot is 120 million euroes, but taxes are included in that, ye get all the money not annuities and best of all, ye get anonymity.
It would be much wiser to wish for that, and maybe to become a Hungarian citizen and to be fluent in Hungarian.
Because trust me Budapest is a lot nicer then Miami.
The advertised $2 billion lottery jackpot is if you take the annuity payout. Something like 30 payments once a year over 30 years. There is no provision for your heirs to receive remaining payments if you die – the government just keeps any remaining money (the government doesn’t have to follow the rules for gambling that it sets for casinos). So most lawyers and financial managers recommend taking the one-time lump-sum payment, which works out to about $600 million after taxes. If you set that up in a trust fund, over 30 years it should grow to the neighborhood of $1.5 – $2 billion.
The taxes can’t be included in the U.S. You can do it in Europe because each country is typically one tax jurisdiction. But the U.S. has nearly 20,000 tax jurisdictions, many of them overlapping (federal, state, county, city). How much you owe in taxes literally depends on exactly where you live. So it’s impossible to advertise a single dollar amount with taxes deducted. That amount would be different for people living in different places.
Cocoa Beach is over 300 km from Miami. It’s actually closer to Orlando.
Actually, unless they’ve changed the rules, your heirs CAN Inherit that annuity – you arrange for it to be payable to a corporation.
Actually, you have this backwards; the guy with the money doesn’t have to prove anything; on the contrary, the police have to prove that the money IS the proceeds of a crime.
There have been several recent court rulings to exactly this effect. “Innocent until proven guilty” isn’t just a theory.
The court decisions are mixed. In the US, court cases have been brought under the 4th, 5th and 8th Amendments saying civil asset forfeiture is unconstitutional. As far as I can find, only one judge has agreed to that argument and that only in a narrow jurisdiction.
The hinge of the question is that in CIVIL asset forfeiture, no CRIMINAL case has been brought. The police or IRS or whoever have charged the ASSET with being involved in a crime, but it is a civil suit, not a prosecution. Only persons have rights. Anyone wanting to claim the money, or whatever, has to prove they have a legal right to the money.
Yeah, bassackwards, ain’t it? The law has been like this for about 100 years.
Hm. Well, a quick Google search seems to indicate otherwise. Several judges agreed with the argument, and they are all on the US Supreme court. The prior finding that state and local authorities are not bound by the 8th Amendment, was overturned recently, in Feb 2020, in Timbs v. Indiana. Of course, the state could appeal that decision, but given the current make-up of the Court, that seems unlikely to succeed. However, time will tell.
I certainly do agree that the various authorities do like to act as though they can get away with anything. And often that’s enough.
The government gets around “innocent until proven guilty” by charging the money with the crime, not the person they confiscate it from. Since the money is an inanimate object, it can’t file a motion in court objecting to being charged. And the person it was taken from wasn’t charged with a crime so has no standing to file in court on behalf of the money. In order to get the money back, the person then has to prove the money wasn’t obtained illegally.
Yeah, I know, this is completely silly. But that’s the legal reasoning which some courts have accepted.
Well, hopefully fewer and fewer courts will try to go that way, now that SCOTUS has ruled. (See my reply to Joyce, above.)
This reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode where a couple wished for a million dollars from a genie, and the IRS came and took most of it. And they even and a retail business so they could justify the sudden existence of money. I see no reason why the IRS would not a large piece of this pie.
is indeed cute
What we need is a banner of the sassy cute jeanie
Agreed.
I third the motion.
You say “I recommend a vacation in the Bahamas”
Or “I recommend a cold shower”
In both cases. “A” refers to a thing, a singular noun or action.
An adjective is a word used to modify or describe a noun or a pronoun. It usually answers the question of which one, what kind, or how many. (Articles [a, an, the] are usually classified as adjectives.)
So “I recommend a sex” sounds wrong. It should either be “a sex act” or just “I recommend sex” without the “A”
It’s a drink, so “a Sex on the Beach” is correct, because you’re referring to an individual thing. Ice, 1.5oz ounces vodka, 1.5oz ounces peach schnapps, 2oz ounces orange juice, 2oz cranberry juice, a splash of grenadine, an orange slice and maraschino cherry for garnish. Fill a hurricane glass with ice, add the other liquid ingredients, thread the orange slice and cherry on a toothpick, and serve with a straw.
