On the LSE there was a prank that happened periodically. They'd get a long strip of toilet paper and pin it to the back of a new guys jacket. Then someone would set fire to it and the whole place would erupt to calls or 'Fire! Fire! Don't Panic - Don'Panic!' in the Dads Army guys voice.
On the LIFFE floor there were some crackers. Fairly often you'd get visitors on the gantry over looking the floor, often one of the big banks would bring a group of interns or new joiners and show them the last open outcry floor in London.
If there was a couple of hotties in the fray activity on the floor would slow to a stop then there quietly at first but growing louder there'd be a chant of 'beaver.... beaver...beaver....BEAVER...BEAVER'
It got so bad they made it a banned word, you'd get fined for saying it.
So the traders got round that..... One side of the floor would shout B and the other side of the floor would reply VER!
Those prank stories remind me of times with friends I hadn't thought about in a long time! Thanks for bringing back some great memories and Happy Thanksgiving!
Great insight and fun...brings me back to my college rugby days and the spoons prank. Always remember this week "it ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving."
Vibrator tester! Original JD, lol. I was in the Chi Psi fraternity at the University of Oregon, circa 1992. If you want to hear prank stories, we'll have to sit down on an unrecorded line over a beer one day! Lol.........good times. Love it guys. "See you" next week!
Great market analysis and awesome prank stories.
On the LSE there was a prank that happened periodically. They'd get a long strip of toilet paper and pin it to the back of a new guys jacket. Then someone would set fire to it and the whole place would erupt to calls or 'Fire! Fire! Don't Panic - Don'Panic!' in the Dads Army guys voice.
On the LIFFE floor there were some crackers. Fairly often you'd get visitors on the gantry over looking the floor, often one of the big banks would bring a group of interns or new joiners and show them the last open outcry floor in London.
If there was a couple of hotties in the fray activity on the floor would slow to a stop then there quietly at first but growing louder there'd be a chant of 'beaver.... beaver...beaver....BEAVER...BEAVER'
It got so bad they made it a banned word, you'd get fined for saying it.
So the traders got round that..... One side of the floor would shout B and the other side of the floor would reply VER!
That’s epic thanks for sharing
Happy thanksgiving chaps, from across the pond.
Happy Thanksgiving, Rich.
Those prank stories remind me of times with friends I hadn't thought about in a long time! Thanks for bringing back some great memories and Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving Paul.
Great insight and fun...brings me back to my college rugby days and the spoons prank. Always remember this week "it ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving."
I am going to borrow the tin foil idea.
Was Tony’s mic positioned specifically to tell the punchline of the Atomic Sit-up prank?
Thank you for noticing
Happy Thanksgiving all, here in Australia the common get request in tradie land is to go to the shop and get a;
- can of striped paint
- a left handed screwdriver/car blinker bulb
- a long wait
Stiped paint!
Vibrator tester! Original JD, lol. I was in the Chi Psi fraternity at the University of Oregon, circa 1992. If you want to hear prank stories, we'll have to sit down on an unrecorded line over a beer one day! Lol.........good times. Love it guys. "See you" next week!