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This comic indulges in some wordplay on the title of the 1988 animated movie ''{{w|The Land Before Time (franchise)|The Land Before Time}}'', which takes place millions of years ago in the time of dinosaurs. | This comic indulges in some wordplay on the title of the 1988 animated movie ''{{w|The Land Before Time (franchise)|The Land Before Time}}'', which takes place millions of years ago in the time of dinosaurs. | ||
β | The comic shows a timeline of the history of the universe from the {{w|Big Bang}} to the present day, with ''The Land Before Time'' placed at the point in the timeline where the movie is set, as well as other seemingly arbitrary events such as the formation of rocky planets and the evolution of ground-nesting bees. The joke is that Randall has contrived several periods of universal history that sound like funny permutations of "The Land Before Time" due to certain words being {{w|homophone}}s, such as "time" and "thyme", or homonyms, such as the noun "land" (ground) and the verb "land" (to alight) | + | The comic shows a timeline of the history of the universe from the {{w|Big Bang}} to the present day, with ''The Land Before Time'' placed at the point in the timeline where the movie is set, as well as other seemingly arbitrary events such as the formation of rocky planets and the evolution of ground-nesting bees. The joke is that Randall has contrived several periods of universal history that sound like funny permutations of "The Land Before Time" due to certain words being {{w|homophone}}s, such as "time" and "thyme", or homonyms, such as the noun "land" (ground) and the verb "land" (to alight). |
The title text is for the phrase "the time for Beeland" and lists 2 places (that Randall found on Google) with the name "Beeland": [http://beeland.ca/ a market in Spillimacheen, British Columbia] or [http://www.apartmajimozirje.si/en/beeland/ a chalet in Slovenia]. | The title text is for the phrase "the time for Beeland" and lists 2 places (that Randall found on Google) with the name "Beeland": [http://beeland.ca/ a market in Spillimacheen, British Columbia] or [http://www.apartmajimozirje.si/en/beeland/ a chalet in Slovenia]. |