Fantastic News
We just received word that the NYMEX trading floors are now broadcasting Fox Business News. That’s right people—some genius (and we say that completely sincerely, you know how we feel about FBN) over at 1 North End Avenue decided that programming included but not limited to interviews with life-sized M&Ms, drunk driving PSAs by shitfaced club DJs, the business wisdom of sock puppets, Boyz II Men and hos, hos, hos was not only unintentional hilarity but news you can use. Whether that means employees will be executing trades based on the trenchant market insights of a piece of corn syrup-and-dye-coated candy or making more efficient use of their time by jerking off at their desks to Jenna Lee instead of wasting precious moments in the handicapped bathroom is unclear. Doesn’t really matter—the important thing is that the message is being spread. It’s only a matter of time before everyone else follows in suit (hazarding a guess, I would say GS’s prop desk will be next). Which will make the airing of YOUR winning entry in the commercial contest that much more significant. Now, it has the potential to be seen by 8,000 people. Maybe even ten.
Comments
yay Jenna Lee i love you!
Posted by: Anonymous | February 13, 2008 11:43 AM
"Never in the history of the world have so many, who know so little, made so much."
-Anonymous NYMEX trader describing the fortunes of floor traders
Posted by: SwingfortheFences | February 13, 2008 12:19 PM
http://www.someecards.com/upload/somewhat_topical/im_not_worried_about_the_economy.html
Posted by: HAM'05 | February 13, 2008 12:23 PM
I should pop in a porno flick for our trading floor... Maybe at 2pm..
Now, which one should it be? Gay or Straight?
-mrp
Posted by: mrpink | February 13, 2008 12:28 PM
mp: gay of course. My vote would be something from Corbin Fisher. Totally fitting. For the uninitiated, CF features clean cut masculine jock types, early 20s. Guys that are indistinguishable from the typical newbie traders and analysts that are swirling around here all the time.
Posted by: GAnalYst | February 13, 2008 12:35 PM
i will watch for the selloff at 2 pm...what's traded on that floor?
Posted by: Anonymous | February 13, 2008 12:40 PM
FBN is as close to porn as we can get, CNBC did have Marissa Miller yesterday though...
BTW, we don't get Bloomberg on the cable networks.
Posted by: 1NorthEndTrader | February 13, 2008 12:46 PM
Johnny McCain is advertising on DB? He really is more nuts than I thought... What's the matter Johnny - couldn't afford the $900 to promo on FBN?
Posted by: Poll this Johnny! | February 13, 2008 12:52 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbgephMX1ag
Posted by: Anonymous | February 13, 2008 01:05 PM
At the CBOT, they watch Jerry Springer in the rough rice and metals pits. Sometimes in the oil and meal options pit, too.
Posted by: JO | February 13, 2008 01:28 PM
would have thought the oil and meat guys are gasparino fans
(because he's a guido)
Posted by: Anonymous | February 13, 2008 01:37 PM
I would sell every one of you into white slavery for 10 minutes with Jenna Lee.
Posted by: Bugs Meany | February 13, 2008 01:43 PM
i could do it in 5
Posted by: Anonymous | February 13, 2008 02:47 PM
who's hotter Jenna Lee or Erin Burnett?
Posted by: cnn | February 13, 2008 05:35 PM
This is all I know...that Erin is well way hotter than Sue Herrera.
Damn it!FBN is not available yet in SWFlorida's Comcast so I don't know if Jenna Lee is hotter than FL's weather.
Posted by: Floridian | February 13, 2008 05:41 PM
what about this: who's hotter Cramer or Gasparino?
Posted by: milan | February 13, 2008 05:44 PM
Jenna Lee is the Great American Jerk-off Fantasy. She probably tastes like apple pie. Jenna Lee is Why They Hate Us.
Erin had this bad spell recently where her stylist or makeup artist must've gone on vacation. She eventually went back to looking great but the damage was done. And there's really no escaping the fact that she is totally flat-chested.
Posted by: Bugs Meany | February 13, 2008 07:34 PM