From: Man@the.keyboard   
      
   On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:32:23 -0700, Don_from_AZ   
    wrote:   
      
   >John  writes:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:10:11 +0000, Andy Burns    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Chris wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> What house in any decent area doesn't have jewellery?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Mine .... but then, I don't have a Misses, either! ;-P   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>A nice watch?   
   >>   
   >>  Not in my house.   
   >>   
   >>  The wife had a watch that she liked. I was a "Man's" watch, it was   
   >> inexpensive and it was bigger than her hand. It also has a resale   
   >> value of about 30p.   
   >>   
   >>  I have a dead Casio watch that could have antique value. It's closing   
   >> in on being fifty years old or so. I also have, somewhere one of their   
   >> original portable calculators. Same vintage. Neither is worth lifting.   
   >>  Unless someone out there is a collector?   
   >>   
   >>                                                             J.   
   >I have a Casio watch of that vintage that still works! Some of the   
   >buttons are non-functional now, but it tells me the day of the week, the   
   >date, and the time of day, which is really all I need from a wristwatch.   
      
    Cool.   
      
    That's the nice thing about machinery. Take care of it and it'll do   
   its job for Aeons.   
      
                                                                     J.   
      
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