Thursday, October 16, 2008
Exchange Floor Trader Prank
While giving a live report on futures at the Chicago Board of Trade, reporter Steve Cohn is interrupted by an enraged trader asking the age-old question, "Who put this dick on my back?":
Putting a white and neon pink novelty penis on a young trader's back is a gag as old as the very concept of capitalism. As if wearing those lame colorful jackets wasn't bad enough, now they've gotta be on constant 'plastic dick' surveillance too?
As you can see from the screengrab below, that thing was attached nice and high, just above his shoulders. Great technique, but how did he not notice this sooner? And does the guy sound really drunk to anyone else or is it just me?
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tremendous
priceless. file this one in the archive.
fake
fake, and im not lying, this is fake as shit.
lmfao
lmfao
you'd be drunk too...
if you had to watch the market rise and fall everyday
that's not fake, jokes like
that's not fake, jokes like that happen all the time down there, don't talk about it if you don't know. now he might have done that in front of the camera on purpose, but that's still just as funny right?
ya not fake
look at everyones reactions
Ha!
I can't believe the guy reporting could keep a straight face.
Priceless
cheers!
Roar
bunch of f@gs, everybody in that room is a serious loser.
Happens all the time
I use to trade on the P-Coast and it was done all the time. We used paper shark fins and arrows. If it was an arrow everyone would start making Indian noises as the guy walked by.
fake
anyone who thinks not, is not a trader
Awesome
No, he isn't drunk. That's just how they talk in Chicago, but if I were a trader I'd be wasted 24/7 given the events of the past month.
Polocks
Dem Dare Mid-Westerners talk funny, eh. Who out dis dick on my back over here?
This is from ages ago.... the stocks are in fractions.
This is from ages ago.... the stocks are in fractions.
WE KNOW BUDDY !!
IDIOT
So not fake.
I worked on that floor for a couple years. You could catch that sound bite 10 times a week. And to the person who said "fake, anyone who thnks not is not a trader" HHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Have you met a floor trader?
who put this dick on my
who put this dick on my back?
HAHAHAHA
i worked on the floor for 5 years and this is pretty much a daily occurrence.
You
had a dick on your back every day for 5 years?
I worked there...
First off, that guys most likely a desk clerk or clerks for one of the traders, and the dick on his back is called a dickshark. After making the dickshark, you just slip a flat side of the paper/trading card up under the collar of the trading jacket and it'll usually stick until he's tipped off or just notices it on his own.
His wife should be proud
His wife should be proud
dickshark
I use to love that shit, stupid funny shit all the time, you would laugh your ass off everyday!!
Cant view it!
Seems to not be working for me in FF3,
Break videos work not this one.
Exchange Floor Pranks
I’ve worked on a few Exchanges, AMEX, NYMEX and NYSE and this is a daily occurrence. Most of the pranksters on the floor are pretty sharp and smart enough not to get into it while the media is around. We had guys do worst but most of them were fun. Some of the fun pranks included.
1. A box of ticket paper taped to the bottom of your shoe and you walk through the whole exchange and don't realize it until you cross over it about 3 times.
2. Attaching a rubber stress ball to a line of rubber bands hitting someone in the back or in the head and having it come back faster then they turn around to realize what happened.
3. Shredding a ton of paper and putting it in someone's hat, umbrella or coat, or top shirt pocket.
4. Pouring a container of Talcum Powder into someone shirt pocket, coat pocket or Umbrella.
5. Taping a plate with a cup attached to the top of it asking for change.
I could go on and on, but these are some of the floor favorites, or use to be back in the day. And these pranks are done almost to anyone, a clerck, specialist or floor broker.
?
DOH!
Mustard and ketchup packets
Mustard and ketchup packets on the steps of the NASDAQ was my first day hazing. Running full speed up those stairs, to realize I've got condiments on the back of my pants.
And throwing blanks at Rick Santelli when he was reporting from the S+Ps at the Merc.
JUMP!!
Jump, capitalist pig -- the party is over!
Jump, because you do not deserve any bailout, especially with what remains of the taxpayers' money.
Jump, it is only right, as you have looted and plundered the land of your birth without any regard of the consequences for your friends and neighbors or the future of our children.
Jump, you rotten bastards in your three-piece suits, your wingtip shoes, your Rolex watches and your damned suspenders, you who threw good hard-working men with dirt under their fingernails out of work.
