Also on her list were a Zenith TV set, a wire soap dish, and a Hollywood-Regency-style standing ashtray.
The World Cup has provided no small amount of drama, perhaps reaching a zenith on Tuesday, when the Uruguayan player Luis Suárez, in a fit of rage, sank his teeth into the shoulder of Giorgio Chiellini, from the Italian team.
After I launched into a long soliloquy on a certain Zenith gold-filled chronograph, he said to me, "Wow, you're in deep".
Portraits of Jesus, Martin Luther King, and her many nieces and nephews kept her company, as did the flat-screen television propped on an old Zenith console the size of a washing machine, and that cat abandoned by a neighbor's death.
Barbet Schroeder's movie helped to mark Irons's on-screen zenith, following fast on the heels of his startling turn as twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers, a venture that could have been subtitled Damage well before Irons stripped off opposite Juliette Binoche for David Hare's screenplay of the Josephine Hart novel.
There is little doubt that for almost all its very diverse fans, the Carry Ons reached their zenith in 1968 with Carry On Up The Khyber, a neo-Kiplingesque tale of a very unlikely Raj with Sidney James as a Victorian pro-consul and Kenneth Williams as the rebellious Khasi of Kalabar.
In 1819 he built for the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel a transit circle, combining the transit, an instrument used for determining longitude and time, with the mural circle, an instrument mounted on a wall for zenith measurement.
Previously circulated on low-quality bootleg VHS tapes among a small but devoted legion of Lynde lovers, this Halloween celebration again looks the way it did on a 19-inch Zenith 31 years ago, courtesy of a rediscovered tape, a tiny distribution outfit called S'more Entertainment Inc. and its kitsch-loving president, Arny Schorr.
Those type fantasize of spending 500 bones on a 1980's Zenith TV look alike remote to control their high-end audio equipment.
