It might surprise you to known how many words rhyme with Botox.
But when you think about it or, better still, consult the Collins Rhyming Dictionary (which brings you today's column), you find there are a lot.
There is outfox, chickenpox, orthodox, matchbox and new socks.
There is a paradox in a lunchbox, a pox on rocks and flocks of clocks at the school of hard knocks.
Luckily, Botox is unlike any of the words that have no rhyme.
They include month, ninth, wasp, cusp, depth and else. Also Welsh.
Spend the rest of the day proving that wrong.
Last week, this column received a 43-inch television and just recently - more recently even than last week - watched Face Facts: The Truth About Botox on it.
The Truth About Botox will be on the Living Channel next Tuesday at 8.30pm.
A rhyme: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition, approves all form of competition.
A little bit about television size: There are televisions that are bigger than 43 inches (and no, I don't know why we talk about television size in inches, not centimetres).
There are people with televisions that are 50 inches, but that is too big, and people of that sort are thought crass.
Their friends mock the size of their televisions behind their backs.
But size is important in this situation.
A reasonable size is 40 inches, and if you are just a wee bit flash, you have one that is 42 inches.
Mine is 43 inches. I win.
Anyway - Botox. The Truth About Botox is presented by Kirsten O'Brien (she was born in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough), an English television presenter and standup comic.
The use of cosmetic injections is growing rapidly, apparently, and is not just the domain of people who actually have wrinkles.
Sometimes it goes horribly wrong.
"I can't go round like this for the rest of my life, with all these scabs and puss coming out of my lip," says an otherwise attractive young lady whose lips are in bad shape following complications from treatment.
She cries.
There are lots of shots of needles plunging deep, deep into faces, near the eyes, near the nose, in a way that would make the squeamish squeamish.
On a 43-inch television, these shots are peculiarly awesome.
But "I love the feeling of the needle going in," a woman with strangely pumped-up lips, who spends almost $NZ5000 a year in injections, says.
Another tells of losing her house to her Botox addiction.
Watch, as Kirsten, who is 38, and ashamed to go out in public without make-up, weighs up whether to have a go with injections herself.
Watch it on a really big television.
