Planespotting: NYSE Tours With Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney and Friends
Between June 17 and 19, the NYSE’s Gulfstream IV flew from Brunswick, GA to Memphis, TN, to Austin, TX. For what, pray tell? We really have no idea but how about this: 'SE's annual summer concert series, which kicked off this month? If that's the case, then we'll continue this random* speculation by saying that NYSE President and COO, Catherine R. Kinney, is (probably) Garth Brooks’s “biggest fan,” while CEO John A. Thain has to have mentioned that he “just loves that Shania Twain, 'cause it rhymes with Thain" on the trading floor, at least once or twice. In exchange for backstage passes to his show, we're betting that Kenny Chesney will be ringing the bell, sometime in late July, early August, max.
*but entirely plausible
Planespotting: Pritzker Takes Our Advice, Is Better, Less Tool-y Man For It
About a week ago—maybe longer, hard to say, our memories are really starting to go—we reported that Matthew Pritzker had traveled to Boca Raton; Brunswick, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia; and White Plains, New York. We postulated that the richest kid in the world was acting like something of a tool, as indicated by his painfully dull, pretty hum drum destinations, and offered that, "Next time we stalk your whereabouts, there'd better be some evidence that you're spending your $500 million unwisely—and that's an order,” providing suggestions* such as 1. Hiding the evidence that he was ever in a hotel room with a dead hooker in Madrid and 2. Chilling in Nambia and adopting a child with Angelina Jolie. Though he did neither, Pritzker's most recent jaunts seem to imply** take note of our suggestion and took his Gulfstream IV to Edinburgh and Vegas, on June 13 and 18, respectively, less than 24 hours after we sent our message through the blogosphere that he should do so. On the Emerald Isle, we're hoping he got hammered/found himself in a compromising position with “The Men in Green,” Ireland’s national men’s rugby team; and in Vegas, we're keeping our fingers crossed-- which always works-- that he took in a Céline Dion show at Caesar’s Palace and got the singer pregnant with her second child. Refuse to marry her/skip out on the child support and you will have made a complete 180 in our (ever so proud) eyes, Matthew-dearest.
*by which we mean we posted them on our site; but it's not like the kid doesn't have a computer/couldn't be a huge fan of that which is Le DealBreaker, you know?
**and by "imply" we mean we're doing that thing where we manipulate statistics to make a point, whether or not it's actually "true"
Comments
Shania hates mayo all right, and she can't eat chicken salad, thats no joke. We gave it to her once, she threw up in the limo - the lady hates chicken salad. So I bring out a bunch of tuna fish sandwiches - she still doesn't believe me - I say, Shania, I'm allergic to mayo - which, by the way, is a lie. Shania still doesn't believe me so I eat two of the sandwiches in front of her to prove it. So she eats one and a half sandwiches, one and a half sandwiches... before she realizes, its chicken salad.
Posted by: Brad Stand | June 20, 2006 12:23 PM
though i doubt their veracity, and wonder what kind of drugs you have to have been on when you wrote them, your planspottings are the best part of my day
Posted by: goldy goldman | June 20, 2006 01:43 PM
Here's where they're going from Brunswick.... www.seaisland.com - its where the last G8 was...
Posted by: taylorhr | June 20, 2006 03:13 PM
As the saying goes, "Interesting, if true."
Don't quite know how to break it to you, but we don't HAVE a Gulfstream. Not even a Piper Cub. Keep up the good detective work! :-)
Posted by: Ray Pellecchia, NYSE Communications | June 20, 2006 03:23 PM
This: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=465QS&cmndfind.x=22&cmndfind.y=5 begs to differ. Scroll down; and if we're going to be sticklers here, you cheapskates only own part of a Gulfstream.
Posted by: Bess Levin | June 20, 2006 03:33 PM
It's totally unfair that they don't let you use the Gulfstream, Ray.
Posted by: John Carney | June 20, 2006 03:43 PM
hey bess! another great post amherst grad. can you do a follow up article for paris hilton's use of the G4? that's hot
Posted by: Matthew | June 20, 2006 05:05 PM
hey bess! another great post amherst grad. can you do a follow up article for paris hilton's use of the G4? that's hot
Posted by: Matthew | June 20, 2006 05:05 PM
Bess -- I obviously read the post way too literally. When you talked about "the NYSE's Gulfstream IV," I thought that meant we actually possessed such a plane. What was I thinking?
And when you said the plane was in Brunswick, Memphis and Austin between June 17-19, I thought those were actual details that merited correction. My bad!
Yes, we are in the NetJets fractional ownership program. I knew that and should have said it in my comment, but wrote it too fast and should have given it more thought. Note to self: post in haste, repent at leisure.
Is this FAA document the sole basis for planespotting? All NetJets participants are assigned a tail number; doesn't mean we use that actual plane; we use whatever they have available. Even at that, there are 10 other companies listed on that document; what made you think it was us? I must be missing something -- I think it's the joke.
For the record, no one from NYSE was on a plane to any of those places during the period you cited. Other than that, the post was perfect.
Re: cheapskates, we'll cop to that. Hope the NYX shareholders are listening.
Posted by: Ray Pellecchia | June 21, 2006 10:25 AM
Love your posts, but please check your geography. Nambia doesn't exist, although Namibia is an authentic African nation. But mainly, Edinburgh is squarely in Scotland between the Firth of Forth, the Highlands, Glasgow, and the Irish Sea before it's in Ireland.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 23, 2006 04:56 AM