favorite pool sayings

not really a famous pool saying but....

me and a guy years ago were playing some cheap sets one time, i was way up and after some back and forth banter he said:

"i most likely have forgotten more about pool than you'll ever know"
he then proceeded to gas a shot and i replied
"that must have been one of those shots you forgot......."

he was mad but even he was trying not to laugh it was so funny:grin-square:
 
Re: someone who shoots at his hole at a questionable point:
He thinks duck's a bird.

When you play a shot that leave whitey very close or on the rail:
If it ain't froze, freeze it witchya hand.
 
I would love to hear some of the pool sayings from other countries besides just the U.S. I bet there are some special ones out there.
 
JoeyA said:
I would love to hear some of the pool sayings from other countries besides just the U.S. I bet there are some special ones out there.
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O, sure thing, Joey:
German: was in der Hölle, nur passiert
French: ce qui dans l'enfer vient de se passer
Spanish: lo que en el infierno que acaba de pasar
Vietnamese: những gì trong địa ngục chỉ xảy ra
Basque: zer arraio gertatu zen
:smile:
 
"A volture is a patient bird" after missing early in the tough rack with high probability that your opponent wont run out
"I want that one about Cinderella too!" after your opponent pots some incredible shot
"I have to rise above the situation" before playing jump shot
 
Black-Balled said:
O, sure thing, Joey:
German: was in der Hölle, nur passiert
French: ce qui dans l'enfer vient de se passer
Spanish: lo que en el infierno que acaba de pasar
Vietnamese: những gì trong địa ngục chỉ xảy ra
Basque: zer arraio gertatu zen
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hahahahahah.
U should do stand-up. :grin:
 
One of my favorites

When you hit a shot and it doesn't goes as intended and you get all pissed off while balls are rolling then the balls come to rest in a locked up safety or the ball goes in - My buddy always says

" A good shot ruined by a bad call"
 
Favorite Pool Sayings

After missing a ball badly and slopping something in or locking your opponent up just say "Any Questions?"
 
Also, hit them hard an wish them well. I heard U.J. Puckett say that.
 
The only piece of pool advise my old Dad ever gave me (wasn't a pool player)... "shoot hard and hope!" :grin:
 
harshing my mellow

joey a wrote ...

One saying that I started years ago was, "Belly-up to the table like a man".

This saying was started when I got tired of hearing a particular player pleading with me for weight, when he didn't need it. The saying of course means, "You should play a match with me without asking for weight".

These type of sayings come back to haunt you though, because when a better player than me like Dippy Dave hears me begging for weight from another better player, they always yell out on the sidelines, "Belly up to the table like a man". Yeah, it's kind of embarassing when you have to ask for weight and the whole pool room knows you have used that saying.



boy is that true! it is so embarrassing to have your own words come back to bite you in the derriere!

one night i was playing a 9-ball game with my dear friend muffy and she missed the 7-ball leaving me a totally easy run out. i smiled at muffy and said, 'the wheel is still spinning, but the hamster is dead.'

pretty clever on my part -- 'the wheel is still spinning' meant the game was ongoing. 'the hamster is dead' of course referred to the fact that muffy wouldn't get another shot.

the only problem with my bon mot was that i'm the one who usually misses! so now, when i'm going up against muffy or fifi or julia or bubbles and i'm about to shoot a you-miss-you-lose shot, someone will toss my own line back to me. over time, the line was shortened to the single word 'hamster.' whispering the word just barely loud enough for me to hear is sharking at it's most unfair!

then my dear friend fifi decided that it would be more appropriate, right before i shoot, to go 'meep-meep' in a squeaky voice, her lame interpretation of a hamster's bleat.

so if you're ever in an nyc pool room and hear 'meep-meep,' look over and you'll probably see sunny about to miss another shot!

because foul language is so infra dig, i profane only when absolutely necessary ... so about two or three times a night i might counter a 'meep-meep' with an anglo-saxon verb, fifi as the predicate.



sunny

p. s. my girl friends and i spend more time laughing and drinking than we do pool playing; my question is ... is it an insult when we are referred to as the happy-wappys?
 
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After missing an easy shot I like to say "I can't get it in the whole, I keep jabbing her in the thigh"
 
after losing hill/hill to an 8 or 9 ball on the break (depending on the game)...."I hate to win that way", I've responded more than a couple of times - "we can rerack, and do a do-over". It has yet to work, but I know one thing; just don't go hill/hill and it won't happen to ya! :eek::wink:

One table at the pool hall has a pretty good sized roll towards one corner pocket (inch or two when slow rolled from the side pocket or farther). I like to take that table/pocket on unsuspecting opponents playing 1P (it's funny to see them stand up after a bank, only to see it "roll" in the pocket :wink: )....I like to say, "I'm a golfer, and can read the break" :)

favorite pool related saying though has to be - when negotiating a BIG spot (10-6, the 6 out, or x amount of games, whatever), "Damn, that's more weight than my 3 exwives combined" :eek: <----actually heard it said! lol
 
When I leave my opponent with a long shot, I say "That's a lot of green, but you don't look like Tiger Woods..."
 
heres a few,

when coming up short on shapes ill say wheres the rest of it !

when oppenent over runs shape ill say damn you been working out

heres one ive used a few times when playing my friends who ive tought a few things to over the years.... i tought you everthing you know not everything i know
 
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