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<p></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 09:56, 12 January 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6" >Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</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>I just realized: maybe Cueball's business idea is to get money by doing this and the comic shows how it works! [[User:PDesbeginner|PDesbeginner]] ([[User talk:PDesbeginner|talk]]) 16:15, 22 June 2024 (UTC)</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 just realized: maybe Cueball's business idea is to get money by doing this and the comic shows how it works! [[User:PDesbeginner|PDesbeginner]] ([[User talk:PDesbeginner|talk]]) 16:15, 22 June 2024 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</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><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</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><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We should make a category for comics with offset panels, like the last one here. There are a lot of them around this time period. [[Special:Contributions/76.176.69.232|76.176.69.232]] 09:56, 12 January 2026 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

76.176.69.232 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea&diff=344884&oldid=prev 2024-06-22T16:15:50Z

<p></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 16:15, 22 June 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4" >Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</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>I had this idea for a website just like that! Has anybody made it yet so I can mooch off them? Profits will be big. [[User:QATEKLYXM|Klyxm]] ([[User talk:QATEKLYXM|talk]]) 03:42, 5 March 2018 (UTC)</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 had this idea for a website just like that! Has anybody made it yet so I can mooch off them? Profits will be big. [[User:QATEKLYXM|Klyxm]] ([[User talk:QATEKLYXM|talk]]) 03:42, 5 March 2018 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</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><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</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><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I just realized: maybe Cueball's business idea is to get money by doing this and the comic shows how it works! [[User:PDesbeginner|PDesbeginner]] ([[User talk:PDesbeginner|talk]]) 16:15, 22 June 2024 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

PDesbeginner https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea&diff=153669&oldid=prev 2018-03-05T03:42:35Z

<p>comment</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 03:42, 5 March 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3" >Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</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>As I read it, the idea is to have a website where people who claim to have thought of something first would be able to submit 'claims' (for whatever they are worth, if anything).&#160; Cueball would get rich monetizing this sure-to-be-a-hit website. [[User:Danshoham|Mountain Hikes]] ([[User talk:Danshoham|talk]]) 09:09, 2 January 2016 (UTC)</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>As I read it, the idea is to have a website where people who claim to have thought of something first would be able to submit 'claims' (for whatever they are worth, if anything).&#160; Cueball would get rich monetizing this sure-to-be-a-hit website. [[User:Danshoham|Mountain Hikes]] ([[User talk:Danshoham|talk]]) 09:09, 2 January 2016 (UTC)</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>I had this idea for a website just like that! Has anybody made it yet so I can mooch off them? Profits will be big.[[User:QATEKLYXM|Klyxm]] ([[User talk:QATEKLYXM|talk]]) 03:42, 5 March 2018 (UTC)</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>I had this idea for a website just like that! Has anybody made it yet so I can mooch off them? Profits will be big. [[User:QATEKLYXM|Klyxm]] ([[User talk:QATEKLYXM|talk]]) 03:42, 5 March 2018 (UTC)</div></td></tr> </table>

QATEKLYXM https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea&diff=153668&oldid=prev 2018-03-05T03:42:12Z

<p>comment</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 03:42, 5 March 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2" >Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</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>As I read it, the idea is to have a website where people who claim to have thought of something first would be able to submit 'claims' (for whatever they are worth, if anything).&#160; Cueball would get rich monetizing this sure-to-be-a-hit website. [[User:Danshoham|Mountain Hikes]] ([[User talk:Danshoham|talk]]) 09:09, 2 January 2016 (UTC)</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>As I read it, the idea is to have a website where people who claim to have thought of something first would be able to submit 'claims' (for whatever they are worth, if anything).&#160; Cueball would get rich monetizing this sure-to-be-a-hit website. [[User:Danshoham|Mountain Hikes]] ([[User talk:Danshoham|talk]]) 09:09, 2 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</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><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</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><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I had this idea for a website just like that! Has anybody made it yet so I can mooch off them? Profits will be big.[[User:QATEKLYXM|Klyxm]] ([[User talk:QATEKLYXM|talk]]) 03:42, 5 March 2018 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

QATEKLYXM https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea&diff=125404&oldid=prev 2016-08-17T13:51:48Z

<p>SlashMe moved page <a href="/wiki/index.php/Talk:827:_Business_Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Talk:827: Business Idea">Talk:827: Business Idea</a> to <a href="/wiki/index.php/Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea" title="Talk:827: My Business Idea">Talk:827: My Business Idea</a>: Randall messed up, see <a href="/wiki/index.php/1721" class="mw-redirect" title="1721">1721</a></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:51, 17 August 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

SlashMe https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea&diff=108490&oldid=prev 2016-01-02T09:09:05Z

<p></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 09:09, 2 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</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 delivery address is to Ash Tree Lane. As shown in [[472]], Randall knows how to mess with people who've read House of Leaves. Subtle references are probably worse (better?) than the blatant, full-fat parody of 472. [[Special:Contributions/80.42.206.232|80.42.206.232]] 23:46, 23 July 2013 (UTC)</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 delivery address is to Ash Tree Lane. As shown in [[472]], Randall knows how to mess with people who've read House of Leaves. Subtle references are probably worse (better?) than the blatant, full-fat parody of 472. [[Special:Contributions/80.42.206.232|80.42.206.232]] 23:46, 23 July 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</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><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</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><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As I read it, the idea is to have a website where people who claim to have thought of something first would be able to submit 'claims' (for whatever they are worth, if anything).&#160; Cueball would get rich monetizing this sure-to-be-a-hit website. [[User:Danshoham|Mountain Hikes]] ([[User talk:Danshoham|talk]]) 09:09, 2 January 2016 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Danshoham https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea&diff=106372&oldid=prev 2015-12-04T01:41:25Z

<p>Davidy22 moved page <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_Business_Idea_on_wheels&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Talk:827: Business Idea on wheels (page does not exist)">Talk:827: Business Idea on wheels</a> to <a href="/wiki/index.php/Talk:827:_Business_Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Talk:827: Business Idea">Talk:827: Business Idea</a> over a redirect without leaving a redirect</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:41, 4 December 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

Davidy22 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea&diff=106343&oldid=prev 2015-12-03T21:29:32Z

<p>Xkcd is communism moved page <a href="/wiki/index.php/Talk:827:_Business_Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Talk:827: Business Idea">Talk:827: Business Idea</a> to <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_Business_Idea_on_wheels&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Talk:827: Business Idea on wheels (page does not exist)">Talk:827: Business Idea on wheels</a></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:29, 3 December 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

Xkcd is communism https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:827:_My_Business_Idea&diff=44761&oldid=prev 2013-07-23T23:46:59Z

<p>Created page with &quot;The delivery address is to Ash Tree Lane. As shown in <a href="/wiki/index.php/472" class="mw-redirect" title="472">472</a>, Randall knows how to mess with people who&#039;ve read House of Leaves. Subtle references are probably worse (better?...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The delivery address is to Ash Tree Lane. As shown in [[472]], Randall knows how to mess with people who've read House of Leaves. Subtle references are probably worse (better?) than the blatant, full-fat parody of 472. [[Special:Contributions/80.42.206.232|80.42.206.232]] 23:46, 23 July 2013 (UTC)</div>

80.42.206.232