I am something of an archaism, I confess, in more ways than my penchant for purple prose: I still listen to the radio on the way to work.

GEICO Insurance runs nearly as many ads on radio as they do on television, and the most recent one is, shall we say, Relevant To Our Interests for reasons more than their anthropormphic mascot.

In this one, the aforementioned Gecko is conversing with a local GEICO representative, and toward the end of the commercial, ask, "Is that a poster of me on the wall?"

Upon hearing a response in the affirmative, he muses, "It's true. The camera really does add ten ounces."

Oh, thinks Typical Classic Rock Aficionado, an amusing permutation of "the camera adds ten pounds", but since he's a tiny lizard, it's in ounces! What wit!

Your Humble Servant, on the other wing, thinks, Wait. Ten ounces? Just how much does a gecko that size weigh?

According to Wikipedia ... two and a half ounces.

I would love to see a poster of GEICO's already-adorable mascot with his weight quintupled.