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Also, the original reference is "series of tubes" if that's the illusion they're trying to make.

Allusion.

Is the accepted convention that in online communication literal grammar corrections should start with an asterisk or at least be surrounded by quotes.

I know how silly this is, but now you see what happens when you get too focused in grammatical mistakes.

See Muphry's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law

Illusion/allusion isn't a grammatical mistake. They're too words that mean different things, but which are very similar syntactically (you can swap between them in a sentence and get two valid sentences which mean entirely different things).

This can be a pernicious source of errors of communication. It is good to point it out.

"Two" words.

Sorry.

Didn't know that, thanks. Similar to effect/affect.

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