[trm]

My boss told me another one today. He used to trade on the LIFFE floor but may have been on another at this time. The queen came to visit and everyone had been told to be on their best behavior or they'd risk being banned altogether. So all practical jokes were off on that day. I'm not sure which pit he was in but at the time it was trading "double 0s". All the traders were furiously making the hand signal for the product trading at double 0's, which apparently looks like the hand gesture for calling someone a wan*ker. Doing so as the queen walked past above.

[ProSpreads]

Originally Posted by trm

My boss told me another one today. He used to trade on the LIFFE floor but may have been on another at this time. The queen came to visit and everyone had been told to be on their best behavior or they'd risk being banned altogether. So all practical jokes were off on that day. I'm not sure which pit he was in but at the time it was trading "double 0s". All the traders were furiously making the hand signal for the product trading at double 0's, which apparently looks like the hand gesture for calling someone a wan*ker. Doing so as the queen walked past above.

Very late on this and has been said before that those were the days .!
There were some great characters down there that comes with some great stories, anyone on here meet up for christmas in the city ( Lamb ).

[trm]

Originally Posted by ProSpreads

Very late on this and has been said before that those were the days .!
There were some great characters down there that comes with some great stories, anyone on here meet up for christmas in the city ( Lamb ).

Prospreads...! Small world, your office is next to ours in Leisure Island

[takeum]

Tony Blair comes onto the Liffe floor with eight or more African commonwealth nations dignitaries all dressed up in their national costumes ...as he is walking past the Sterling pit ,JAG taps him on the Shoulder and says very loudly "Oi tony ...who ordered the minicabs ?"

I think it was a 2k fine but almost everyone in the Sterling pit peeled off a 50quid note and threw it into the middle of the pit to help pay the fine !
funny as **** !

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Anybody here from the IPE? Pre ICE...

Story from when the twin towers went down and a bunch of traders were incidentally flying to the US to try and get on the nymex floor. Obviously things were all up in the air and I think they may have landed in Canada. Anyway, nothing could be done so I think they just had a jolly up. Hired a car and the driver had buttons on the steering wheel to change the radio etc. Passenger in the back (I'll leave his name out) said 'fark, how did you change the radio'? Driver informs him that its voice activated. The passenger is amazed and starts shouting numbers at the radio. "108" he screams and the radio starts to change stations. Well, after a ribbing in the car, and coming back to london on the floor, everybody traded in lots of 108. You'd sell him 100 and then say, 'oh hang on, can you make it 108'? Then a chant of '108, 108 108...108, 108 ,108' would be heard.

[openoutcry]

oops...

Greenpeace hippies get asses kicked by British oil traders

[p74]

Anyone recall the story about batesy (I am sure it was him) and the Welsh bird he pulled who had alopechia?

[MorningJacket]

Didn't read the entire thread so not sure if this was already posted.

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