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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>This is wildly OT, but I just have to
say how much I hate one currentTV commercialfeaturing Buffy star,
Sarah Michelle Gellar. It's for some sort of mascara and she endorses it
with the line:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>"It's like I have a billion lashes,
all outrageously full and soft!"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>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
waytoo much eyelash for one human head!!!'?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>There's also an infomercial running
on cable in which Wonderwoman (Linda thingy) 'interviews' Victoria Principal
about - quel surprise - her innovative range of facial cosmetics, "The Principal
Secret". All sorts of cod scientific phrases are bandied about and there
are several vox pops of women wearingtoo much make up, raving about the
products. One woman reveals thather face is "luminous again" -
so what is this: she glows in the dark? The way they talk about the
products, you'd have to concludethat Victoria Principal is verily the
Madame Curie of facial preservation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I'm sorry, I just have this niggly
thing about ridiculous science in advertising. How stupid are people to
fall for this?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Neil (yes, I know: I should get out
more)</FONT></DIV>
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and oddly <BR>squashed, as though it had run headlong into a brick wall"
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