Funniest thing ever seen at a prop firm
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Anyone from the Chicago floors remember "bag of bucks"?
about the lawsuit, i dont know. i cant imagine he's doing anywhere close to what he used to make on "calls" he got at PTJP.
I was in IBM years ago, which was right across from the OEX pit. On slow days, you'd hear howls of delight as they started "bag of bucks" in the massive OEX pit. People dancing, having spasms, hooting like monkeys. Just to win a bag with 150 dollar bills in it. I could understand it though. You were famous for a week if you won it. I'll bet there were guys who made, maybe $30,000, on a specific day, go home, forget the profit, and tell the wife, "I FINALLY WON BAG OF BUCKS."
I participated in many a bag o bucks in the SPX and the OEX without winning a damn cent. The girl clerk/runner that collected the $ usually walked away with 10% or so. I remember one time a girl drew her boss's name form the bag and there was nearly a riot....
Other CBOE fun:
Pie in the face on birthdays
Danny drinking a case of beer in less then 2 hours at the Ceres
Gumshoe, Sharkfin, Spurs, Tails
Waving at hot girls in the visitors gallery and then bringing them on the floor.....
Other CBOE fun:
Pie in the face on birthdays
Danny drinking a case of beer in less then 2 hours at the Ceres
Gumshoe, Sharkfin, Spurs, Tails
Waving at hot girls in the visitors gallery and then bringing them on the floor.....
I vaguely remember something about a clerk at the Merc selling squares for the Superbowl back around 1999 or 2000. He had been doing this for years and the pot was getting bigger each year. In 99 or 2000, the pot was big, something like $20,000(could have been $70,000, I can't remember exactly). The guy took the money and skipped town and nobody has heard from him since.
I think those were topless waitresses for some charity golf outing or something. I remember the chaos too 
I remember there being an execution in the electric chair, when they weren't common. I forget the poor guy's name, but say it was John Doe. I'm standing there on the floor sorting my trading cards before the opening bell, and hear the young woman on the PA, "Paging John Doe to General Electric, John Doe to General Electric."