TGL is awarded, and retained by, the last trader to receive a significant "gift" - a low-risk client trade that nets a decent profit on their book - thus signifying that said spot monkey has made his money through luck rather than skill. The name is a derivation from the old phrase "falling off a log", meaning something ridiculously easy to do...
There is no set value of a log and TGL is passed on by consensus of the other spot monkeys. As a result, the more that one tries to protest that gifts were actually generated from craft and sweat, the more likely one is to end up with TGL on their desk.
Trywalker, being the young, sensitive, superstitious type, absolutely detests receiving TGL, since he considers it a personal slight on his trading ability, and because Fenerbace once lost a football match within 2 weeks of him earning TGL 5 days in a row. This is bad luck for him, since all the freebies seem to come in his currencies :-)
In reality TGL is a somewhat inconspicuous yellow and black cup cooler. For months I have had the intention of replacing it with a proper piece of tackorama - I imagine a kind of plastic gold log sculpture atop a plinth and plaque - but have no clue where to even begin getting one. I've browsed in the windows of a couple of shops that do trophies, but to be honest they are near the Hauptbahnhof and I have a suspicion that if I wander in asking for "Ein Goldene Baumstamm, bitte," I could end up getting more than I bargained for. Any ideas welcome...
The closest Trywalker will come to winning Olympic gold...
Incidentally, being number 50 today, that makes this the "Golden Post", if not quite the "Golden Blog" ... orangepeel, you might want to start thinking about making space in the fridge for that bottle of Dom ;-)
9 comments:
Never over-complicate a problem - just use a log ..... [tsk - young people nowadays, making life difficult, never listening to the 'oldies' ...... oh well]
What you need is a miniature replica of the Asahi Super Dry building in Tokyo - "the Golden Turd". Perfect! The trophy can then also double as a prize for the person who "knocks out" one of the traps at work...
@DP - We tried using a real log but people kept chucking it on the spot desk fire, that we keep smouldering in the corner of the dealing room in case we need to spitroast anyone...
@orangepeel - that is hilarious :-D ..the only thing is nobody EVER admits to putting a trap out of commission!
SB never ever gets logs,he told me so, so that's why he doesn't believe in the prize.
Trywalker, well he's got log of the century now just by virtue of the people sitting either side of him:)
@ Mr Peel. if one of the traps gets knocked out we have the workers council call a strike, and then the guilty party is forced outside and made to repeatedly cross a street when the red man says not to, resulting in a 4000 Euro fine or jail time. (We have big notices in each trap explaining what loo brushes are for...educational!)
@ the boss. In this day and age of Premiership footballers I would avoid the use of the term 'spitroast'...
Ohhhh is THAT what those signs mean. I thought it said something like "Make as much mess as you like someone will be along in a minute to clear up after you."
at least someone is happy lately ! (schadenfreude exactly suits here ;P ) as he thinks it is a fair competition when trywalker not getting any RUB deals..
RUB, RUB, RUB...
I know the kind of deals you're thinking of trywalker ;-)
Why don't you just get one of Muttley's super-dried offerings and coat it with gold paint (that should also contain any kind of stench)... and mount it on a little wooden base... and there you have it - a real golden log!
hahaha... with the greatest due respect, that is an idea only an Australian could come up with bambam :-))
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