Another favorite character I just had to say “hi” to….<\/p>\n
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JANE<\/p>\n
This week, disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to all eleven felony counts brought against him by the government. With a special Weekend Update editorial commentary here’s Weekend Update correspondent Ms. Emily Litella.<\/p>\n
EMILY<\/p>\n
Thank you very much Jane.\u00a0 What’s all this commotion about Bernie Madoff, and his Fonzie scheme?\u00a0 We could use a good Fonzie scheme in these trying times! Fonzie’s schemes were always very clever and people would tune in by the thousands to see what schemes that nice young man could come up with. Fonzie Schemes always ended happily at the end of each episode,or sometimes it would take two episodes, but they always worked out by the end of that second part. Sometimes it looked like his schemes wouldn’t work, like that time he wanted to jump that man eating shark, and everyone told him he was stupid to try and jump that shark, and even his best friend Richie told him not to, but Fonzie knew it would work, and he jumped that shark, and he made it all the way over safely and everyone was so happy.\u00a0 And this Mr. Madoff fellow looks an awful lot like the actor who played Arthur Fonzarelli looks today.\u00a0 They both have those sort of big noses, and flowing silver hair.\u00a0 If anyone can pull off a Fonzie scheme, it’s going to be someone who looks like the real Fonzie.\u00a0 So maybe if we give him a chance..<\/p>\n
JANE<\/p>\n
Ms. Litella, it was a Ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n
EMILY<\/p>\n
Excuse me?<\/p>\n
JANE<\/p>\n
Ponzi...Ponzi scheme, not a Fonzie Scheme.\u00a0 It’s an illegal financial scheme that takes money from people without ever giving any back.<\/p>\n
EMILY<\/p>\n
Oh...well that’s different. Never mind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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