[TML] Personal Armor Noise was Re: Current USAF fleet

[Knapp]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/4/08 6:44 PM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > (If you read the rest of this guide look at how they try and press you
>  > into the "better" diamond purchase. Really quite funny. Mostly, it is
>  > about how bad you will look to your peers, if you get a "lesser"
>  > diamond. Will she still love you if you come home with THAT? Come on
>  > now, how many can really resist with the new partner on your arm?)
>
>  I've always thought it funny when people take "advice" from a salesman.
>  After all, his sole purpose is to get as much money out of you as possible.
>  His "advice" is no more than sales patter.
>
>
>  > BTW diamonds are VERY hard to sell for a good price second hand! They
>  > are not a good investment. They are however very pretty, women seem to
>  > like them and it is about what they represent not what they are really
>  > worth.
>
>  To me they've always represented a hunk of carbon treated by great pressure
>  & heat for millennia...
>
>  Or somebody with a lot of money saying "Look how much I'm willing to spend
>  to impress somebody".  Honestly, for the price some middle class people are
>  willing to pay for a diamond ring, doesn't furnishing an entire living room
>  with furniture say "I love you" better?  Or even making a down payment on
>  that house to live in?  :P

You must be male? Are you married?
-- 
Douglas E Knapp
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