What is the meaning of “guy who invented pants”?
In the X-Mansion, Deadpool says to Colossus:
You'd think the studio would throw us a bone. One that doesn't end up in my mouth. The first movie made more money than the guy who invented pants. They can't just dust off one of the famous X-Men?
What is the meaning of "guy who invented pants"?
marvel x-men-cinematic-universe deadpool deadpool-2
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
asked yesterday
Walsun JohnWalsun John
72
New contributor
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
add a comment |
In the X-Mansion, Deadpool says to Colossus:
You'd think the studio would throw us a bone. One that doesn't end up in my mouth. The first movie made more money than the guy who invented pants. They can't just dust off one of the famous X-Men?
What is the meaning of "guy who invented pants"?
marvel x-men-cinematic-universe deadpool deadpool-2
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
asked yesterday
Walsun JohnWalsun John
72
New contributor
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
Jeans? Could he mean Levi Strauss.
– Oni
yesterday
9
He means "The guy who invented a thing that is so ubiquitous that everyone has it", like "the guy who holds the patent for fire"
– Valorum
yesterday
I don't get all the downvotes. It's a short and simple question, but it's well stated and I can see how one might not understand the line
– Paul
yesterday
add a comment |
In the X-Mansion, Deadpool says to Colossus:
You'd think the studio would throw us a bone. One that doesn't end up in my mouth. The first movie made more money than the guy who invented pants. They can't just dust off one of the famous X-Men?
What is the meaning of "guy who invented pants"?
marvel x-men-cinematic-universe deadpool deadpool-2
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
asked yesterday
Walsun JohnWalsun John
72
New contributor
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
In the X-Mansion, Deadpool says to Colossus:
You'd think the studio would throw us a bone. One that doesn't end up in my mouth. The first movie made more money than the guy who invented pants. They can't just dust off one of the famous X-Men?
What is the meaning of "guy who invented pants"?
marvel x-men-cinematic-universe deadpool deadpool-2
marvel x-men-cinematic-universe deadpool deadpool-2
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
asked yesterday
Walsun JohnWalsun John
72
New contributor
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
asked yesterday
Walsun JohnWalsun John
72
New contributor
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
47.6k17253302
asked yesterday
Walsun JohnWalsun John
72
New contributor
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
asked yesterday
Walsun JohnWalsun John
72
asked yesterday
Walsun JohnWalsun John
72
72
New contributor
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
New contributor
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
Walsun John is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
Jeans? Could he mean Levi Strauss.
– Oni
yesterday
9
He means "The guy who invented a thing that is so ubiquitous that everyone has it", like "the guy who holds the patent for fire"
– Valorum
yesterday
I don't get all the downvotes. It's a short and simple question, but it's well stated and I can see how one might not understand the line
– Paul
yesterday
add a comment |
Jeans? Could he mean Levi Strauss.
– Oni
yesterday
9
He means "The guy who invented a thing that is so ubiquitous that everyone has it", like "the guy who holds the patent for fire"
– Valorum
yesterday
I don't get all the downvotes. It's a short and simple question, but it's well stated and I can see how one might not understand the line
– Paul
yesterday
Jeans? Could he mean Levi Strauss.
– Oni
yesterday
Jeans? Could he mean Levi Strauss.
– Oni
yesterday
9
9
He means "The guy who invented a thing that is so ubiquitous that everyone has it", like "the guy who holds the patent for fire"
– Valorum
yesterday
He means "The guy who invented a thing that is so ubiquitous that everyone has it", like "the guy who holds the patent for fire"
– Valorum
yesterday
I don't get all the downvotes. It's a short and simple question, but it's well stated and I can see how one might not understand the line
– Paul
yesterday
I don't get all the downvotes. It's a short and simple question, but it's well stated and I can see how one might not understand the line
– Paul
yesterday
add a comment |
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
Trousers (pants) are very popular: most people own a pair.
The person who first comes up with an idea (these days) usually gets a patent on the idea, to allow them time to recoup their investment in developing the idea into a product.
If you have a patent on something that means no-one else can make it without paying you for the rights to do so.
If the person who invented trousers had a patent on them, given their popularity, they would have an exclusive and very lucrative business.
So "the guy who invented pants" would have a lot of money.
Deadpool is saying the original film made a lot of money.
It's hyperbole, if for no other reason than trousers have been around longer than recorded history, so the person who "invented" trousers wouldn't have made any money.
answered yesterday
Matt EllenMatt Ellen
32916
Had to upvote for the first sentence alone.
– Darren
yesterday
add a comment |
It's just a throwaway joke to describe the fact that the previous movie made a lot of money.
If you assume that inventing something nets you royalties in all cases (it doesn't), then the longer something's been around, the more money it will have made it's inventor.
Pants have been around a REALLY long time to the tune of fifteen or more centuries so in concept if you invented pants you've earning a ton of royalties.
All that said, the inventor of pants is not known, and that's not really how royalties work, but it was a fun bit of hyperbole and Deadpool is using an absurd metaphor (as he frequently does) to get some laughs out of us.
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
answered yesterday
PaulPaul
3,50711829
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "186"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Walsun John is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f207570%2fwhat-is-the-meaning-of-guy-who-invented-pants%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
Trousers (pants) are very popular: most people own a pair.
The person who first comes up with an idea (these days) usually gets a patent on the idea, to allow them time to recoup their investment in developing the idea into a product.
If you have a patent on something that means no-one else can make it without paying you for the rights to do so.
If the person who invented trousers had a patent on them, given their popularity, they would have an exclusive and very lucrative business.
So "the guy who invented pants" would have a lot of money.
Deadpool is saying the original film made a lot of money.
