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