Editing Talk:183: Snacktime Rules

Hm, how can we know, really, if it's Randall or Cueball speaking? –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 20:19, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 
It's Randall. I was there.  [[User:Spotlouise|Spotlouise]] ([[User talk:Spotlouise|talk]]) 16:13, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

:I'm pretty sure that Cueball is basically just an abstraction of Randall.  Black Hat, too, at times.  Odd that no one seems to notice. [[User:Daddy|Daddy]] ([[User talk:Daddy|talk]]) 15:43, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
:: Everyone knows it; it'd be impossible for Randall to not put himself in the comic. However, the ''title text'' is '''always''' Randalll, so that implies that the stick figure is definitely Randall. [[Special:Contributions/75.185.176.214|75.185.176.214]] 00:07, 16 August 2013 (UTC) I should probably join... I'd be able to stop displaying my IP
::: The title text is not always Randall.{{unsigned|Flewk}}

:: I feel like most of the characters are at least sometimes abstractions of Randall. I mean almost always Cueball is. But I think the other characters can be aspects of him sometimes. Black Hat, Beret Guy, he'll sometimes even White Hat and Megan. Although they usually represent other things, if anything at all. But sometimes. {{unsigned ip|108.162.245.64}}

Based on the title text Randall had probably just turned 6, so there would be two years until he next could have a snack - and the mother probably believed that he would have forgotten such a rule by then (alas that was clearly not the case... :-) [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:27, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

: Or is it ( :-))? [[541: TED Talk]] {{unsigned|Aronurr}}

As I read it, it isn't that he gets no snacks, it is that he gets no snacks in his rom. {{unsigned ip|162.158.252.185}}

Just a thought, but maybe this rule is based on a measurement of Randall's age in terms of some unit other than years, which would be ''really'' nerdy.  —[[User:CsBlastoise|CsBlastoise]] ([[User talk:CsBlastoise|talk]]) 18:28, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Is it possible the obscure logic is related to school exams - perhaps he is 12 and starting Junior High, the previous year having sat an SSAT exam to get.  He turned 12 in the October, so would have been studying aged 11 and perhaps allowed to snack in his room as a result.  His mum observed that he'll next sit exams for senior high aged 14 and then for undergrad at 17... so can only snack in years he is prepping for exams.  (Unlikely that this is the ACTUAL reason for the pattern, but I'll bet it was something of similar spirit, she'd allowed it age 11 and was post-associating it to some other life event so he can do it at 14 and 17 as well).{{unsigned ip|141.101.99.53 }}

I asked Randall about this on the How To book tour. He said it's real. The first two times he wore his mom down on this topic, he was 2 and 5. The first time was an exception, the second time she made a rule. [[User:Tbodt|Tbodt]] ([[User talk:Tbodt|talk]]) 03:00, 13 September 2019 (UTC)


I read it as if this privilige is ''given'' on a multiple of three minus one (i.e. at age 2 at first), but it doesn't mean the privilege is taken away at the next year (i.e. age 3, 4, 6,..). [[Special:Contributions/172.71.102.95|172.71.102.95]] 19:18, 17 September 2022 (UTC)