[HPFGU-OTChatter] Small rant about cosmetics' ads

[Neil Ward]

Neil quoted: "It's like I have a billion lashes, all outrageously full and
soft!"

And then translated: "She looks like a rabbit trapped in headlights at the
best of times, but, to me, this conjures up an image of two mutant
tarantulas nestling in her eye sockets.  Does anyone else think,
'100,000,000 "outrageously" full and soft eyelashes - that's way too much
eyelash for one human head!!!'?"

Yael corrected me:

As a mathematician, I couldn't resist (Simon, back me up here!) Neil, those
are 1,000,000,000 eyelashes. You're missing a zero.

***

You're right.  Actually, I did mean to type that correctly, but my own
outrageously full eyelashes obscured my view - it's a lorra lorra lashes,
either way!  As SMG is American, I was very careful to use the US version of
a billion (1,000,000,000) rather than the rather outmoded British version
(1,000,000,000,000): mathematicians, correct me if I'm wrong, but the UK now
prefers 10(9), rather than 10(12) for a billion?

Neil