209: Kayak
| Kayak |
 Title text: Man, there's future *everywhere*. |
Explanation
Beret Guy invites Cueball to join him in a two seat kayak. He focuses on the fact that everything is moving through time, rather than its ability to travel over water. The title text echos the same theme.
Transcript
[Person with beret in a kayak is talking to person on pier.]
- Beret Guy: Come explore the future with me!
- Cueball: Huh? What's that you're in?
- Beret Guy: A two seat kayak!
- Cueball: I see, but why do you have it?
- Beret Guy: We'll find out! The future is a big place!
- Cueball: So the kayak travels through time?
- Beret Guy: Sure! Just like everything else! It also goes over water. Come on!
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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."
I have a time machine but it only travels at a rate of one second per second and it can't go back in time.
xkcd Volume 0 (book)
below the strip, the book has
SICHINGULUUNGUUNG HSICHINGULUUNGATAQANM-
SICHINGULUUNGSICHINGQSICHINGN NUATAQAN
See also similar lettering above Parody Week: A Softer World on the same page, 11002. 172.69.214.109 (talk) 23:10, 11 January 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
