On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:32, Daniel Crookston wrote:
> What really gets me is diamonds.  DeBeers has acres and acres of railroad
> cars full of diamonds in South Africa (or somewhere, anyway) that they're
> withholding from the market to make sure that diamonds stay expensive.  And
> if you so much as *suggest* that a girl consider an alternative to a diamond
> (not even a cz, mind you - you can get chemically perfect lab-created
> diamonds, or moissanite which is prettier than diamonds anyway, for a
> fraction of the price of a dug up diamond) they start crying and say you
> don't love them.
> 
> I'm either going to marry a girl who's sensible enough to realize that we're
> talking about a piece of carbon, or get so whipped that I'm not thinking
> straight.

My guess, from personal experience and observation, is the latter will
happen.

Bryan



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