Jump, you stinking rats who lied to the American worker, who bribed and corrupted the representatives of the people to send Americas good paying jobs to sweatshops in Mexico, China, to India, leaving in their wake minimum wage jobs while you stuffed your pockets at the expense of your fellow Americans.
Jump, you bastards, who called it business when it was really treason when you sold out your Nation for profit.
Jump, you miserable scum, as you have destroyed the American family, forcing mothers to leave their children with strangers to make ends meet.
Jump, for having sold your fellow human beings into financial slavery, chained to a lifetime of debt without end.
Jump, for making Americas currency all but worthless.
Jump, for throwing families off their farms, for taking away peoples homes, for the stagnating wages.
Jump, you bastards for influencing the foreign policy of America to make war in order for your corporations and banks to seize and control the resources of other nations.
Jump, for you have the blood of the innocent on your hands, murdered in the name of corporate greed.
Jump, you bastards, for helping to give us Bush and Cheney who would turn America into a corporate controlled fascist state.
Jump, you capitalist exploiters of humanity, at least give us, your victims, the satisfaction of seeing you jump, along with all the other Wall St practitioners of soulless greed and exploitation.
Jump!
Apeture Science Center
MAking a note here:
Huge sucsess
Thank you for your opinion
Thank you for your opinion David Lee Roth
fake and a really old video
fake and a really old video
GlADos
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
tgdgd
if you suddenly realized you had a dick on your back, your immediate reaction would be to take it off, not to walk around yelling about it. he probably dramatized it for the camera, but it makes a hilarious video
Too many dicks on wall street
Everyone down there is a dick. The gov't is just as bad by bailing these dicks out. Endless bailouts for zionist banks, yet another infringement on our rights by the gov't. Add it to the ever-growing list of violations:
They violate the 1st Amendment by opening mail, caging demonstrators and banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon, Wikipedia and Facebook.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns during Katrina.
They violate the 4th Amendment by conducting warrant-less wiretaps.
They violate the 5th and 6th Amendment by suspending habeas corpus.
They violate the 8th Amendment by torturing at Gitmo.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting illegal wars without declaration.
Impeach them all (both parties) and save this great country.
Last link (unless Google Books caves to the gov't and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000083883
Stink Bombs
Were big during the 80's on the CBOE floor. And they put the guy that was doing it, in charge of finding out who was doing it:)
hatchet on the back
working on the amex and nyse for years, this was a regular accurance.as a clerk i was able to put together an arrow or hatchet and stick it on your back with out you ever knowing.then you would have about 100 people around you holloring it up..also we did mike dukakis' shoes with talcom powder when he was grabbing the democratic ticket.
shit is real
shit is real
no...i have special ability
no...i have special ability to smell douche from at least 100 feet away..so no, i have never meet a floor trader
Been there done that
Pranks were common place on the floor. We would laugh our asses off! What a great time.
G.R.
LOLz
They should all be forced to wear those after what they have done to the economy. Tar and feathered would be good too
Dr-Gonzo
I have never met a floor
I have never met a floor trader either, and feel that I am probably the better for it. I know...A dick on a back...Hahahaha funny as shit...Hahaha..Maybe that's why we are where we are.
over dere? Dat one over
over dere? Dat one over dere?
He's not drunk
He's got a heavy accent.
Nice!
Chicago is mid-west now?
Chicago is mid-west now?
Real
This is real. I have worked on that floor for 60 years and that prank starts to get a little bit old.
faggot
thats what you are, either that or a broke cunt
REAL!
we used to put spurs on the back of guys shoes or paint someones fingernails with whiteout when the weren't paying attention. And for all you idiots that think out economy sucks b/c of floor traders, go home and kill yourselves. You have no idea how much money traders and brokers have lost the last month. How many people have killed themselves over losing money in their 401k, none, I wish I could say the same about some traders but unforunately I can't and unforunately some have taken their own lives.
Bruhaha
Classic
alright
you can clearly see its fake, just look at the people behind the guy and compare them to the people infront of him
parmesan cheese
At the CME guys used to put Parmesan cheese packets into the trading jackets of other people. The person would wonder what smells until they found the packets of cheese in their pocket. The next stage in the game was when people started cutting open the lapels on someones coat at night. They would put the cheese in the lapel and then staple it shut. The victim would look for packets of cheese and couldn't find anything!
faku
wai ar fokin ok
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