Posted on 10/28/2014 2:22:14 PM PDT by Libloather
Fifty years ago, John Spinello, a student at the University of Illinois, invented the board game 'Operation' which lets kids pretend to be surgeons. Now at the age of 77, Spinello can't afford his own real-life operation, reports Huffington Post.
The oral surgery that he needs will cost him $25,000—a burdensome bill after selling the rights to his 'Operation' game to Milton Bradley for just $500.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
seems to me fifty years ago $500 was decent money and he made the choice to sell instead of trying to market it himself. Sorry MSN, not buying into your greedy corporation angle.
Isn’t there a blue pill or something he can take?
$3,778.27 according to the BLS (US Govt) http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
A line from the exhaust pipe to the front window?
25 grand for oral surgery seems a bit ....stiff.
Wow, prices for surgery has sure gone up! It only cost $100 to remove a wrenched ankle, $200 to take out the funny bone.
Ten weeks at minimum wage.
Not to mention that he chose to sell it...
What’s the point of this article? That Milton Bradley is evil? That I should feel sorry for this guy?
Milton Bradley (or whoever owns them now) might consider picking up the bill and get some PR out of it.
Trouble, where does that stop? What if he needs more surgery down the road? His relatives? Company employees?
No good deed would go unpunished.
Maybe Obama could just pay it out of his stash, I don’t know.
If M-B wanted to score a PR windfall, they could pay for his surgery. No obligation to do so, obviously.
You mean Obama Care is not going to cover the surgery? I’m shocked.
Did he have legal advice before agreeing to sell his product I wonder?
He would need to look in the mirror, so he can see his nose light up when he is poking around in the wrong place.
Someone took out his funnybone?..................
LOL, I saw what you did there. Good one.
I don’t take the article as necessarily an attempt to demonize Milton Bradley. The article is pointing out the irony that someone who used his creative mind to design a simple board game that remains very popular to this day, may be unable to have THEE most important operation in his life. Milton Bradley owes him nothing, but you know how we Amercians are as we slowly walk toward the Christmas Season. Sentiment, emotion, nostalgia and even gratitude rule the day, become the center of our collective minds.
Milton B. would probably earn more money from the positive public relations. The stipulation might be, can we film your pre-surgery exam and use it as a commerical? Your Surgical Team will be dressed as Santa’s Helper’s with the Lead Surgeon in white beard and a red felt hat with tassle.
I read somewhere that when Vincent Price was asked to be the voice of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” MTV video, he was offered $25,000 up-front, or 10% of revenue on it - and he took the $25K up-front.
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