As guilty as the whole family seemed in the JonBenet case, I think there was physical evidence (prints and hair) found at the scene and on the body that didn't match the mother, father or brother. Hence the unsub theory. I'm interested to see who they did arrest though.

You and me brenda, great minds.

Honestly, I don't know enough about the case to have a very informed opinion (this can be said about a great many subjects as well).

Mom didn't have an engagement ring either and dad doesn't wear jewelry of any sort. I don't know when it occurred to me that it was outside US norms. I'm guessing my brother doesn't have/doesn't wear a wedding ring because it would seem weird enough to me if he did that I'd note it.

I was just reading an article on the Ramsey case a couple of weeks ago. There was a mention that new techniques might help the case. Timing is suspicious, anyway.

I missed the news that Patsy Ramsey had died back in June.

My mother didn't have an engagement ring until she had one made a few years ago. During their engagement, such as it was, she borrowed Gram's.

Yet another reason I'm irked that my least-loved cousin has the thing now.

But, anyhow.

To my surprise, I discovered that much of central Europe wears wedding rings on the right hand.

I know that if you're Orthodox (Christian, that is), that's the usual place. At least if you're Russian.

Our friends from Germany (and who now live in Holland) wear theirs on their right hands (and I seem to recall learning this was customary, from them).

Rings: I prefer emeralds, rubies or garnets. I like color. That said, I do own my grandmother's evening ring, which is ornate white gold with teeny diamonds in it. The diamonds came from her first wedding band, and when Grandpa bought her a new wedding ring for an anniversary, she used the diamonds from the first one to go in the evening ring.

It kind looks like a bow/ribbon thing, and nothing I would choose myself, but it is pretty and more importantly, it was my grandma's. The band is very thin from many years of wearing, and it split. I had it repaired, but the welding split again, and it needs to be fixed before I can wear it again.

When my mom said she was going to box my ears, she meant a light cuff/open-handed thwap to the ear/side of the head. Not the eardrum thing.

The problem I've had with kneeing a guy in the nuts it's (a) I'm short (b) this affects my aim and I knee their thigh (not nearly as effective) and (c) I just haven't had that much practice at it.

It's is wrong that I feel cheated, in that I've only kneed two guys in the nuts, and missed on one?

A friend told me that in Germany an engagement ring is a plain band worn on the left hand. At the ceremony it's switched to the right hand and becomes the wedding ring.

I don't know if my mother has an actual wedding band or not. I know growing up that what I thought was her wedding ring is what I found out to be described as an engagement ring. I do know my cousin is the first male on either side of the family to wear a wedding ring.

The males on both sides of my family (myself included) don't wear jewelry at all, so seeing my cousin with the wedding band always seems odd to me.