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- nihility, on 10/11/2007, -4/+89In other news, peanut butter prices skyrocket while diamond prices hit all-time lows...
- ColonelJessup, on 10/11/2007, -0/+51Husband: Happy anniversary sweetie!
Wife: But it's a jar of Skippy.......
Husband: No, actually it's a jar full of DIAMONDS!
Wife: But...........
Husband: Diamonds honey............. Diamonds. - sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/11/2007, -1/+48In other news scientist are also working on a way to turn jelly into platinum so they can make the most expensive sandwich ever!!!!!!!!!!!
- Tamriel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+42I find this interesting because I'm sure people will say that sure, chemically the peanut butter diamonds are real, but they're just not "the same as" one mined out of the earth. I'd be willing to wager the pb to diamond process is expensive and probably not worth it in the long run, too. But you know what? ***** it. If diamonds were suddenly worthless, maybe those giant companies that don't give a ***** about where or who they get their stupid crystals from in Africa would get put out of business. Maybe in the long run it'd be best to devalue the things.
- rebble810, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29If the diamond conglomerates such as DeBeers actually released all of their stockpiles into the market place diamonds would actually be close to worthless. The belief that diamonds are rare is a misconception as in fact they are not rare but merely made scarce by diamond companies who release small quantities to dealers and jewelers.
- JD52, on 10/11/2007, -2/+29Diamonds aren't worth ***** in the first place.
At least you can eat the peanut butter. - DiggzDE, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23So does this mean I can get my gf a jar a Skippy Peanut Butter now for our engagement?
- OverThere, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22De Beers is now going to purchase all the peanut butter in the world and artificially inflate the price for no reason. What will go with my jelly!!!
- pathy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20They don't think pies should have meat in 'em either. Bloody loons.
- geekchic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I have often heard about this - do people (Americans) really eat jelly with peanut butter?
- geekchic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16But did you count them as well to make sure he counted them correctly?
;) - jd33, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17If nanotechnology goes to the places that are expected, we will be turning pretty much anything into diamonds (or anything else).
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Peanut butter diamonds are forever -- forever single.
- Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Uhm... Yes. Peanut butter and jelly (or, more accurately, jam, or some pseudorealistic synthetic supersugary alternative.) Not Jelly in the jell-o sense.
- fugazi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Are you kidding me?
- ThunderPigs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13"Peanut butter contains levels of carbon"
For some reason that picture caption made me laugh. - mythandros, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13The really sick part is that you took the time to count the exact number of exclamation points he used.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Get a clue redcoat, this country was founded on the principles of Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches.
- jeffeb3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9mmm....diamonds and jelly
- Electric_Sheep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+91. Peanut Butter Jelly
2. Baseball Bat
3. ???
4. Profit!!!! - bobba, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Diamonds may contain traces of nuts...
- Quintios, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9DeBeers would lobby the gov't and require that these diamons be marked in some fashion. Check out Apollo diamonds. Marked. So you will be able to tell it from a mined diamonds. Debeers will force the pb people to laser inscribe the diamonds or something equally lame.
- jeffeb3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10mmmm......peanut butter diamonds.....
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -3/+11I'M RICH BITCH!!!
- moosebumps, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8In yo' face, George Washington Carver!
- pintomp3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9i sprinkle diamonds to everything i eat cuz it makes my doody sparkle
- dillydoo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Diamonds = carbon
Peanut butter = carbon
What's so ***** astounding about all this? Synthetic diamonds have been around for years. - HunterSlayer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7OMGWTFALCHEMY!
- Wonkanobi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Trust me, it's very relevent to this thread...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bWhtkkOYoxo - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Jelly in America is jam in England.
- liambarron, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7If skippy acutally contained anything other than icing sugar and the colour brown.
- patch6, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Diamonds are already near-worthless, but social stigmas contribute to its overinflated value.
De Beers did a good job in searing the false necessity of it into the social consciousness with its long-term marketing campaign. - spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Jelly means jam over there, not really sure what they call jelly
- docsimmons, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5DIAMONDS IN THE MICROWAVE!!!! DIAMONDS IN THE MICROWAVE!!
- markp93, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Now that's a crunchy peanut butter!
- buddyfarr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5this is true. diamonds are actually one of the most abundant jewels on the planet. sucks that the diamond conglomerates do this.
- bogatash, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5PB&D
- mythandros, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7What's that? They're dabbling in gem quality artificial diamonds? Enjoy your novelty display because once DeBeers gets wind of this it'll be the last time you ever see it. Or the people who invented it, for that matter.
- merreborn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Industrial diamonds are 50 years old. Any time diamond dust is used in cutting or sharpening tools (extremely common), that's artificial diamond, not the natural kind.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4A process that can create a larger than 1 karat diamond has been around for a while now. The latest trick that got DeBeers putting hologram etchings on their diamonds, concerns doping the diamond with Carbon 13 "flaws" so that it has similar characteristics of natural diamonds -- because pure artificial diamonds are More Perfect.
The only way to tell the artificial diamonds from the real diamonds is with a UV laser and a detection device. The Carbon-13 causes the natural diamond to fluoresce longer than the artificial. But with today's "flawed" artificial diamonds, it's getting almost impossible to tell.
>> This isn't a Peanut Process, but a diamond 'anvil' process. The peanuts are an example of a high-carbon substance that can be used (good for headlines). It's this compression technique that is novel. - ewang, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Personally, I'm more interested by the comment in the article that these same scientists were making reddish crystals from compressing pure oxygen in the same manner. I'd be interested to see how much those look like rubies...
- Jagershot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If the price of diamonds plummeted, then why would the price of peanut butter still be skyrocketing?
- GliTCH82, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3D'jeah. I'm on Digg for chrissakes, do I look like I have anything better to do with my time?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3My thoughts exactly
- inajeep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Wow the Chunky Peanut butter just got chunkier. (Sorry that's all I got)
- DiggzDE, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4You are a ***** idiot if you thought that was actually real.
- sephiroth965, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Diamonds are the hardest thing on earth. They have lots of uses aside from jewelry. They are definitely not worthless.
- nicepants, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3A peanut-butter sandwich is forever.....
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3Oh, and the diamond industry exists because diamond worth is proportionate to the shallowness of the average female.
- stklaw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yep.
I'll get a peanut butter ring for my future gf -
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