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minus-squareRadioactive Butthole@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThat aired in 1965. Using $50 as a sort of reasonable base, that is worth $500.78 today.
minus-squareCrayonRosary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI would think “tens and twenties” means plural of both, so $60 at minimum. But who wants the minimum? I’d think she meant $90, at least.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWhoa. I hadn’t done the calculation to see what it should have been, but yikes. And flipped the other way, listening to “how about tens and twenties?” feels to the modern ear like “how about singles and twos?” I mean, it’s an odd request, but hardly extravagant in those denominations.
That aired in 1965. Using $50 as a sort of reasonable base, that is worth $500.78 today.
I would think “tens and twenties” means plural of both, so $60 at minimum. But who wants the minimum? I’d think she meant $90, at least.
Whoa. I hadn’t done the calculation to see what it should have been, but yikes.
And flipped the other way, listening to “how about tens and twenties?” feels to the modern ear like “how about singles and twos?”
I mean, it’s an odd request, but hardly extravagant in those denominations.