Today's Lesson in Music and Economics

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If the online catalog description includes a reference to an episode of History Detectives, then you can not afford the guitar.  Whatever the price turns out to be, the buyer should throw in an extra 15 cents and get a meatball.  No bread. 

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

"$INQU.IRE" is kind of a funny way to write a price.

Wouldn't "$INQUI.RE" make more sense, putting two characters after the decimal point?

Unless the seller is trying to hint that the price will be four figures, not five.