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Blacksail said:
I remember a phone call to the TNT booth concerning a young man called 'Jim' we all called him Jim or Jimmy the only person to call him James was his Mum. Anyway, a line starts flashing in the booth with the caller asking to speak to 'James' I recall the converstaion with 'Blades' went as follows;
Caller: May I speak with James please?
Blades: Sorry Mrs. T, he hasn't arrived yet, is there a problem?
Mrs. T: Yes dear, a small problem, there's a black woman in James's bedroom and she says she wont leave until she gets paid.
Blades: Oh!!!
Mrs. T: Yes dear, Oh! Can you ask James to call home as soon as he arrives please?
Blades: Sure will Mrs T. Then putting the phone down calls all around to relay the story. Whereupon Jimmy got a rousing reception on his arrival to the floor!!! Deservedly so in my opinion.......
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hahahaha gold....the legendary JLT ......do you remember his party trick with his rolex? or the day he took viagra in the trading pit....hahahaha
 
re: The Arcade Traders "Pit Stories" Thread

zammo said:
What about the Tulletts runners first day at work then all the traders took him out to get him trashed and he was left to sleep in a bunker on the 18th hole at a golf course in Essex. He was woken up by the golfers out playing an early round......
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i remeber that well it was me hahahaha
 
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.
 
trm said:
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.
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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 said:
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 ).
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Prospreads...! Small world, your office is next to ours in Leisure Island
 
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 **** !:cheesy:
 
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.
 
Anyone recall the story about batesy (I am sure it was him) and the Welsh bird he pulled who had alopechia?
 
takeum said:
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 **** !:cheesy:
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I have just cried till it hurt reading this one. I can just see JAG's leary grin and madlook in his eyes. top bloke.
 
charliechan said:
yeah - but when you are in an environment that sometimes gives the opportunity to make several thousand pounds in 10 minutes or there abouts, you start to realise that what other people think of you is pointless. it often comes from jealousy. after all, these 'funny people' from outside have often worked under this dumb belief that success comes from qualifications and working all the hours under the sun to 'please the boss' and other rat race stuff. talk about a wasted life! whos the d!ckhead now?

life is too short.

lift up your skirt, grab your balls AND MAKE SOME MONEY!!! - oh - and have some fun!!

yours,

captain sensible.
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Fantastic thread, brilliant assessment !

Any one else got any stories ?
 
whitecroft

This goes back to the Stock Market floor before most of the traders reading this were born .Thought it might be interesting to relate a bit of the ' good old days'.

1959, I had been made up as a blue button, a valued job . Into my third day I set off to gather prices from the jobbers sited at their various stands. Speed was of essence - to impress the senior dealer- and I collided with a figure who actually backed into my path. I carried on after I mumbled an apology to suddenly hear a shout of' BOY', I hurried on to once again hear' BOY'. I looked up and it seemed the entire floor membership was staring at me. I looked around to hear a loud voice,' YES, YOU BOY'. Embarrassed , I retraced my steps to be asked 'Why did you bang into me BOY'. Mumble, mumble, sorry. Who is your senior dealer, I divulged the name,very worried by now as it seemed like I might not see out my first week on the floor. Further admonishment and told to report to my senior dealer after I had completed my assignment.
As I continued my journey the faces all around were grinning and chuckling.

I was soon to find out that the gentleman who backed into me was a Mr Percy Duke an ex army officer, a tall very erect figure , who always stood a few feet from his stand with jobbers book in hand. I was informed that this was his favourite ploy for the indoctrination of new blue buttons. Thanks Percy for the humiliation !
Of course from that date on I became one of the floor occupants who smiled when BOY was heard over the market din.
As I said at the start they genuinely were 'good old days'.
 
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