Jeanie Bottle 713
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on December 27, 2022
at 12:00 am
and modified on December 26, 2022. at 1:20 am
Chapter: Story 15: I Dream of Three Wishes
Is that Anne from The Wotch doing the presentation on ancient bongs?
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Is that Anne from The Wotch doing the presentation on ancient bongs?
Jean knows how to throw some one under the bus and ruin their life without them even realizing it. So, remember be careful and specify what you wish for.
All the bad choices were made for these wishes. I’m sure the guy will get hit for human trafficking as well once, not to mention the girl will get hit with being an illegal alien for having no ID.
I’m here for it.
OK, it was the trackers in the money that brought all the cops. It sure looks like Anne from the wotch. And is that Jeanies bottle setting next to the bong?
It looks like Jeannie’s bottle, but so does the German genie’s, and there were more like it at Haji’s palace.
It’s shaped the same, but it’s pink and transparent. So, similar design, but little else to connect them, I assume.
Perhaps an intentional nod to said bottle being a realistic choice for the three morons to try to turn into a bong, given that it’s being presented in the “Ancient Bongs” display case?
Based on Jeanie’s comment at the end of 711 — “thisss… might be a problem” — I don’t think she was throwing anyone under the bus (maybe Red Dudette, with the gender-change). She appears to have neither known nor considered how the wish-granting was being done.
Yeah, that’s very Jeanie, though. Not putting an iota of consideration into her actions.
Not DELIBERATELY, but …
where’s a giant mallet when you need one? I need to whack Jeanie on the head with it.
Ancient Bongs and Ancient Genie Lamps sometimes get mistaken, apparently
So Jean single handed destroyed someone’s life because they had the bad luck to find her bottle and she was agitated and inpatient. Her ordeal with the blue genie hasn’t changed her at all. She’s the same selfish, self-centered, self-important, self-serving 1-D brat she’s always been.
Even being asked,
“Don’t you think of anyone but yourself?!”
And seeing how monstrous she could become.. didn’t help her grow at all.
I think this is more of Jean being more carelessly irresponsible about granting the wishes rather than maliciously screwing anyone over. If only for herself, I’m sure she doesn’t want to deal with the police swarming all over Neil’s place, maybe to confiscate her bottle along with the other “misplaced” commodities. She had been oblivious of the full workings of her spells’ usage before e.g. relocating the 2 Beach Muscle Bums to another beach thru time or the removal of the Dukes’ “General Lee” car from existence while thinking it was the historical civil war general. Genie magic does seem to have a sub-conscience effect at times in this series.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by laziness.
She probably granted those wishes in a “least effort” manner. Meaning she just teleported stuff from nearby to Neil’s house.
Note to self: Be sure to append “that I own with no legal problems” to any genie wishes.
Well, this explains where the bong and the money came from and why it was tracked so fast.
The FBI and some other 3 letter government organization knows that there are genies.
Or at least know that sometimes inexplicable occurrences occur.
Well, DHS certainly knows that something magical is out there, given that Agent Anderson got spontaneously gender-flipped in a DHS holding cell that was surely being video-recorded, and there was two eye-witnesses.
So yeah, I think it’s fair to assume that the government knows magic is real, but is likely keeping that Top Secret.
As I said in the fanfic, Agent Anderson, The doctor at Brooks called it Unexplained Genetic Expression because they have no idea what caused it.
Well, that certainly explains everything.
Given that:
1: Jeanie granted Orange Guy’s wish in a manner such that the three roommates forget having met her, and
2: Jeanie was seen having gone back in time,
I infer that Jeanie is going to put the money, bong, and cars back, and possibly restore Red Girl back into Red Guy. Since the trio will not remember, this means that effectively the whole thing never happened for them, except for the incident with Belle’s boyfriend and with Jeanie having told the redhaired girl that Orange Guy is interested in her. Thus, everything snaps back to status quo ante, except that Orange Guy and Redhaired Girl have a date.
We see Jeanie’s bottle disappear right after seeing her future self in that previous page. That doesn’t seem like evidence of “Jeanie puts everything back”. More like evidence of “Jeanie hightails it out of there to avoid the fuzz”.
Last time she time traveled it caused a whole lot of issues, so considering her bottle got poofed away on page 700, I find it most likely she just goes back a few hours to cover her ass from the FBI raid and leaves the two in the house on their own.
And if they’re extra lucky, they’ll be smoking from their fancy bong when the raid happens and try to explain that a genie did it.