Since Jeanie is recommending a cocktail, I am reading the implied subtext of “you need to have a drink and loosen up, girl”.
Unless she was being literally and recommending the new girl has sex on the beach to loosen up.
It’s basically a fruit juice cocktail.
“A sex on the beach” is a cocktail made with 1 1/2 oz. vodka, 1 oz. peach schnapps, 2 oz. orange juice, 2 oz. cranberry juice, and an orange wedge for garnish.
“An adjective is a word used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun”. *Ignorance* is the word used when one does not recognize that the noun phrase being modified describes an object.
But other than that, everything in this comic makes perfect logical sense.
So Jeanie is recommending a cocktail.
But wouldn’t it be more fun if she was recommending to the “new girl” actual Sex on the Beach 🙂
(Poof) – New girl is in a skimpy bikini at the beach.
And now for a serious question (or it would be if I ever get back to that side of the country): How’s the hot chocolate at The Cocoa Bean?
Given that it’s “the Cocoa Bean” and not “The Coffee Bean” Chocolate drinks are probably their specialty, so probably very good. Or at least better than the Coffee.
Of course, it could just be a reference to being a coffee shop in Cocao Beach. But in my head canon, the chocolate here is so good people walk right past the 5 Starbucks stores in Cocoa Beach to have their Hot Chocolate.
What’s her problem, her boyfriend is rolling in money and all she can think about is a cappuccino, aim a little higher girl.
She had better get into that fast new car of hers and hurry over to the Coco bean before he makes his three wishes. His calls are being screened.
Then gets pulled over for speeding with no license.
and no registration, insurance, title, identification,……………….
Because she’s super hot she might just get a warning.
{I’m still disappointed that she doesn’t have Super Powers. OR DOES SHE???}
Dude I am ugly as shit and I still only gets warningings, the key is to be super humble and don’t be stingy on the tears.
“Sex on the beach” does sound like swearing…
Swearing or sweating?
After Red Blouse drinks a “Sex on the Beach”, her next drink can be a “Slow Comfortable Screw.” That drink involves:
Southern Comfort, bourbon whiskey, fresh squeezed orange juice, and sloe gin.
Drinks like that should get her the proper, receptive, feminine frame of mind.
Or there’s always that drink made with Vodka, orange juice and Milk of Magnesia.
It’s a Phillips Screwdriver. 😉
She should be careful annoy Jeanie too much and she might find her new boyfriend sends her into distracted fantasies like a certain Greek captain goes into around any cute boy.
For that matter I wonder how she’ll react when her parents start hinting about marriage and children.
That would assume that Jeanie went so far as to alter all of New Girl’s history so that everyone remembers him as her. She didn’t do that to Agent Anderson or the Greek Captain, so I doubt she’d do it for an annoying stoner.
While erasing/suppressing memories (i.e. making a person forget something) might be permissible, inserting fake memories might veer too close to the forbidden sort of mind control.
Creating fake paper or computer records should be fine though—if Jeanie was being merciful, Red Top Girl would now have a driver’s license with her new face and a feminine name on it.
Oh I’m assuming she’ll have to convince her parents who she is but redhead girl managed it way back at the start. People in this universe have a rather disturbing ease of convincing people who they are implying it happens more often than just Jeanie’s actions.
Then again, this world has not only genies, but also Bewitched-style witches operating in it, and the scale of the witches’ internal politicking in The Melvin Chronicles implies that there are thousands of witches in America alone.
face it your a girl now Jeanie not going to help change you back
Cute Veteran’s Day banner
G.I. Jeannie
It could also be for the Marine Corps Birthday. Barista, a round of hot chocolate for any Marines that happen to come in today! Green Shirt is buying. ^_^ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_birthday)
Private Benjamin? (The current banner, as of Nov 10, 2022)
OH, that’s new! I don’t know when CD set that banner up.
I’m curious to see if Jeanie will try to help our last guy out with his crush and how that would go.
Obviously Jeanie will do an exceptional job and last guy will enjoy a wonderful happy ending with his love interest. As usual in this comic.
Red Shirt “girl” is going to head to the Cocoa Bean. What could go wrong for her???
Keys locked in the car?
No gas?
No license?
Now if she were SUPER….. These wouldn’t be a problem.
And you remember Jean is a selfish jackass who never learns a thing.
Helping!