R I P Peter Tork

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  1. CBG

    CBG Well-Known Member

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    anyone post this yet or am I asleep at the wheel again as I have not seen it ? Merge or delete if necessary
     
  2. statjeff22

    statjeff22 2008 Green Guy "Most Knowledgeable" Award Winner

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    Discussed in the death pool thread. He and Nesmith were the two "real" musicians in the group, to the point where Tork was urged to try out for the show by his friend Stephen Stills (obviously very very much a "real" musician) after the latter was turned down for having bad teeth (they had both been part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene). Stills ended up doing alright, forming Buffalo Springfield the next year. Tork actually claimed that Jones was a good drummer, and the performing lineup should have actually been him on guitar, Nesmith on bass, Jones on drums, and Dolenz the front man. Nesmith and Dolenz both always said that while the other three pretty much played themselves on the show, Tork was nothing at all like the lovable dummy he played (Tork had developed that persona back in the Village as a folk singer that he used to interact with the audience).

    RIP.
     
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  3. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    Nesmith’s Mom invented Liquid Paper and sold it for $50 million back when $50 million was $50 million.
     
  4. Ralebird

    Ralebird Well-Known Member

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    Nah, it was worth a lot more. Digging a bit deeper, the sale was made in 1979 for $47.5 million which my handy dandy inflation calculator says is now worth a cool $165.8 million as of 2018. She was also due royalties which may still be continuing. Not bad for something she mixed up in her own kitchen from things she had around the house.
     
  5. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    Read what I wrote.
     
  6. Ralebird

    Ralebird Well-Known Member

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    I did. Fifty million was fifty million then; it also was fifty million yesterday; and in 1902.
     
  7. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    Geezuz fuck.

    It was a time value of money joke.

    You didn’t need to quote from the article what $47.5 million in 1979 is worth today.
     
  8. Ralebird

    Ralebird Well-Known Member

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    Hilarious.

    The conversion (not from any article) was just a sidebar if anyone was interested.

    Sorry to upset you.

    Geezuz fuck.
     
  9. Rollo Tomassi

    Rollo Tomassi Well-Known Member

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    So tedious

    Last word.

    Be Ralebird.

    Go to it.
     
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