Now, even though this scheme quickly began to resemble East LA, I took plunge anyway. The result? Nothing! Nil! Zilch! Dada! Nada! Nein! (did I cover all civilized expressive languages)?

Oh sure, I did math! And, from where I sat, it looked GREAT! I was even counting down days until morning I would pop on old monitor to see my email so flooded with "Requests For More Info!" in subject line, that my auto responder service would call me up, begging on hands and knees, "Kenny! Please! Make 'em stop! We can't keep this up! Our servers can't handle it!"

Yes, visions of sugar plums wrapped in fresh greenbacks ("dead presidents" if you're underground) danced merrily through my head. I was SURE that it was only a matter of time before I would be submitting exorbitant invoice sums to both Bill Gates and Ted Turner for compensation in exchange for my invaluable financial advice. Heck, I could even make covers of Time, Newsweek, U.S. News, and many more as "Man of Year!" Alas, it was not to be.

What I am attempting to convey is that I lost money and got scr-, uh, messed over. Now, I'm no marketing "newbie." In fact, I was marketing for over 15 years offline prior to going online. And, I've been marketing on Internet for quite some time now. But, temptation has a way of getting to all of us at some point. They say everyone has his or her price (and, mine was that dang pressing house payment).

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[Home Business Opportunity so you can earn a Monthly Residue from home. We will supply you with FREE Loads. Training in ??????? on 15th of September.]

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Wow! How about that "home business opportunity"...can't that be taken waaaay out of context and allude to obtaining possible position of a "drug dealer?" Nothing like letting cops know where you are going to be training new crew so they can make a raid. In addition, can't people go to jail for smoking "residue," whether monthly, weekly, or daily for that matter. What about being "freely loaded?" Isn't that also a criminal offense in certain sectors of society?

I'm certain of it because, when I was a police officer, my partner and I used to discover such individuals in both of these unfortunate positions. And, as such, our sworn state and civic duties required, no, demanded that we Mirandacize them, then escort them to what some deemed our house of pain. :-)

But, in truth, above ad's "home business opportunity" *isn't* about offer to become a drug dealer, smoking dope or being loaded. It is, alternatively, about not re-checking our work before presenting it to others in efforts to entice them to join us on our adventurous venture.

Now, I've always been a fairly good speller and made good grades on spelling tests while in school (don't ask about 8th-grade Algebra). It's just a pet peeve I developed early in life. Actually, it probably became an obsession along way as I also minored in English in college.

But, above headline presents a paradox of duality in that, term, "residue," used in above ad, really *isn't* misspelled...it is simply misused within context and confine of ad. It is my assessment that author actually intended to use term, "residual," instead.

But, failing to proofread and re-check our work before presenting it is no laughing matter. It simply presents to others that we are, at best, in such a hurry or desperate to make a dollar, that we place very little importance and spend very little time on our information presented.