Re: humorous if off topic (follows on to: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues...)

[hshubs@mindspring.com (Howard S Shubs)]

In article <37cb301a.33923684@news.shuswap.net>, genew@shuswap.net wrote:

>lcsystem@lcc.net wrote:
>
>>In article <7qcqa7$5ai$1@newshost.comnet.co.nz>,
>>  gmiller@inca.co.nz (Gaven Miller) wrote:
>>> Howard S Shubs (hshubs@mindspring.com) wrote:
>>> > william.hamblen@nashville.com wrote:
>>>
>>> > >The exchange was in the '50s.  I was a small boy when I saw the
>>Hope
>>> > >Diamond while it toured the USA before it went to its permanent
>>home
>>> > >at the Smithsonian.  It was blue.
>>>
>>> > I bet it still is.
>>>
>>> Hasn't anybody done anything to cheer it up?
>>>
>>Lot's of people have tried.  But it has heard all of those rumors of how
>>it is cursed and it has started to believe that they are true...
>
>     The Hopeless Diamond?