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To: Greg Keeler who wrote (3604)	8/25/1999 11:44:00 PM
From: Gary M. Reed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17683

absolutely...let's talk about Stuart...(sorry SteveG) He is CLASSIC!!! I mean, if I was CEO of Ameritrade (which, sadly for me, I'm not) I would pay the Actor Formerly Known As Stuart whatever it took to appear on Squawk. But, as a promo play, I would also have Mr. P on the set as well, along with the old hag who claims that "that kid is sick...VERY sick..." However, I would keep the mumbling about the copy machine that Stuart utters (while walking down the hall with Mr. P) a mystery... There are several possibilities/angles to this commercial for a follow-up. You could have the old hag trying to log-on to the AARP website, and she begrudgingly asks Stuart for help in obtaining the AARP URL...he says "let's light this candle..." as he unknowingly betroths more of his future income to Medicare and Medicaid payments...that would be ironic, actually. Especially while the old hag is getting a trading discount by logging in with an AARP discount. Several comedic possibilities, Ameritrade just needs to take the ball and run with it. And, in a perfect world, SteveG could be a "conformity consultant," where he could ensure that the proper mix of entitlement recipients were on camera. He could be there to show "the empowered" that entitlement recipients were justly due. After all, we would need the commercial to be politically correct. Otherwise, people like SteveG would cry foul.