On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:27:22 -0700, John Smith
wrote:

I repeat, only a fool would buy a natural diamond ... you can find the
manufactured ones in better jewelery stores ... they are about 1/3 of
the cost of natural ones, at this time

Even cheaper, you can make your own diamonds in your microwave oven:
http://hypography.com/forums/chemistry/804-make-diamond-out-of-your-microwave.html
The main ingredients are charcoal briquettes and peanut butter.
Hmmm... they seem to have left out the requisite plama torch.
Let us know how the diamond smells, err... looks.
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