He's in decent form, tends to be there or thereabouts in The Open, and has played the course approximately a
squillion times (oh, and he holds the course record from many years ago).
It explores why we use words such as "
squillion" for huge numbers, why the definition of the word "sanctuary" used to be very different, and the bodice-ripping language used in Mills & Boon...
ACCORDING to the Department of Imaginary Statistics, about four
squillion hours were lost to the UK workplace last year in production, due to the peasantry taking sick days.
You might think the new mobile phone is a bargain but you won't be so happy when the only thing that arrives in the post is a credit card bill for a
squillion quid and your identity has been sold to a criminal gang in Eastern Europe.
But next time she trots out the pathetic old "I'm just an ordinary girl" line, someone might want to point out that while her dad gave her a
squillion pound trust fund, he forgot to pass on a whole host of other valuable assets, including modesty, discretion and humility.
It's like paying a
squillion dollars to build a mansion in a rainforest.
Some faces and poses are familiar -- Hemingway out hunting pheasant, Pollock splattering a canvas, Peggy Guggenheim preening in a sumptuous Poiret gown (and turban designed by Stravinsky's wife), George Washington looking stern and statesmanlike, an image repeated on a
squillion dollar bills.
Meanwhile over on the high street, we're loving Revlon HD Lipsticks, PS7.99, which have such punchy pigments they're like wearing a
squillion pixels on your lips.
Businessmen couldn't close a thousand, million,
squillion pound deal unless they had one.
Too many, although not all, spend massive proportions of the money they are given building up armies of back office staff and squirrelling away
squillion' into bank reserves rather than spending donated cash on the work they were actually set up to do.
Ten million billion
squillion roubles invested for no return.
Meanwhile over on the high street, we're loving Revlon HD Lipsticks, [euro]10.49, which have such punchy pigments they're like wearing a
squillion pixels on your lips.