it's not that big

Life

Just so everyone's clear, use of the word "millions" is not anywhere near enough exaggeration in today's world, when talking about large numbers of anything. A million of anything is quite average. Everyone is a millionaire these days. I've got a million of this, you've got a million of that. Whatever.

No. If you want to express a large quantity, you need to use "billions". A billion is big. Really big. There aren't too many billions of things out there. Having a billion of something is a lot. If you have a billion things to do, well... you poor bastard, you probably did something in a previous life to deserve it.

But if you really need to exaggerate, if you have a dire need to express something phenomenally big, the be-all-and-end-all-of bigness that you can only really understand after meditating about fairy cake, when you need hyperbole in the extreme, then "trillions" is your adjective of the moment. There's no mistake of understatement with trillions.

Use with care, comes with no warranty, void where prohibited. Etc. Etc.

PS: It's "voilĂ ", not "walla". Duh.

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Posted Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 23:09.

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