Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> At 08:37 PM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> >
> > > Just saw a TV commercial for the "Sears Big Weekend Sale."
> > >
> > > First sequence: two guys looking at large-screen TVs. One says to the
> > > other, "If we get the little one now, we'll wish we'd gotten the bigger one
> > > later."
> > >
> > > Second sequence: we see a man and a woman from the back. The woman says,
> > > "If we get the little one now, we'll wish we'd gotten the bigger one
> > > later." The camera angle changes to show that they are standing at the
> > > jewelry counter, holding a ring box . . .
> >
> >I don't get what it is with big rings.
>
> I don't know, either, other than the obvious message "My boyfriend can
> afford a ring this big (_and yours can't_)," or "Look, Mom, I did as you
> said and landed a rich doctor."
My mom never said a *darned* thing about a rich doctor. :P But I've
met women with that attitude, and I just don't get it.
> >After that, I decided that bigger is *not* better, at least
> >as far as rings go.
> >
> >My engagement ring is a 1/3 carat diamond, and that's as much
> >jewelry-grade diamond as I really need, truth be told. (Industrial
> >diamonds may be another story.)
>
> You are expecting perhaps to someday be captured by aliens and locked in a
> giant glass test tube from which you will have to cut your way free?
No, but if I have to drill a hole in the patio, it might help. (Nothing
like an over-engineered steel-reinforced concrete barrier to give you
appreciation for that sort of thing....)
> >Now, on the large-screen TV, I'm with the guys. :)
>
> Watching girlie flicks?
Nah, watching football and action movies.
Julia
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