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He spent his life working on [[time travel]]. He was widely derided by his colleagues, and came to loathe the feeling of being laughed at with a white-hot passion. After successfully building [[Boswell Boliver's time machine|a time machine]], he resolved to transport himself back in time permanently, carrying with him inventions of the modern world, so that he could forever after life as a subject of awed admiration from the denizens of the past. Instead, he ended up materialising in the middle of a [[jousting]] competition held at tbe behest of a [[King (Dr. Who's Time Tales)|King]], and thrown into a [[dungeon]] for three days. When he was finally granted an audience, his demonstrations all failed, due to the [[lighter]] being out of fuel, a guard breaking his [[camera]] before he could use it to take a picture of the King, and his [[radio]] being useless without any radio stations to pick up. He was to be [[Death sentence|executed]], but the [[Queen (Dr. Who's Time Tales)|Queen]], finding his desperate flailing and unfulfilled pretences of genius amusing, convinced the King to let him live as their new [[court]] [[jester]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 36 comic story)|Dr. Who's Time Tales]]'')