Diamonds Are No Longer A Girl's Best Friend

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-7-2006 | Chris Hastings - Stephanie Plentl - Beth Jones

[nopardons]

Nice cousin! :-)

[nopardons]

Thanks! :-)

[onyx]

LOL! Works for me, bannie!

[nopardons]

LOL...most women don't want a leather Lazyboy! :-)

[bannie]

Maybe the price will dip.

:-o

Maybe the market will fail, and those extremely poor miners who barely scrape a living out of the market will have NO income.

[tioga]

For every cause out there, there is a hollywierdo willing embrace it.

[onyx]

:0)

[nopardons]

Oh YUCK! :-(

[nopardons]

The price of fur hasn't dropped, even with the Hollyweirdos jumping on PETA's bandwagon, so it stands to reason that diamond prices won't either.

LOL...that's some contract you have with your wife. And congrats on soon reaching the 30 year mark. Come spring, my husband and I will celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. :-)

[Nailbiter]

for later

[nopardons]

Exactly so!

[Bernard Marx]

My alexandrite ring, which I bought in Bermuda was real; it was appraised. I really never cared much for it and gave it to my dear friend

I'm really curious to learn more about that stone. How big was it (approximate weight in carats?) Do you recall the shape: oval, rectangular, other? What were its colors under daylight and tungsten light? What sort of jeweler in Bermuda sourced it?

[packrat35]

Conflict diamonds were also a plot point for James Bond Die Another Day (2002)

[rimtop56]

. . . to be a more ethnical consumer," she said.

I don't think she will be able to achieve that.

[djf]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1723614/posts#4

[ExtremeUnction]

The success of the film..

According to Box Office Mojo, this movie, which cost 100m to make, has taken in just 42m in the 29 days since its release. In other words, it was not a success. It bombed.

[SuziQ]

Yeah, well, next year, the bimbos will have forgotten this little kerfuffle, and the diamonds will be out of the designers' vaults again. After all, with the exception of Elizabeth Taylor, the stars don't usually own those big rocks, they RENT them for the awards shows.

[nopardons]

It was round, was somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 carats, and changed from an off greeny color to a reddish/purplely color, if IIRC. I bought it on a lark, it really wasn't my style, so I gave it away and haven't given it another thought since..... until this thread.

I bought it in Bermuda, from a well known jeweler; but, it was appraised in the USA, by the family jeweler, who was ( he's now deceased )very knowledgeable and well respected.

[nopardons]

They don't even "rent" them; they BORROW them and are followed around all night by security guards that the jewelers send with the pieces! LOL

[LukeL]

Well I guess that is why I will never understand women.