Strangest Bell Ringers At The New York Stock Exchange (PHOTOS)

Snowboarder Shaun White took his latest Olympic gold medal to Wall Street this week, where he rang the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.

Since 1995, the NYSE has invited notable people to ring its opening and closing bells. Most often, this means business leaders preening for a blatant photo op. But celebrities -- actors, musicians, athletes, politicians -- are also sometimes asked.

And, lately, the choices have been getting increasingly bizarre. (Take, for example, yesterday, when the Aflac duck rang the bell.) We compiled a list of the strangest bell ringers in NYSE history. Check it out:

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[GerryS]

09:02 PM on 03/01/2010

jeez, I thought the women were froma new franchise company called Hookerz for All-----

[FreedomCorpse]

05:51 PM on 03/01/2010

Don't forget the clowns that rang the bell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOXhxa0jrQ

Its all kind of John Gacy like when it comes to wall street

[Str8flush]

02:48 PM on 03/01/2010

Jessica White now thats a bell worth ringing

[sborsher]

11:04 AM on 02/28/2010

Strange on Wall Street? I particularly liked when Michael Phelps rang it open stoned to the gills.

[Balzac]

10:26 PM on 02/27/2010

If I were a child with a terminal illness and I was asked what would I wish for, I might wish to tongue Jessica White's belly button.

[tuberider]

07:24 PM on 02/27/2010

God knows the devil himself has rung THAT bell a few times. I like the one in Philly.

[hswanson2]

08:05 PM on 02/26/2010

Dee Snider in 2009 - he couldn't get a gig playing a high school prom

[rmutt1917]

07:05 PM on 02/26/2010

Wow, celebrated acolyte of The Great Beast Jimmy Page didn't get to ring the bell? I guess he was just flakking for Warner's...Oh, well, we'll always have the Olympics float.

[Tanker10a]

06:44 PM on 02/26/2010

What happened to Brooklyn?

[SwingingFromCenter]

06:05 PM on 02/26/2010

The Stock Exchange has always had 2 things:

1) A sense of humour about ringing the bell
2) Perfectly open to let a company have someone ring it if the company pays it enough. I made it a part of a contract I did a number of years back to let me ring the bell for a company that was getting ready for its IPO launch (and thus would have been the leader of the day on the market). Sort of anticlimatic, but had a lot of fun on the buildup to it.

[Balzac]

05:56 PM on 02/26/2010

Genevieve Morton looks surprised by something. Did somebody goose her right before the picture was taken?

[tallturtle]

05:48 PM on 02/26/2010

Why isn't Laura Ingraham on that list?

[Maria Bemmer]

05:31 PM on 02/26/2010

WOW..who is Jessica White?

[noladeb]

05:59 PM on 02/26/2010

Clearly a model since the caption states that....and also the girlfriend of Sean Penn.

[BrwnSknGurl4]

05:14 PM on 02/26/2010

Have any of you even heard of Jessica White before seeing this??!! Go get into a cold shower, guys :)

[Hobzer]

03:53 PM on 02/26/2010

Spongebob seemed normal, everyone else was strange....