Agreed. I don’t see another “time-travel-snafu” story arc at this point. I think she goes back, gets her bottle (which we’ve already seen occur, so it’s proper timeline), and comes back to the present.
She *might* do things after the fact to try to minimize the problems. If she *poofed* the cars back to the dealership (maybe replacing them with “clean title” vehicles to not undo the “no backsies” wishes), and does the same with the money, then the cops have suddenly lost most of their evidence. She could do the same with the bong, but honestly, I don’t see that currently being known to be stolen property.
Thing is, if Neil’s roommates get arrested for drugs/theft, suspicion falls on Neil by association. I think that Jeanie will do something to keep Neil from being suspected, even if she has to save the jerkass riommates in order to do it.
“Holy Potatoes!”
Anne, you got some explainin’ to do.
When they track the money down, they’re going to be *so* disappointed…
Magic and karma go hand in hand – even if it wasn’t intended XD
To quote Rumplestiltskin: All magic comes with a price.
looks like Anne from The Wotch might be paying Jeanie a visit
Well she is not getting much work over at the Wotch comic.
Jeanie, you are the worst genie ever… of all time.
Well- she hasn’t started world war 3 yet…
one of the bongs look just like a genie bottle
No wonder the three stoners decided that Jeanie’s actual bottle looked “bong-able”.
Looks like those things wished for have to come from somewhere. In the case of the Greek fishermen, their catch was turned into gold. Take note to have buckets full of sand and gravel to be turned into gold dust, nuggets and uncut gems. Use other wishes for exceptional health or some other thing that money can’t buy.
THANK YOU! This is the best christmas present!
So the trackers were on the Money? That was unexpected.
Yeah… also not that plausible. You could theoretically install RFID chips into (select) bills and not have them noticed among the rest of the $6.2 million. However, they would not be “trackable”… rather, they would be *detectable* when you got up close. Putting in an actual tracker would require hollowing out some of the wrapped packets of money, *or* would require hiding the tracker in, say, the pallet that the money was on (which makes it much less useful in general, but maybe okay in this situation).
I thought that too, until I looked it up.
https://gpstrackit.com/blog/bank-slips-tracker-into-stolen-cash/
Thin enough not to be noticed when slipped in between bills. Enabled police to track robber’s vehicle and arrest him.
I stand — or sit, I guess — corrected. Thanks!
In one of the 007 movies (A Roger Moore one, so that narrows it down)
electronic detonators were hidden in the money wrappers.
Something similar here or maybe one of the bundles is only real on the top and the bottom.
That’s the thing about genie magic. This stuff doesn’t just poof out of nowhere. It has to come from somewhere. This is why genie wishes shouldn’t be used for stuff like money and material things.
What about fantasy island? That worked well.
What if you wished for something which doesn’t exist and no one knows how to make?
A working fusion reactor or a battery with 100 times the energy-density of current ones. Either would get you, legally, more money than any number of bank robberies. Neil, as an engineer, might plausibly have invented either.
Or how about a faster-than-light drive?
Personally, I don’t believe FTL is possible unless all modern physics is wrong. On the other hand, Jeanie did ‘poof’ to Mars in an instant. And FTL is equivalent to time-travel.
Good luck patenting something which works because of ‘magic’.
Depends on what magic rules you’re going with. Seems like CD Rudd’s gone with “Jeanie doesn’t make things appear out of thin air”. But it could also be that she just chose not to do that, and instead teleporting existing objects to the property.
it seems Jeans powers take the short cut route and not create anything but will try to find something all ready made.
I think this tends to reflect Jeannie’s essentially lazy nature and lack of understanding of how her magic works. A more experienced genie, like Kazom, for instance, would probably have created the stuff, rather than simply teleporting existing items.
That’s my take as well.
Yeah that is more like it good thinking there.
and that is why gentlemen that when ye find a djinn and want wealth, wish for gold, because gold is untracable, especially if it is in common demominated bullion, like krugerrand random years
Or you could just wish for the only winning lottery ticket
Are trackers on dollar bills an actual thing or just made up for a plot device?
See Prof Sai’s comment above, for a link about some money trackers. The ones mentioned were basically the standard ones you find all the time, on packages, and are the size of stamps/christmas seals. I am sure there are smaller ones out there somewhere.
But all your 5 dollar bills + do have magnetic strips inside the bills already. So if by tracker you mean something like “wheres george.com”, where you find a bill, and track where it came from-(the bills are “marked”), then that is no problem.