May 10 2007Largest pearl in the world for auction
This is the Arco Valley Pearl. It's a 575-carat pearl that's 3.1 inches long and 800 years old. It's going up for auction at Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace and on the Internet where it's estimated to get $8 million. It's pretty nice I guess, but it looks super deformed. I thought pearls were supposed to be round. You give this thing to your girlfriend and she's going to throw it back in your face and start crying because you didn't love her enough to buy her a normal looking pearl.
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Reader Comments
1. SuperGreen420 - May 10, 2007 8:04 AM
FIRST!
it's a first for me.
2. Bill Gates - May 10, 2007 8:07 AM
I'm placing a bid, guaranteed. I'm going to own that bitch, f*** ya.
3. james - May 10, 2007 8:28 AM
Yesterday night I was standing in line at the movie theater waiting to buy tickets, and I noticed that the girl in front of me was wearing really tight jeans. Turns out it wasn't a girl, it was a guy but damn did his ass look awesome in those jeans. I couldn't help myself but to reach into my back pocket to feel my own ass imagining it was his. I tried to play it off like I was trying to get something out of my pocket but I don't think the girl standing next to me bought it because the girl standing next to me was my girlfriend and she could tell.
Then it was our turn to buy tickets and I noticed that she was gazing into my eyes and drooling. I think when I was feeling my own ass it really turned her on, but it might have been because she has down syndrome
4. Oresti Tsonopoulos - May 10, 2007 8:57 AM
Largest*
5. ace - May 10, 2007 9:48 AM
James. You. Rule.
6. BNew - May 10, 2007 10:07 AM
little did they know it was only calcified whale poo
7. james - May 10, 2007 2:07 PM
BNEW, that was funny
8. Ming - May 10, 2007 2:19 PM
The Arco Valley pearl is the largest pearl on the MARKET. Click the link and it says the largest pearl in the world is like 9" but that sucker isn't for sale.
9. vanman - May 10, 2007 7:04 PM
In my experience, gobs in that shape tend to be more appreciated by a lady when given as a pearl necklace. The one's I've given may not have the monetary value of the one above, but their sentimental value is most likely through the roof!!
10. CAPITALLETTERS - May 11, 2007 10:12 AM
It looks like an enormous tumour. I think it's smashing.
11. megalomanic - May 25, 2007 8:37 PM
That must have been a huge ass oyster, who's auctioning-off that sucker? I'm so craving a fried oyster po' boy now...
12. Amy - April 3, 2008 6:45 PM
I think the pearl's natural shape is like that- I think it's like when they find diamonds- they have to cut it into shape. Which is a shame in my opinion.