Editing Talk:1021: Business Plan

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

[[User:Paultmorrison|Paul T morrison]] ([[User talk:Paultmorrison|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 [http://pastebin.com/iVhppvJm these four comics] (especially the one with the rubber sheet) {{unsigned ip|199.27.128.120}}

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.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.40|108.162.219.40]] 23:24, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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 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.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.40|108.162.219.40]] 23:24, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
-If someone were to actually buy a gull, does that make them gullible? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.174|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? {{unsigned ip|108.162.250.223}}
--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. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.85|108.162.237.85]] 02:52, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
-How is this missing a "real explanation"? [[User:RamenChef|RamenChef]] ([[User talk:RamenChef|talk]]) 19:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
-== Incomplete explanation? ==
-Does this really belong in "incomplete explanations"? It seems fine to me. [[User:Sensorfire|Sensorfire]] ([[User talk: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.) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.47.6|172.68.47.6]] 03:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)