Some things never change. But while there's always someone in the business of offering to set you up in a business, the ads in MI came with a different set of beliefs. Work hard and use our products, it said, and you can make a living. None of them offered to let you work from home, and none implied that you could be a six-pack shy of a case, poorer than an Enron shareholder and have the ethics of a record executive and still be able to Make Big Bucks In Your Spare Time.

You'd think, though, that the woman would be a little more excited by the lettuce Danny Thomas is waving in her face.

"Thank God the war started! Maybe he'll enlist."

And who washes walls? Why would anyone send off for this?

Then I discovered . . .