It's hyperbole, if for no other reason than trousers have been around longer than recorded history, so the person who "invented" trousers wouldn't have made any money.
answered yesterday
Matt EllenMatt Ellen
32916
Had to upvote for the first sentence alone.
– Darren
yesterday
add a comment |
Trousers (pants) are very popular: most people own a pair.
The person who first comes up with an idea (these days) usually gets a patent on the idea, to allow them time to recoup their investment in developing the idea into a product.
If you have a patent on something that means no-one else can make it without paying you for the rights to do so.
If the person who invented trousers had a patent on them, given their popularity, they would have an exclusive and very lucrative business.
So "the guy who invented pants" would have a lot of money.
Deadpool is saying the original film made a lot of money.
It's hyperbole, if for no other reason than trousers have been around longer than recorded history, so the person who "invented" trousers wouldn't have made any money.
answered yesterday
Matt EllenMatt Ellen
32916
Had to upvote for the first sentence alone.
– Darren
yesterday
add a comment |
Trousers (pants) are very popular: most people own a pair.
The person who first comes up with an idea (these days) usually gets a patent on the idea, to allow them time to recoup their investment in developing the idea into a product.
If you have a patent on something that means no-one else can make it without paying you for the rights to do so.
If the person who invented trousers had a patent on them, given their popularity, they would have an exclusive and very lucrative business.
So "the guy who invented pants" would have a lot of money.
Deadpool is saying the original film made a lot of money.
It's hyperbole, if for no other reason than trousers have been around longer than recorded history, so the person who "invented" trousers wouldn't have made any money.
answered yesterday
Matt EllenMatt Ellen
32916
Trousers (pants) are very popular: most people own a pair.
The person who first comes up with an idea (these days) usually gets a patent on the idea, to allow them time to recoup their investment in developing the idea into a product.
If you have a patent on something that means no-one else can make it without paying you for the rights to do so.
If the person who invented trousers had a patent on them, given their popularity, they would have an exclusive and very lucrative business.
So "the guy who invented pants" would have a lot of money.
Deadpool is saying the original film made a lot of money.
It's hyperbole, if for no other reason than trousers have been around longer than recorded history, so the person who "invented" trousers wouldn't have made any money.
answered yesterday
Matt EllenMatt Ellen
32916
answered yesterday
Matt EllenMatt Ellen
32916
answered yesterday
Matt EllenMatt Ellen
32916
answered yesterday
Matt EllenMatt Ellen
32916
32916
Had to upvote for the first sentence alone.
– Darren
yesterday
add a comment |
Had to upvote for the first sentence alone.
– Darren
yesterday
Had to upvote for the first sentence alone.
– Darren
yesterday
Had to upvote for the first sentence alone.
– Darren
yesterday
add a comment |
It's just a throwaway joke to describe the fact that the previous movie made a lot of money.
If you assume that inventing something nets you royalties in all cases (it doesn't), then the longer something's been around, the more money it will have made it's inventor.
Pants have been around a REALLY long time to the tune of fifteen or more centuries so in concept if you invented pants you've earning a ton of royalties.
All that said, the inventor of pants is not known, and that's not really how royalties work, but it was a fun bit of hyperbole and Deadpool is using an absurd metaphor (as he frequently does) to get some laughs out of us.
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
answered yesterday
PaulPaul
3,50711829
add a comment |
It's just a throwaway joke to describe the fact that the previous movie made a lot of money.
If you assume that inventing something nets you royalties in all cases (it doesn't), then the longer something's been around, the more money it will have made it's inventor.
Pants have been around a REALLY long time to the tune of fifteen or more centuries so in concept if you invented pants you've earning a ton of royalties.
All that said, the inventor of pants is not known, and that's not really how royalties work, but it was a fun bit of hyperbole and Deadpool is using an absurd metaphor (as he frequently does) to get some laughs out of us.
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
answered yesterday
PaulPaul
3,50711829
add a comment |
It's just a throwaway joke to describe the fact that the previous movie made a lot of money.
If you assume that inventing something nets you royalties in all cases (it doesn't), then the longer something's been around, the more money it will have made it's inventor.
Pants have been around a REALLY long time to the tune of fifteen or more centuries so in concept if you invented pants you've earning a ton of royalties.
All that said, the inventor of pants is not known, and that's not really how royalties work, but it was a fun bit of hyperbole and Deadpool is using an absurd metaphor (as he frequently does) to get some laughs out of us.
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
answered yesterday
PaulPaul
3,50711829
It's just a throwaway joke to describe the fact that the previous movie made a lot of money.
If you assume that inventing something nets you royalties in all cases (it doesn't), then the longer something's been around, the more money it will have made it's inventor.
Pants have been around a REALLY long time to the tune of fifteen or more centuries so in concept if you invented pants you've earning a ton of royalties.
All that said, the inventor of pants is not known, and that's not really how royalties work, but it was a fun bit of hyperbole and Deadpool is using an absurd metaphor (as he frequently does) to get some laughs out of us.
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
answered yesterday
PaulPaul
3,50711829
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
edited yesterday
TheLethalCarrot
47.6k17253302
47.6k17253302
answered yesterday
PaulPaul
3,50711829
answered yesterday
PaulPaul
3,50711829
answered yesterday
PaulPaul
3,50711829
3,50711829
add a comment |
add a comment |
Walsun John is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Walsun John is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Walsun John is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Walsun John is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f207570%2fwhat-is-the-meaning-of-guy-who-invented-pants%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Jeans? Could he mean Levi Strauss.
– Oni
yesterday
9
He means "The guy who invented a thing that is so ubiquitous that everyone has it", like "the guy who holds the patent for fire"
– Valorum
yesterday
I don't get all the downvotes. It's a short and simple question, but it's well stated and I can see how one might not understand the line
– Paul
yesterday