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Top Cutlines/Friday — 10/10/05

LifeGem shows off one of its creations: a diamond made from the ashes of cremated remains. LifeGem uses super-hot ovens to transform ashes to graphite and then presses the stone into blue and yellow diamonds that retail for anywhere from $2,700 to $20,000. You write the cutline.

Top Cutlines:

1. Ashes to ashes,/Dust to dust,/I am finally the object/Of my dear wife's lust -- Family Phil

2. (tie) As Mrs. Johnson admired her new ring, she mused, “Ralph never looked better” -- Whatever. And: Mom always said he was a diamond in the rough -- The Widow.

3. Not content with getting a pound of flesh from her henpecked husband in life, the merry widow can now extract some serious bling from his ashes -- Jane Q. Citizen.

HM: Granati



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.