Jeff Liebermann wrote:
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.

Damn things taste like they have sand in 'em ... it grits on my teeth
too! ROFLOL

Regards,
JS