3251: Time Machine Conversation

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Time Machine Conversation
It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.
Title text: It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.

Explanation[edit]

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Transcript[edit]

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[Panel 1: Cueball is on the left with a ghostly halo around him. Hairbun is on the right, holding a hoe vertically.]

Cueball: Oh Hi! Guess my time machine works. How's life in the Iron Age?
Hairbun: Not bad. Developing new kinds of plows.
Cueball: Cool.
Hairbun: And my brother was just lost at sea.

[Panel 2: Hairbun is out of the panel.]

Cueball: I'm sorry.
Hairbun [from outside the right side]: It's OK. I think sea navigation is probably impossible.

[Panel 3: Cueball and Hairbun are both shown.]

Cueball: Oh yeah, you don't have the compass, right?
Hairbun: The what?
Cueball: The weird rock that always points north?
Hairbun: What are you talking about?

[Panel 4: Cueball and Hairbun are both shown. Cueball holds his hand to his chin.]

Cueball: It does sound ridiculous when I say it out loud. Anyway, spoilers for the magnetic compass. Sorry.
Hairbun: What's a spoiler?
Cueball: ...spoilers for the concept of a spoiler, too.

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Discussion

Spoilers for boats. 64.201.132.210 21:25, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

The barman says "Sorry, we don't serve time-travellers". A time-traveller walks into a bar. 81.179.199.253 21:31, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Before explanation/transcript --OceanLord (talk) 21:38, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Cool I’ve never been early enough to see an explanation-less comic also help me I’ve never commented before did I mess it up :(
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