Yes, he certainly went overboard with the gift baskets after Penny gave him the Nimoy napkin.
Is “genuine cubic zirconias” an oxymoron?
Nope. There are lower quality ‘fake diamonds’ sometimes passed off as Cubic Zirconia. If you’re paying for it you’d want the real fake stuff.
I would assume that Sheldon would go for cultured (lab-created) diamonds. That would appeal to his exacting nature.
I would guess he spent in the range of $1-3k. You can get quite a lot for that.
Why would Sheldon keep uncashed paychecks around? Don’t paychecks expire after a certain amount of days? IIRC my checks had a shelf life of 2 years.
Also wouldn’t the University have forced him to do paperless checks?
He didn’t deliberately keep them around. He shoved them in a drawer and forgot about them.
It’s not a new thing. In the 1951 movie No Highway in the Sky absent-minded engineering genius (a “boffin”) Theodore Honey shoved uncashed paychecks in a desk drawer, which were eventually found by his girlfriend.
And there are always a couple of fifties in Green Lantern’s ass.
I think a major part was that he can’t drive and The Roommate Agreement specifies that transportation is a part of the deal.
*The Tangible Affection Proof * is another example of Sheldon’s largesse. He reaches into his pockets and his desk drawer at work to pull out $2000 in wadded up bills and gives it to his assistant to buy Amy a Valentine’s Day gift.
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I think it was less of a case of stashing money away as it was more that he didn’t like the way the stuff felt in his pockets or it made his wallet too fat for comfort so he just dumped in in his desk. If it was more deliberate, I’m sure Sheldon would have it in a single stack, in order of denomination, with a rubber band or bulldog clip holding it.
I go with fake diamond.
There are some incredible pseudo-diamonds out there. Cubic zirconium doesn’t even come close. They’ve invented little electric gizmos to for jewelers to use to test if something is real or fake. But some of the new types of fakes fool even those. The most reliable test is that they look better than real diamonds. (Virtually no flaws and such.)
A real jewelry store will also market in the better quality fakes (and hopefully tell you which is which).
I don’t know, but “Amy’s Tiara” would be a cool name for a band.
At the very least, she is going to want to wear the tiara during coitus. To make her feel like a princess, of course.