Isn't gumbo fun !!!! In Eastern Montana many of the dirt / gravel roads are gumbo and after a rain or a chinnook when there's snow on the ground you're better off to stay put and wait for it to freeze or at least get colder before trying to drive back out to a paved road / highway ha ha

4wd doesn't always help in some situations ha ha bunch grass or buffalo grass can to a point but it doesn't always last very long .
A doomed road can if you can keep it in the middle which is a challenge ha ha , yes I'm reliving some wild rides into or out of the hills in my minds eye ! I'm glad I'm sitting someplace nice and warm and dry .

Having water drip down our neck or into you're eyes as you're trying to chain up you're pickup isn't as much fun as you may think !

apps to get larger amounts of instant cash from a machine? im way behind the times.
i know about the send money apps. i dont do them never will.

i had a guy almost got all the travelers checks i got from him cancelled just before i had them cashed. close call.
i dont go on the wire unless i know the guy real well and i have a lock.

thats why i wont be on here, or someplace crying why some losing hustler stuck me for thousands.

Still available. Just a lil bump

My view.

1.) I consider myself lucky to have seen Efren play in person many times. He is the best I have ever seen, and I have interviewed and seen most players from 50 years ago.,

2.) The players today are stronger today than 50 years ago. I think alot has to do with equipment, but you look at the players on both teams of the Mosconi Cup and they are incredible.

3.) Everyone here and often in pool rooms, you hear that leagues have killed pool. Again, I disagree. If it wasnt for leagues, millions of players would have not been introduced to pool. Secondly, they pay the bills in most rooms.

I think while there were some great players years ago, the stories I have heard remind me of my parents walking to and from school in a blizzard uphill both ways. I watch some old videos on youtube and these champions wouldnt have a chance against, Shane, Filler, or Gorsht, and many others.

JMO

Ken

for those kind of tips sure. i use a razor blade for the cutting down of normal tips. then sand paper.

ive never had a use for non leather tips.

how dumb can someone be to let a person other than a close friend who has money get deep into them. any big bet the money goes up unless you absolutely know the guy always pays off.

with many even the posted money needs to be secured.

maha said:

i would hate to see your shafts paul.

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Metal file comes in handy with special kinds of tips:

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One big change I have seen is the lack of pool halls in my area. I grew up in Northern Missouri and Southern Iowa. When I was a kid almost every little town had a pool hall. Snooker was very popular back then. All those pool halls are gone now. Sure we still have bars that will have a bar box or two but it just isn't the same.

GoldCrown said:

Was pool better 50 years ago. No. Has been fun since the late 50’s. Every phase from day 1 until today has been a lot of fun.

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In a way I compare pool to my other favorite sport: Baseball.

I started following baseball way back in 1952, when I was all of 8 years old. Back then, with only 8 teams in each league and no interleague play, it was easy to keep up with nearly all the players. And except for the World Series or the occasional Big Game that might decide a pennant, good seats were cheap and easily attainable by just showing up at the ticket window when the gates opened. After a few innings, you could sneak into the box seats and for the most part the ushers wouldn't care.

That said, today's players are infinitely more talented than they were back then, with a few notable exceptions. How could it be otherwise, given the expansion of the talent pool from 95% White Americans to players from all over the globe.

So there are tradeoffs. Cheap tickets for good seats are a thing of the past, but for $130 a year I can watch every game every day on a cheap flat screen TV. And while today's players are far more talented, we also have to suffer through the explosion of strikeouts and the disappearance of starting pitchers capable of throwing complete games, not to mention the robotic personalities of most of today's Superstars.

And similarly with pool, which I started playing when I was 20. What we've lost in "color" and atmosphere, we've gained in talent and accessibility to scores of tournaments a year via youtube and streaming channels. You win some and you lose some. Tradeoffs.

rusty, better snow than gumbo on your road.

i got stuck a few miles in once on it and drove out and pity the poor guys that had to grade it back after it dried out.

Mensabum said:

Its in the teens days and single digits at night here Rusty.
A bunch of white stuff would cripple the entire city.

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Since that winter back in 2017 we've been snowed in bad enough that we had to wait until we were dug out as the snow was deep enough we couldn't open any of the doors going outside !
The highways were shutdown as the highway dept had crew's running around like chickens with their heads cut off ha ha !

I got my old Toyota 4 Runner started , the hubs turned it and got out of the yard and to the gas to get more gas for the snow blower .
The snow drift was close go 10' deep over my snowmobile so digging it out wasn't a option ha ha and I was one of the few who could get out and get around , some of the drifts were deep enough that I had to drive around them and I was,missing my old 3/4 ton 4 wd high boy pickup with the skinny tires that cut through deep snow and keep going !

When I was getting close to town the radio station asked to not drive around in town unless it was a emergency travel only ! Using the snow blower was what keeps some people from having a heart attack and kicking the bucket !

Back during the winter of 2017 / 2018 , I sweet talked a guy who was in a big front end loader to push some of the snow from our driveway out into the yard and thankfully he did as I was as weak as rain water from surviving cancer treatments and it was tough to pull the rope start on the snowmobile which drove me crazy so I'd use resistance bands and build up my strength again .