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Message:: [QUOTE="spock1k, post: 380752, member: 7043"]well here are some more it really has to be a spock versus GD final otherwise all the laughter will be gone Fiona came from a nice family, and had recently started her first job in a jeweller's. She was very interested in all the different gemstones, and wanted to learn how to identify them. One day whilst helping to clean the stock, she came across a ring with dozens of stones in it, every one a different colour. Fascinated, she asked the owner why they were all different, and he carefully explained that it was an "alphabet" ring, guaranteed to contain every letter of the alphabet at least once. Being keen to put her new-found gemmological knowledge into practice, she started to study the ring, to try to identify all the different stones. Because her name started with "F", she expected to find a fire opal, but couldn't, and she mentioned this fact to the jeweller. He replied that fire opals were a little too soft to use in rings, but it wasn't necessary for the stones to start with a particular letter, it could be anywhere in the name. After another ten minutes, Fiona could still not find an "F", so she tackled her boss about which gemstone contained the missing letter. "Sapphire, of course", he said (many jewellers seem to be a bit week on their spellings). "But there is no "F" in sapphire", said the well educated Fiona. "Oh, it must have dropped out in the ultrasonic cleaning tank", said the jeweller[/QUOTE]