I see, though, by an inflation calculator, that $250/1985 = $494/2008...

...it's like the bit that I heard earlier today about George Frederick Handel being paid the equivalent of £800,000 to write one of his big cantata's...inflation is an amazing thing.

They also pointed out that Handel had to pay all of the musicians and singers out of his take...easy come, easy go.

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AA