What really gets me is diamonds. DeBeers has acres and acres of railroad cars full of diamonds in South Africa (or somewhere, anyway) that they're withholding from the market to make sure that diamonds stay expensive. And if you so much as *suggest* that a girl consider an alternative to a diamond (not even a cz, mind you - you can get chemically perfect lab-created diamonds, or moissanite which is prettier than diamonds anyway, for a fraction of the price of a dug up diamond) they start crying and say you don't love them.
I'm either going to marry a girl who's sensible enough to realize that we're talking about a piece of carbon, or get so whipped that I'm not thinking straight. Daniel > The funny thing is, gold and diamonds do have some practical uses > today that make them valuable (albeit probably not to the extent that > we value them). Historically, it was mostyle the "shiny doodad" quality, > combined with relative scarcity (and sometimes artificially > created scarcity) that led people to decide they were valuable. > > And we all go along with it, blissfully ignorant. :) > > Dave ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
