Category Archives: Diamonds

Dining On Diamonds

May 18, 2012 – 1:56 pm

The BBC News reported that a Canadian man had been arrested in Windsor for swallowing a 1.7 carat diamond worth $20,000. Police xrayed the 52 year-old thief, however diamonds do not appear in x-rays, so they have forced the robber to drink several bottles of laxatives without any movement of the gemstone trapped in his […]

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The Strands of Pastrami / BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith

September 22, 2010 – 8:36 pm

The Hassidim were hurrying home from the Diamond District. The High Holidays had come early this year with Sukkor coinciding with the ancient pagan festival of Mabon, which commemorates the autumnal equinox. Sukkor is not only a bridge across the Indus, but the festival honoring the 40 years during which the Hebrews were lost in […]

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GOLD AND GUNS / Bet on Crazy by Peter Nolan Smith

September 15, 2010 – 11:58 pm

The price of gold was fixed at $35 after WWII. President Nixon allowed gold to float freely against the dollar in 1971. The London fixed price has climbed precipitously in the last two years to achieve and all-time high against the dollar and people in the USa and other countries are eager to monetize old […]

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Monday Monday

August 30, 2010 – 3:21 pm

The weekend was long. A Friday night drive to Easthampton. Dinner and wine followed by drinks. Sleep till 9am. A swim in the ocean. Rough waves and vicious riptides. Saturday night was more of the same and Sunday was a repeat of the previous evening. 24 bottles of wine between 5 people accompanied by sundry […]

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Green Lantern Gems / Bet on Crazy by Peter Nolan Smith

August 24, 2010 – 9:14 pm

Earth has been traveling through the universe for billions of years. During these eternal eons the planet has been subjected to radiation from a myriad of sources, although none greater than the Earth itself and this intense contact with radioactivity is what turns diamonds into the second rarest of colors “green’. The process actually alters […]

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