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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (11372)	11/3/2000 8:54:59 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Nope in Chicago at the time working at the Merc. live hog pit. I was the young 19 year old white Anglo, among the bagel eating crowd. I did have long hair, I miss it too. LOL. There was this particularly aggressive female traders after me. I think they were trading me between themselves and didn't like the one that ended up with the win. <g> When I left a lot of the traders got busted for drugs, of which I had no idea was happening at the time, but when I looked back on it, they where all mad men with crazed looks in their eyes. Trading cars and girlfriends for the weekend after losing and winning millions in the blink of an eye, what a wild bunch of people. You could really tell the guys that had it together, sitting around calm while others where sweating up a storm, they would have eyes for the whole market and would trade from pit to pit, with one hand signal, impressive individuals. I discovered a lot about people there under stress and what it does to them. Greg