For the 80s / 90s price (and even today) the hard rock maple wood (NA grade AA) McDermott shafts setup with the usual 3/8x10 big pin thread is a great shaft for what you pay:



I think some of the E series McDermott cues from the 90s still hold great looks and hit with many white and black joint collar choices in the same 3/8x10 big pin with the shaft above:


Not a fan of their EK series which has a different joint (I think goes for the EM series). I wish they used the same forward balance weight bolt system (now and back then) as Jacoby (and many others including Carmeli and Pierce). Plus I wish McDermott could pick a standard joint diameter and stick with it (.845 or .850?), plus maybe a little less diameter "flare" for the butt handle area.

Chicagoplayer said:

My dad lived at Division & Clark and I drove past there nearly everyday.

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I lived about a mile north of there during the 70s - went past nearly every day too.

Still alive! (whodathunkit?)

pj
chgo

Friday April 17.
The morning after league ass says mint.
Ooops excuse me as I giggles .
My suspension was for printing a vile racial slur. Guilty by the letter of the law. Innocent on intent. Striving to educate isn't inciting to riot. Or something like that.
Anyway The F*** talk is hitting My news feed.
The President started it.
Sometimes you just gotta say it.
F*** His @ss. Shrug from a congress person seems a reasonable response.

Bob Jewett said:

The phrase is apparently a modern paraphrase. It slips off the tongue. What Hamilton apparently did say does not slip so well. The source of the paraphrase appears to be, in part:

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people.... The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by change, they therefore will ever maintain good government.

-- Alexander Hamilton

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Lots of founders shared such sentiments, as I noted earlier, Bob, but the "masses are asses" is quite a ... "paraphrase" of the longer Hamilton remarks you referenced!

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I am amazed at how fired up AZB posters are about the Yapp shot.

Personally I don't think any player should call a foul on himself with a ref present unless it is extremely obvious and the ref somehow misses it ( a playing touching a CB with his tip prematurely, etc). I don't think I would even allow it if I were a governing authority.

Players should not be expected to have DrDave level of scientific knowledge of CB reactions. Others here disagree, and I respect that. I just don't like the attacks on Yapp's integrity as if he's a untrustworthy or immoral player.