[RD (OP)]

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20091111/video/vhd-unemployment-could-hit-2-5bn-686f718.html

[Don_1]

Geeze!!! Does this mean we will be unemployed several times over? Can I claim benefit for all the times I am unemployed.

Think I'm on to a winner here.

[RD (OP)]

Make that 2.5 billion and one ex-ITN caption writer.

[Nizzle]

I think it's time for the UK to acknowledge the fact that their colonies all across the world are independent now...

[glovesforfoxes]

NO! NO NIZZLE!

THE SUN WILL NEVER SET!

[RD (OP)]

Yet another news agency can't tell billion from million ...

[Tiger Woods] whose personal fortune is estimated at $1 billion (608,294 pounds)

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN3051777520091201

A billion US dollars is about 600,000,000 pounds, not "608,294 pounds".

[Geezer]

Ahem. In the UK, a billion used to be 1,000,000,000,000. Did the EEC nick three zeros?

[RD (OP)]

a billion used to be 1,000,000,000,000

Tiger may be loaded*, but even Bill Gate$ doesn't have a million million bucks.

 (* not an alcohol reference  [])