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I have successfully invented a police box that travels through time. All I need is a way to change the travel speed from the default 60-second-per-minute and we'd have an operational TARDIS! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.237|141.101.99.237]] 05:57, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 
I have successfully invented a police box that travels through time. All I need is a way to change the travel speed from the default 60-second-per-minute and we'd have an operational TARDIS! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.237|141.101.99.237]] 05:57, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 
Is the title text a reference to Calvin and Hobbes? "There's treasure everywhere!" --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.78|173.245.48.78]] 19:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 
Is the title text a reference to Calvin and Hobbes? "There's treasure everywhere!" --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.78|173.245.48.78]] 19:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
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The sentence in the third paragraph which begins with the word "However" is reading into the original comic something which is not actually in the original comic. It is probably true that Randall wanted the reader to think that Beret Guy in panel one was implying that the kayak could "travel through time in a science fiction sense" but there is nothing in the comic to suggest that Cueball thinks that the kayak "can travel through time in a science fiction sense."

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I have successfully invented a police box that travels through time. All I need is a way to change the travel speed from the default 60-second-per-minute and we'd have an operational TARDIS! 141.101.99.237 05:57, 27 January 2014 (UTC) Is the title text a reference to Calvin and Hobbes? "There's treasure everywhere!" --173.245.48.78 19:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

The sentence in the third paragraph which begins with the word "However" is reading into the original comic something which is not actually in the original comic. It is probably true that Randall wanted the reader to think that Beret Guy in panel one was implying that the kayak could "travel through time in a science fiction sense" but there is nothing in the comic to suggest that Cueball thinks that the kayak "can travel through time in a science fiction sense."