32-carat diamond sells for $7.7M at NYC auction

YahooNews ^ | Oct 21 2009 | ULA ILNYTZKY

[Daffynition]

[Salamander]

Diamonds:

Don’t like ‘em.

Buy me something useful like software, leather garments or weapons, instead.

[airborne]

$7.7 million could build a nice, self contained hideaway way back in the mountains. With a nice lake.

[Carley]

Reminding us of the millions of dollars wasted by Ayers/Obama donated by the Annenberg Challenge.

My suspicion is that the money went to ACORN. ALL OF IT

And we see how well those millions helped the poor children in Chicago.

[Ronin]

Or a nice sailboat for a round the world cruise.

[DemonDeac]

Humans are odd creatures. Some of us will spend two hundred times what the average American makes in a year just to buy a pretty rock.

[Daffynition]

[Salamander]

True.

So gimme a honkin’ big diamond that I can sell and buy something useful....:)

[Fresh Wind]

It’s just carbon.

[Daffynition]

Same here. I don’t get excited about material things anyway. Stuff like jewelery, ends up owning you.

Save for a reliable watch, I don’t see the point of wearing glitter.

They won’t let us have baubles in the convent.

[Daffynition]

...with it’s own set of offsets. ;)

[JoeProBono]

[autumnraine]

I’m so with you. What a waste of money IMO. I can’t sit up at night in the desperate attempts at beating another level with a plain ole ring!

Better yet, take me on a vacation somewhere. That’s what I dream of.

[BykrBayb]

What makes you suspect President Reagan’s chief of protocol was involved with ACORN?

[Daffynition]

Smiling here. You are every kind of brilliant.

[Carley]

Did you ever hear of the Annenberg Challenge?

[elcid1970]

I agree, that kind of cash could buy a nice hideaway. I have been studying such for fifty years starting with Cold War fallout shelters (I was a kid, then).

But (real question) doesn’t Google Earth and other satellite surveillance make escape shelters like that obsolete? Unless it’s an underground bunker?

Anyway, kind of sad how a ninety year old woman buys herself that huge rock, then is gone from this earth a year later. Heck, I’m sixty and I keep asking myself, should I still be buying guns like they’re going out of style?

[scooby321]

Hijacked by Bill Ayers and Zero. Old Walter probably never envisioned his money was going to support Maoist.

[GOP_Lady]

It’s so beautiful.

I would love to hold it in my hands for one minute.

[Hot Tabasco]

Looks like cubic zirconia to me.....I think they’ve been had.