Horology!

Yeah yeah, I know this ain't Alt.sex.prostitution butt since it is AFTSD
time and the 19xx series of years is drawing to a close, I thought I
would  tangenitally muse about this discipline.

Did you know that there is an Museum that has a Curator of Horology? I
guess the English *DO* have a museum for everything!  Jonathan Betts is
his name and by all accounts he is a man who loves his job!  "Being Nice
to visitors is part of my job" chortled Betts, an amiable 44-year-old
who...is one of the best-known and most respected horologists in the
world today.

He also understands the value of a buck... "Say I owe you twenty dollars
and pay you back a dollar at a time," he explained.  "You don't consider
the debt settled until I've given you the last penny of the twentieth
dollar.  Betts presides over one of the world's finest Horological
collections which includes an exhibit on the "Mona Lisa of Horology" who
won a 20,000 pound prize in 1774 by the personal intervention of King
George III and finally allowed British Sailors to

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