Not a day goes by when we don’t feel an overwhelming sense of loss and emptiness over the fact that we no longer live in a world in which Lehman Brothers exists. We miss the palpable sexual tension between Erin Callan and David Einhorn. We miss Dick Fuld, entering his office on the 31st floor by rappelling down the side of the building using his dick as rope. We miss Bella, more than you’ll ever know. But mostly, we miss knowing that there’s a bank trading floor where at any given time, we could witness a bunch of employees playing a game in which they temporarily paralyze each other via electric shock (this sort of stuff goes on in Stamford, of course, but it’s not a game, and they don’t tase each other with a “gun”). Luckily, the memory as been preserved by former Citadel partner-cum--filmmaker Julio DePietro.
Another striking scene features a twisted version of musical chairs, where the last player to buzz in with a joystick when the music stops gets an electric shock. DePietro said he heard the game was so popular on Wall Street that it once shut down the trading floor at Lehman Brothers for an afternoon.
To make it more realistic, the four actors playing the game asked for an actual shock during their close-ups.
“The performances look real because they are,” DePietro said. “They’re in real pain.”
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Einhorn is Fuld.
Fuld is Einhorn.
“The performances look real because they are,” DePietro said. “They’re in real pain.”
You faggots think it’s so easy.
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-Gorilla Man-Boy
They don’t know real pain!
-RBSer
ha, i remember that. A guy in DCM named Dale once stuck it up his but (pants on) in ’99. he was in pain. or pleasure?
Sometimes, in public, I taser myself, just to show everybody how tough dis jabroni pony is.
-C. Gizzle
@4 ain’t that the truth.
-brother in arms
Wait “a twisted version?”
They told me that’s how everybody plays musical chairs.
-another former Lehman quant
These guys like to shock each other too:
http://gawker.com/5474123/the-weird-weirdos-accused-of-murdering-robert-wone?skyline=true&s=i
R.I.P. Bella :’ (
you already know too much.
-PJ
Wait, I have a joystick for them to play with. The effects have been, too, described as “electrifying”.
What’s this reference to?
“this sort of stuff goes on in Stamford, of course, but it’s not a game, and they don’t tase each other with a ‘gun’”
@1
Funniest comment in a LONG time
cheers
Best piece of writing..
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