https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=464%3A_RBA 2026-04-13T20:31:09Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=360952&oldid=prev 2025-01-03T18:56:04Z

<p>‎<span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Explanation</span></span></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:56, 3 January 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l21" >Line 21:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 21:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The title ''RBA'' is an acronym for ''Reverse Bel-Air''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The title ''RBA'' is an acronym for ''Reverse Bel-Air''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The title text is also an RBA, but one that diverges from the song lyrics much more quickly. It's a play on the phrase &quot;started drinking.&quot; This phrase usually refers to someone becoming an alcoholic (in this case, it would be because of the break-up), but in this case refers to the actual fact that Cueball had just started drinking (a glass of water) when Megan started talking to him.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The title text is also an RBA, but one that diverges from the song lyrics much more quickly. It's a play on the phrase &quot;started drinking.&quot; This phrase usually refers to someone becoming an alcoholic (in this case, it would be because of the break-up), but in this case refers to the actual fact that Cueball had just started drinking (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">likely </ins>a glass of water) when Megan started talking to him.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A similar (though less serious) play on the Bel-Air meme was later used in [[1059: Bel-Air]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A similar (though less serious) play on the Bel-Air meme was later used in [[1059: Bel-Air]].</div></td></tr> </table>

162.158.42.157 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=324749&oldid=prev 2023-10-02T20:29:51Z

<p>acronym is used far more common and is a better choice.</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:29, 2 October 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l19" >Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I'll tell you how I became ''the prince of a town called Bel-air''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:I'll tell you how I became ''the prince of a town called Bel-air''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The title ''RBA'' is an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">initialism </del>for ''Reverse Bel-Air''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The title ''RBA'' is an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">acronym </ins>for ''Reverse Bel-Air''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The title text is also an RBA, but one that diverges from the song lyrics much more quickly. It's a play on the phrase &quot;started drinking.&quot; This phrase usually refers to someone becoming an alcoholic (in this case, it would be because of the break-up), but in this case refers to the actual fact that Cueball had just started drinking (a glass of water) when Megan started talking to him.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The title text is also an RBA, but one that diverges from the song lyrics much more quickly. It's a play on the phrase &quot;started drinking.&quot; This phrase usually refers to someone becoming an alcoholic (in this case, it would be because of the break-up), but in this case refers to the actual fact that Cueball had just started drinking (a glass of water) when Megan started talking to him.</div></td></tr> </table>

Danger Kitty https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=284079&oldid=prev 2022-05-26T20:02:24Z

<p>Reverted edits by <a href="/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/Donald_Trump" title="Special:Contributions/Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> (<a href="/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Donald_Trump&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:Donald Trump (page does not exist)">talk</a>) to last revision by <a href="/wiki/index.php/User:CRLF" title="User:CRLF">CRLF</a></p> <a href="//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&amp;diff=284079&amp;oldid=281223">Show changes</a>

Theusaf https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=281223&oldid=prev 2022-05-26T18:52:05Z

<p>Reverted edit by anti-crap user</p> <a href="//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&amp;diff=281223&amp;oldid=281087">Show changes</a>

Donald Trump https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=281087&oldid=prev 2022-05-26T18:05:26Z

<p>Reverted vandalism with <a href="/wiki/index.php/User:CRLF/OneClickUndo.js" title="User:CRLF/OneClickUndo.js">User:CRLF/OneClickUndo.js</a></p> <a href="//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&amp;diff=281087&amp;oldid=277204">Show changes</a>

CRLF https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=277204&oldid=prev 2022-05-26T16:49:22Z

<p>Crapped page</p> <a href="//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&amp;diff=277204&amp;oldid=273276">Show changes</a>

Donald Trump https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=273276&oldid=prev 2022-05-21T02:55:28Z

<p>Reverted edits by <a href="/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/Explain_xkcd_server_admin" title="Special:Contributions/Explain xkcd server admin">Explain xkcd server admin</a> (<a href="/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Explain_xkcd_server_admin&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:Explain xkcd server admin (page does not exist)">talk</a>) to last revision by <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=User:172.70.131.106&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:172.70.131.106 (page does not exist)">172.70.131.106</a></p> <a href="//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&amp;diff=273276&amp;oldid=271175">Show changes</a>

Davidy22 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=271175&oldid=prev 2022-05-20T21:41:07Z

<p></p> <a href="//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&amp;diff=271175&amp;oldid=267203">Show changes</a>

Explain xkcd server admin https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=267203&oldid=prev 2022-05-11T18:07:20Z

<p>Undo revision 266145 by <a href="/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/%F0%9F%91%96%F0%9F%94%A5" title="Special:Contributions/👖🔥">👖🔥</a> (<a href="/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:%F0%9F%91%96%F0%9F%94%A5&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:👖🔥 (page does not exist)">talk</a>)</p> <a href="//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&amp;diff=267203&amp;oldid=266145">Show changes</a>

172.70.131.106 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&diff=266145&oldid=prev 2022-05-11T17:32:01Z

<p></p> <a href="//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=464:_RBA&amp;diff=266145&amp;oldid=257145">Show changes</a>

👖🔥