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This comic of selling seagulls down by the seashore continues to crack me up. For a year I had planned to steal the idea and this past summer was my first attempt. I tell stories about a Rubber Duck and her love life with a seagull so it was easy to work it in.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107071332326571881653/posts/deH5bWtSa9X?hl=en

I hope you don't mind. The origins of the love story are back here:

http://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/homie-in-love-part-ii-to-xi/

As a long time resident of the ocean, my shallow take on the comic was all about goofing on tourists. What better way to wile away a Saturday in grade school but to tell them where the bridge to the Vineyard was (there isn't one) and selling seagulls fits right in. I haven't actually gotten anyone to walk up and bite on the goof but just the idea is hilarious. (I also have plenty of time.)

I know what an investor elevator pitch is but am unsure how it connects to the comic. I guess if you are going to fall for paying for a seagull you may fall for a quick sales pitch in the elevator.

Anyway, thank you XKCD for the amusing comics over the years. People show them to me and I always ask if they have read the mouseover. Most of the time they have missed the best part.

Paul

Paul T morrison (talk) 17:40, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


@paultmorrison To explain the elevator pitch, have you seen the other comics involving Beret Guy? He's pretty weird. Check out these four comics (especially the one with the rubber sheet) 199.27.128.120 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

This cartoon might be considered a precursor to XKCD 1032, in which Beret Guy turns up with a small suitcase full of money and attempts -- in his exceedingly random fashion -- to engage in what he believes to be standard business-type networking behavior. 108.162.219.40 23:24, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

If someone were to actually buy a gull, does that make them gullible? 199.27.128.174 23:04, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Of course Beret Guy would use an honesty system. What if you don't put money in the jar after catching a bird? Or you steal the jar? 108.162.250.223 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

-Seeing how well things just seem to go for Beret Guy, I wouldn't advise it. Who knows what the universe would do to anyone who crossed him. 108.162.237.85 02:52, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

How is this missing a "real explanation"? RamenChef (talk) 19:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Incomplete explanation?[edit]

Does this really belong in "incomplete explanations"? It seems fine to me. Sensorfire (talk) 13:51, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

No no no! Someone needs to add, "There are no gull markets. No one buys them." I'd do it, but I don't feel like it. (Please dear God do not add that. The incomplete tag isn't there for nothing. If I somehow get in trouble for this, so sue me.) 172.68.47.6 03:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)