Curly Howard aka FL

Rich93

Rich93

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When I checked about an hour ago I saw that Curly Howard had made 64 posts in a day. Bingo - he had to be that person whose name we may not mention, having the initials FL.

Here's some proof. On a post on another pool forum, FL had these paragraphs as an example of something or other:

Willie Hoppe one time began to lock up and could not pull the trigger on the Masse. He would get over the shot and stroke it 50 times and could not fire. He would pull off the shot, come back up and stroke 50 times and lock up again. He finally had to go to a shrink on the problem that made him stop playing for 3 months while he worked on his head during his rest.
This is what the mind can do to you in pool, totally cripple and disable you or allow you to play perfect where you cannot miss.

Sergio Garcia got that way recently and would get over a shot and waggle 50 times; he was driving the people in the NBC trailer totally insane and costing the networks a fortune in air time. He just could not let the shot go. They had to haul his butt off to a shrink also. People at the very top of sports flat lock up, so don’t be too hard on your self when it happens to you as well.


In a post in the Danny Basavich thread, here's Curly Howard:

Hoppe in the late 20's would get into spells, where he would start stroking, over and over, and just kept stroking, and could not pull the trigger. He left the game, did some serious time with a shrink, and cured his problem.

Sergio Garcia a few years ago, would get over a golf shot, and waggle for 2 minutes, and its prime weekend time, and the guys in the truck, are going nuts yelling, hit the damn shot. Somebody got to him, and cured him of it. So its just not a pool problem.

I went to this trouble because his slander against Jay Helfert was outrageous. I'm sure more detective work would turn up other examples but the above is sufficient in my opinion. I haven't paid enough attention to PocketPoint to have an opinion on him.
 
Rich93 said:
When I checked about an hour ago I saw that Curly Howard had made 64 posts in a day. Bingo - he had to be that person whose name we may not mention, having the initials FL.

Here's some proof. On a post on another pool forum, FL had these paragraphs as an example of something or other:

Willie Hoppe one time began to lock up and could not pull the trigger on the Masse. He would get over the shot and stroke it 50 times and could not fire. He would pull off the shot, come back up and stroke 50 times and lock up again. He finally had to go to a shrink on the problem that made him stop playing for 3 months while he worked on his head during his rest.
This is what the mind can do to you in pool, totally cripple and disable you or allow you to play perfect where you cannot miss.

Sergio Garcia got that way recently and would get over a shot and waggle 50 times; he was driving the people in the NBC trailer totally insane and costing the networks a fortune in air time. He just could not let the shot go. They had to haul his butt off to a shrink also. People at the very top of sports flat lock up, so don’t be too hard on your self when it happens to you as well.


In a post in the Danny Basavich thread, here's Curly Howard:

Hoppe in the late 20's would get into spells, where he would start stroking, over and over, and just kept stroking, and could not pull the trigger. He left the game, did some serious time with a shrink, and cured his problem.

Sergio Garcia a few years ago, would get over a golf shot, and waggle for 2 minutes, and its prime weekend time, and the guys in the truck, are going nuts yelling, hit the damn shot. Somebody got to him, and cured him of it. So its just not a pool problem.

I went to this trouble because his slander against Jay Helfert was outrageous. I'm sure more detective work would turn up other examples but the above is sufficient in my opinion. I haven't paid enough attention to PocketPoint to have an opinion on him.
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Now that makes sense. Add their hatred of kamui chalk and refusal to identify themselves.....makes perfect sense
 
Rich93 said:
When I checked about an hour ago I saw that Curly Howard had made 64 posts in a day. Bingo - he had to be that person whose name we may not mention, having the initials FL.

Here's some proof. On a post on another pool forum, FL had these paragraphs as an example of something or other:

Willie Hoppe one time began to lock up and could not pull the trigger on the Masse. He would get over the shot and stroke it 50 times and could not fire. He would pull off the shot, come back up and stroke 50 times and lock up again. He finally had to go to a shrink on the problem that made him stop playing for 3 months while he worked on his head during his rest.
This is what the mind can do to you in pool, totally cripple and disable you or allow you to play perfect where you cannot miss.

Sergio Garcia got that way recently and would get over a shot and waggle 50 times; he was driving the people in the NBC trailer totally insane and costing the networks a fortune in air time. He just could not let the shot go. They had to haul his butt off to a shrink also. People at the very top of sports flat lock up, so don’t be too hard on your self when it happens to you as well.


In a post in the Danny Basavich thread, here's Curly Howard:

Hoppe in the late 20's would get into spells, where he would start stroking, over and over, and just kept stroking, and could not pull the trigger. He left the game, did some serious time with a shrink, and cured his problem.

Sergio Garcia a few years ago, would get over a golf shot, and waggle for 2 minutes, and its prime weekend time, and the guys in the truck, are going nuts yelling, hit the damn shot. Somebody got to him, and cured him of it. So its just not a pool problem.

I went to this trouble because his slander against Jay Helfert was outrageous. I'm sure more detective work would turn up other examples but the above is sufficient in my opinion. I haven't paid enough attention to PocketPoint to have an opinion on him.
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I suspected the same thing when he brought up my name in the same thread - which fell in line with some comments he made on FB a few days ago.
 
At this point it doesn't matter Rich, the Curly one has been banned again!!:D
 
He was a pain in the neck from a few years ago. His name is:

F = F'n idiot
A = hole
S = Stupid
T = Turd

L = Loser
A = hole again
R = Rude
R = Rude again
Y = Yikes! When you saw his post.
 
