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

[Charles Richmond <richmond@plano.net>]

Errr...well, that's the way I heard it anyway.  I am *sure* that the Smithsonian
still has that pasteboard box somewhere--they really are anal-retentive, you know.

J wrote:
> 
> I spent two days at Smithsonian this weekend on business. Took my daughter
> especially to see the hope diamond. Smithsonian magazine printed a story that
> backs up the maiing of the hope diamond story, but there is no cardboard box with
> the diamond. Its in a glass case in the middle of the floor in the Museum Of
> Natural History in the Minerlas section. very elegantly displayed. No box to be
> seen.
> 
> Charles Richmond wrote:
>
> > Kind of like the Hope Diamond.  The Hope Diamond is one of the largest
> > diamonds in the world in a single chunk.  About 20 years ago, the guy
> > who owned it decided he would donate it to the Smithsonian museum.  The
> > problem was he lived in New York City, and the Smithsonian was hundreds
> > of miles away in Washington, D.C.  So how could he safely ship the diamond?
> >
> > He decided to wrap it up in a pasteboard box and *mail* it to the Smithsonian.
> > Just sent it via regular mail, and I doubt that he insured it since it would
> > be worth *millions* of dollars.  And geuss what...it got to the Smithsonian
> > just fine.  So when you go to see it, you will see a cardboard box in the same
> > case with the diamond.  That's the box it was shipped in.  (The Smithsonian
> > keeps everything...they are very anal-retentive.)
> >
> 

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