Jeanie Bottle 719
Jan10
on January 10, 2023
at 12:00 am
and modified on January 7, 2023. at 1:45 am
Chapter: Story 15: I Dream of Three Wishes
Ohhh, I forgot about this. Didn’t Jeanie use a “Dummy Neil” during the story where Guano mistook Natalie for Jeanie?
Yeah, I even recalled they swap places to help escape a punishment good times.
Did she TELL him to eat boogers?
I *think* that’s intended to display how “dumb” dummy Neil is.
It works! 🙂
“‘Nose-FINGERS!’ cried an irate drunk, who, true to his family name, had it crammed up his nostril to the fourth joint.” —Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
Picking our noses is kind of human. The problem is just leaving your finger lodged up there.
Well, what else are you going to do with them?
According to Kristoff all men do it.
Okay, this is an alternative, I suppose.
I was thinking that Jeannie could have disguised herself as Neil. True, she can’t make herself look like her original male form, but that doesn’t mean that she couldn’t make herself look like some other guy.
But hey, this works, too.
If I remember correctly, she hasn’t a specific inability to look like her original form, it’s just that modifying her “core appearance” it’s apparently very difficult. https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-162
Indeed she has never taken on a male appearance but she can assume the form of girls both real or imagined …
I thought that femininity was an inherent part of what Jeanie was, and hence she could never make herself look male, and evil energy is attracted to anyone who tries to use male pronouns to refer to her.
Jeanie? Darling? Sweetie? Why time travel, when you could have just seen to it that the numbers you picked were the ones that happened to be drawn?
That would take too long. She would need to have bought this house weeks ago.
‘Course once you go back in time to get the numbers, your presence in the past might cause random chance to select a different set of numbers…
Unlikely that such a butterfly effect would manifest in only a day or two.
Going back in time for prom was absolutely essential for the timeline — the burger place closed because of forgery accusation caused by them being there, and Jean needed to have Jeanie as his date and first conquest. The problems came when Jeanie tried to avoid her destiny.
Similarly, (at this point in time) Jeanie needed to have gone back and get the winning lottery ticket, because she has the winnings (collected by moron-Neil) already, and has purchased the house already. It * must* have happened. And since she (presumably) didn’t get sick to her stomach and turn green, she did what she was “supposed” to do.
Dude don’t try to use logic on time travel. Time travel is inherently nonsensical. It can only be used in comedy shows that don’t care about coherence.
Because the problem is that it is logically impossible, like trying to draw a square circle.
I think this means Dummy Neil needs his own character page.
Not every potted plant needs a character page.
Potted? What, you think the stoners shared their doobies with Neil?
Come to think of it, he does look baked…
Well, he must be smart to file for all Neil paperwork to buy a house.
Nah, Jeanie did all of the talking, and all he needed to do was say “yes” and put his signature in the right places.
Not really. There is an entire industry called title companies that handle all of the paperwork. The title company is supposed to serve as a neutral arbiter between buyer and seller to ensure that the transaction is clean and all legal and financial requirements are met. All the buyer has to do is show up at closing, indicate that they agree to the terms of the deal, and sign or initial where necessary. Note that the title company’s only responsibility is to ensure that you agree to the deal as presented at the closing table. It’s the buyer’s responsibility to ensure that the terms of the deal as written match the terms they were promised, and it’s all too common for shady sellers and finance companies to promise one thing and deliver another.
This might just detach any association that Neil has with the stoners that just got busted. Obviously, he was living here when the cars and money got pilfered so there might not be any reason for the police to come after him for questioning. I’d still like to know what happened to them. They were both greedy and probably got what they deserved, but there needs to be some sort of closure.
In fact Dummy Neil could have been the one living with the stoners pretending to be the smarter twin who is the engineer
That might be difficult to pull off since Dummy Neil basically only does what he’s told and might not be able to carry on a conversation.
So? That pretty much describes all the stoners. He’d fit right in. 😉
The lights are on but no one’s home.
Neil, Dummy LOL
Hahah, booger eating Neil, just too funny. A bit creepy though.
remind me of when we had two major nelsons on i dream of jeanie
I *believe* this is an intentional nod to that, actually.
I hope Jeanie remembered to delete Neil’s name from the lease on the apartment and poof their belongings into the new house. The coffee shop guy has an alibi with the cute red head girl. Stonie the girl stoner is an undocumated immigrant so she gets a pass unless agent Anderson shows up. Green shirt guy takes the hit. Dummy Neil hooray we now have Zombies.
I am pretty sure this is going to be a case for the MBI, the Magical Bureau of Investigation, with all the djinni, and witches, vampires, warewolves, swampmonsters and aliens running around.
Dollars to donuts Jeanie has seen Neil eat his boogers while he was tying to work out some engineering problem.
Most of the engineers I know would prefer to snack on wooden pencils, or in a pinch, the eraser. This is, of course, after no one has made another pot of coffee and all the cookies, brownies, and donuts are gone.
This buying the house explains why Jean has not been around as mentioned in the chapter start lately Jean has left the bottle cause Jean was buying Neil a house clever plan and great friend.
The thing about “a ton of paperwork” is a little unrealistic. I remember when I bought my apartment, I had to sign a total of 1 piece of paper, and then have two good friends sign it as witnesses.
If I needed a mortgage I would have had to sign 2 pieces of paper. (one for the deed one for the mortage)
But we are not the Flintstones we do not live in Bedrock and do not sign on stone, so tons is really really an exaggeration in the extremes.
That’s unusual. When we bought our house, and every time I refinanced, there was — while not a literal 2000 lbs — a figurative “ton” of paperwork. Refinancing is simpler, but purchasing, there was probably 2″ of paperwork, and about 25 places that needed to be signed, with many more initials required.
I also stood in for someone on a sale (he and his ex had both moved, and the house was being sold after they’d been renting it out, so neither wanted to return just to sign papers). The same amount of “house selling” paperwork was there, with added stuff to recognize that I was lawfully acting as the agent for my friend.
(Edit… and it is a “mountain” of paperwork. Also a figure of speech, obviously… or making mountains of molehills.) 🙂 🙂
Do I remember him? No.
That’s O.K. though. There’s a lot of background here.