Same here

Blue Hog ridr said:
OK, I'm out of the loop, who is FL, other than a model number for a Harley?
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I'm with you Blue Hog ridr. I know that PP stands for Pocketpoint or persistent pain (same thing), but FB and FL. Come on guys, mix in a few more letters.
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
OK, I'm out of the loop, who is FL, other than a model number for a Harley?
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Somebody like Lou Figueroa could tell this much better than me. The internet newsgroup, rec.sport.billiard, abbreviated RSB, is an unmoderated newsgroup that began sometime in the early 90's, I'm guessing. A lot of terrific discussions took place there on the art and science of pool by contributors like Bob Jewett, Ron Shepard, Mike Page, Lou, and lots of others, most of whom have migrated to AZB. FL (I'm not sure I should mention his name) got into many, many arguments which were quite nasty. He would post under many different usernames and, judging by the volume, did little else in his life besides typing away at his personal enemies list, which was long and distinguished.

The outstanding characteristics of his posts were nastiness and know-it-all-ism, just like Curly Howard. FL holds himself out as an instructor and trick shot artist. I won't say that he never posted anything helpful, but the number of any such good posts were vastly outnumbered by his nasty ones. I should consult a thesaurus to find a synonym for nasty since I've used it so many times already, but that's the only word that comes to me when I think of FL's contributions to RSB.
 
Ah, Fast Larry, thats a name I'm a bit familiar with. Just heading off for a night shift and my brain hasn't totally come on line yet.
Thanks.
 
Rich93 said:
When I checked about an hour ago I saw that Curly Howard had made 64 posts in a day. Bingo - he had to be that person whose name we may not mention, having the initials FL.

Here's some proof. On a post on another pool forum, FL had these paragraphs as an example of something or other:

Willie Hoppe one time began to lock up and could not pull the trigger on the Masse. He would get over the shot and stroke it 50 times and could not fire. He would pull off the shot, come back up and stroke 50 times and lock up again. He finally had to go to a shrink on the problem that made him stop playing for 3 months while he worked on his head during his rest.
This is what the mind can do to you in pool, totally cripple and disable you or allow you to play perfect where you cannot miss.

Sergio Garcia got that way recently and would get over a shot and waggle 50 times; he was driving the people in the NBC trailer totally insane and costing the networks a fortune in air time. He just could not let the shot go. They had to haul his butt off to a shrink also. People at the very top of sports flat lock up, so don’t be too hard on your self when it happens to you as well.


In a post in the Danny Basavich thread, here's Curly Howard:

Hoppe in the late 20's would get into spells, where he would start stroking, over and over, and just kept stroking, and could not pull the trigger. He left the game, did some serious time with a shrink, and cured his problem.

Sergio Garcia a few years ago, would get over a golf shot, and waggle for 2 minutes, and its prime weekend time, and the guys in the truck, are going nuts yelling, hit the damn shot. Somebody got to him, and cured him of it. So its just not a pool problem.

I went to this trouble because his slander against Jay Helfert was outrageous. I'm sure more detective work would turn up other examples but the above is sufficient in my opinion. I haven't paid enough attention to PocketPoint to have an opinion on him.
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WOW..this is more evidence than they have on Casey Anthony! I hope she burns, by the way.
 
Rich93 said:
Somebody like Lou Figueroa could tell this much better than me. The internet newsgroup, rec.sport.billiard, abbreviated RSB, is an unmoderated newsgroup that began sometime in the early 90's, I'm guessing. A lot of terrific discussions took place there on the art and science of pool by contributors like Bob Jewett, Ron Shepard, Mike Page, Lou, and lots of others, most of whom have migrated to AZB. FL (I'm not sure I should mention his name) got into many, many arguments which were quite nasty. He would post under many different usernames and, judging by the volume, did little else in his life besides typing away at his personal enemies list, which was long and distinguished.

The outstanding characteristics of his posts were nastiness and know-it-all-ism, just like Curly Howard. FL holds himself out as an instructor and trick shot artist. I won't say that he never posted anything helpful, but the number of any such good posts were vastly outnumbered by his nasty ones. I should consult a thesaurus to find a synonym for nasty since I've used it so many times already, but that's the only word that comes to me when I think of FL's contributions to RSB.
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I really hate to give him any publicity whatsoever, but in brief, several years ago FL was a bane to a number of boards, flooding them with endless tirades against the regulars.

Usually his ID would be a variation on his own name, or an Asian slur like "bonzaiblackbellyjap" or "wonhunglowchink." Occasionally he'd use a mob theme like, "anthonygambinowop" or "vitocoleonewop." Or, he'd display his homophobia with something like, "ericdanewjoyzeeferriusa." He'd have dozens of these identities and would swamp the boards with his rants on a daily basis. The problem got worse when a couple of posters decided to take him on and attacked him, post for post, with their own set of identifies. And that's really when it became too much for most of the regulars to keep up with all the message filtering required to cut down on the noise.

RSB was a great site. There was no moderation and your ideas stood or failed on their merits and not by how many reps points you had or how many "friends" you could rally to your defense. IOW, you couldn't go crying to a mod if you said something stupid and got taken to task for it. Your skin got thick and you developed internet discussion "skills" or you stayed out of the kitchen :-) Many of the pool concepts we take for granted today were originally hashed out on RSB by the folks Rich mentioned. It was great while it lasted.

Lou Figueroa
 
Behold the power.

Funny stuff.

Have fun reading it, Fats Larry. You are not equipped for social interaction...

Dogs are wonderful companions.
 
I didn't put two & two together put just being negative was bad enough

manwon said:
At this point it doesn't matter Rich, the Curly one has been banned again!!:D
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I didn't put two & two together, but just being negative was bad enough.

Throwing people's names out there with slander is his cup of tea I guess.

Have a great day everybody!!!! keep it positive !
 
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