I was told to remember this saying many years ago.... Straight cue - Straight through
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Yes but straight and straight through to what?
This is part of the misconceptions and undefined phrases in pool that drive me nuts.
I am of sound mind despite my nonsensical ramblings. That's why I think Stan Shuffett and a very few others got some of the concepts in this game RIGHT.
And then guys like Tucker who says parallel English sqwirts the cueball too much. This is wildy incorrect and succumbtion of a "thing" and not a event. This is ass backwards.
Straight and straight through in reality is trying to Robin Hood the ass of a arrow in a bullseye, except on a two dimensional plain, but still very difficult. This is why redirects and offsets are a realistic and reasonable solution to this dilemma.
A better term to start addressing the reality of what straight and straight through, would be to say, direct the back or butt of the cue to the target, because that is what truly needs to happen to make the statement true.
Now the door to the concept is open to interpretation. I should be commended for this but im sure I'll get ridiculed at some level and Im not or never looking for accolades and I prefer to be criticized, but when reality is criticized, then the war is on and im never going to back down to that.
People simply like to criticize the source. If the source is a screwball, then surely your house is not on fire if he says so.
I AM CHRIST.
Ohhhhh its on now boys and girls. Paul and his rod of correction will to come! Will themselves be damned??!!! Shall you make thy betrayal to reality a clear case???!!
Damn that eye'n eye to live in poverty and SQWALL'AHW