# Marketing triumps..How Did They Ever Sell This??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marketing-triumps-how-did-they-ever-sell-this/256330>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 22, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marketing-triumps-how-did-they-ever-sell-this/256330 "2004-07-22T12:43:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marketing-triumps-how-did-they-ever-sell-this/256330/81 "2004-07-27T03:37:14Z")

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> [@mhendo](#):
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> I wonder if the OP is ever going to return and explain his hypocrisy regarding fashion clothing?

Why return and explain when you can [repeat yourself](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=264664)? Seems, too, that [Mr. Armani](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=262679) has a Svengali-like hold on his mind.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marketing-triumps-how-did-they-ever-sell-this/256330/82 "2004-07-27T11:17:01Z")

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> [@Dangerosa](#):
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> Diamonds: Synthetics may be just as nice, but try getting engaged with one. Your choices are to hand your girlfriend the ring with “and I got a deal on it because its synthetic” (to which she hears “I don’t love you enough to buy you a real diamond.”) Or you can hope she never finds out, because when she does she will think you lied to her and bought her a fake diamond and passed it off as real. Real diamonds will always be real diamonds. Synthetics will always be “fake.” Although I like a bargain, I really hope these diamonds I’m wearing in my ears are “real” or Brainiac4 will be in deep doo doo if I ever find out otherwise. Fake diamonds are too much like infidelity, in some strange way.

:::DeBeers technician holds up Dangerosa’s brain:::

“Well, this one is nicely scrubbed!”

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