What a guy!

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:10 pm

He names it after his WIFE!! :-4

MURFREESBORO, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas man has found a 2.37-carat white diamond at the world's only diamond-bearing site where visitors are allowed to search for and keep the gems they find.

Gary Dunlap of Jefferson named the diamond he found the Star of Thelma to honor his wife of more than 10 years. Dunlap's find was the fourth-largest diamond found in 2006 at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. In all, 486 diamonds have been found at the park this year.

Dunlap found the gem Sunday while looking near a Bois d'Arc tree on the park's 37.5-acre search field. He said he felt certain the shiny stone was a diamond when he picked it up off the ground. Dunlap has visited the park about a dozen times but this was his first diamond find.

In March, a state trooper from Nowata, Okla., unearthed the 4.21 yellow Okie Dokie Diamond. In September, a Point, Texas, couple found the 6.35-carat brown Roden Diamond. The following month, a visitor from Ripon, Wis., found the 5.47-carat yellow Sunshine Diamond.

The largest of the 25,000 diamonds found at the park since it became a state park in 1972 is the 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight. A visitor from Texas found the white diamond in 1975.

(Maybe the guy who named the Okie Dokie diamond did, too!!)

:-6

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:11 pm

What a guy! I love the names of the diamonds people have found!

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:13 pm

LOL...can't you just imagine Elizabeth Taylor, wearing the Okie Dokie diamond? :wah:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:15 pm

Amarillo Yellow, that one was cool too!

911 · Post by **911** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:15 pm

But did he give it to her? That's the question!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:16 pm

:wah: He better!

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:43 pm

I've just remembered that Elizabeth Taylor proudly showed off a ring she had, which contained what she called the "PING PONG" diamond! Yes, she'd beaten Richard Burton in a ping pong game and.....well.....you know......

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:49 pm

Pff...

That bas**rd would have been sold the next day.

My wife and I could then go to Hawaii on a beach all to ourselves...

That thing wouldn't have lasted long to even consider naming it.