no action!

[Cuebuddy]

The good thing about coming to New Orleans is that it is downhill all the way. I'm about two feet above sea level where I am at and New Orleans is six or eight feet below sea level! Come on down thisaway and we'll find some fun times.

I'd jump into partners wid you on your business, or would have until you mentioned post holes. I have dug way more than my lifetime quota of post holes, gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about digging one more. My hands feel like they are raising blisters just typing about post holes. My buddy John has cornered the market around here, John Deere. He is a tree planting son of a gun with a 24" or 30" auger too. First time I saw a power auger I thought it was a wonder for the ages. I think I like them even better than flush toilets.

Hu

I don't want to hear you guys crying about digging holes down there in the swamp. It just so happens that I have a PHD when it comes to digging holes(PHD=Post hole digger) and where I dig there are plenty of BFR's(I will let you guys figure out what those letters stand for).

 

[pt109]

:thumbup:

Mr. Majestic was one of my favoriter movies years ago. I'll jump all over that Ford 4x4 if I get a shot at it!

Hu

This thread was starting to sound pretty...Mr Majestic...Chas Bronson....
..written by Elmore Leonard.
Then y'all had to spoil it by mentioning Fords...Hu and Blue must know
what it's like listening to Fords rust on a quiet night.
Bronson's a good man but Norris and Seagal had the sense to use a real
truck in their movies....a Dodge Ramcharger.

So forget about me getting involved in this action....you guys will be
shootin' airbarrels 'cause all your money was used for spare parts.

regards
pt..<..a Mopar man for life

 

[Blue Hog ridr]

Ford. Found on road, dead.
Fix or repair daily.
Altho, I am partial to the F 150 four timses tho.

 

[C.Milian]

Count me in

If yall put this up for a later date, say a few months down the line, I might be able to drop by for a few days. But the crawfish better be worth it. There's little crawfish houses popping up everywhere making a killing. The lines run to the sidewalk of the restaurant strips during weekdays.

Other than Mardi Gras and cajun seasoning, what else you got to offer? I'd like to see a crocodile hunter, when is their season?

 

[pt109]

If yall put this up for a later date, say a few months down the line, I might be able to drop by for a few days. But the crawfish better be worth it. There's little crawfish houses popping up everywhere making a killing. The lines run to the sidewalk of the restaurant strips during weekdays.

Those lines weren't people waiting to get IN.....
..after you eat crawfish, you tend to leave the joint walking backwards

 

[ShootingArts]

had a water well dug

I don't want to hear you guys crying about digging holes down there in the swamp. It just so happens that I have a PHD when it comes to digging holes(PHD=Post hole digger) and where I dig there are plenty of BFR's(I will let you guys figure out what those letters stand for).

I had a water well dug awhile back. 430 feet, took less than three hours to drill, cost less than $2000. Water tasted better than anything out of a plastic bottle. Eat your heart out!

I did encounter a BFR down here, cost me hundreds of thousands. I owned land above one of the biggest oil deposits anywhere, the Tuscaloosa Trend. Oil wells all around my land. Unfortunately there was a rock shelf that kept the oil about 28,000 feet or so down under my land, just too deep to run casing. I helped drill 24,000 feet somewhere else but things are getting a little warm even that deep. Casing collapses as deep as they needed to run it under my land. Some kinfolks did very well though.

Hu

 

[C.Milian]

those lines weren't people waiting to get in.....
..after you eat crawfish, you tend to leave the joint walking backwards

looooooool!

 

[Itsnotme]

I can't find any action! I try and try but nobody will bet a thing! I'm looking for races to twenty-three playing rotating games of three, six, seven, nine, ten, twelve, and fifteen ball rotation and I want to bet $13.53 a set. I get all kind of nits that want to play ten dollars a set and jerks that want to high roll me and bet $20 a set. I get people that want to change the game and play just nine or ten ball or even one pocket. Can't they understand what I came to play????

Try as hard as I can to find it there just isn't any action in this town! It used to be so much better. I remember back in '76 every time I passed through I was in nonstop action. Now . . .??? My nose is wide open, I'll play for a week straight or until I lose up to $25, come on somebody, come play! (We will discuss the spot when you get here )

Hu

Tell ya what... I'll give you 2 to 1 if you bet $14.75 a set :winknudge:

 

[ShootingArts]

no croc's

If yall put this up for a later date, say a few months down the line, I might be able to drop by for a few days. But the crawfish better be worth it. There's little crawfish houses popping up everywhere making a killing. The lines run to the sidewalk of the restaurant strips during weekdays.

Other than Mardi Gras and cajun seasoning, what else you got to offer? I'd like to see a crocodile hunter, when is their season?

No croc's in Louisiana but I can find you a nice alligator to wrestle about eight months out of the year if you promise not to treat it too rough. Saw one that went seventeen feet less than five miles from the house and can scare up a ten or twelve footer most of the time. Crawfish season runs from late January to May or June. A few caught outside of those times but the peak time is just a few months in the Spring.

We have the usual tourister trap things and antebellum homes. Swamp tours where they play with the gators and such too. More fun, we can either get with a friend or borrow his boat and get into the real backwaters and away from the tourist stuff. I'm not much on doing the tourist things when I travel, definitely don't do them at home. I was into pretty serious wildlife photography for awhile though and I covered a lot of ground doing that. I can spend a day or two playing tour guide showing you the real Louisiana if you like that kind of thing. Making the trip from pool hall to pool hall or casino to casino checking out the places of interest along the way could be fun. One thing I do enjoy is driving both banks of Bayou Lafouche, known as the longest street in the world because that is what it was for many years. Even when I was young there were still school boats instead of school buses in parts of South Louisiana.

You will have to listen to a live cajun band while you are here, probably at the original Mulatte's. Fun to watch everybody from babies in people's arms to great great grandmeres out on the dance floor. One of my favorite places used to be at the end of the world, where a road ended at the intracoastal canal. There was a pirogue being rebuilt alongside the dance floor, the real deal not just decoration, and people of all ages in the place as well as the occasional dog ambling in and out or dozing in the middle of the floor with people walking and dancing around it.

The finest seafood this side of anywhere and people that love to party and have a good time from border to border of South Louisiana. The northern part has fine folks too but it is almost a different world, more country than cajun. I can put you in a small poker tournament most weekends, 30-60 people sometimes a few more but most are donating. Plenty of opportunities for fun and profit, I'm sure I can hook you up with younger people that can point out the current hotspots, I'm thirty or forty years out of date on the party scene!

Hu

 

[ShootingArts]

sworn to fun, loyal to none!

Ford. Found on road, dead.
Fix or repair daily.
Altho, I am partial to the F 150 four timses tho.

I have went through more vehicles than most families. A dodge ram in my driveway right now but ford, chevy, and gmc have all been there. Really liked my 3/4 ton chevy with a warmed over 454 under the hood. I ran it for 275,000 miles before it was stolen and it would still pass anything but a gas station. Too many tours of duty in the petro-chem plants when I was running jobs, the body was more bondo than steel but truck rental had paid for it several times over.

Probably had less chisler products than other things but my little Dakota that I bought new gave me 165,000 miles of good service and was still getting somebody else around years later, may still be out there.

Had an old 3/4 ton ford with a 360, the most notable thing about it was it got 13 miles to the gallon. Empty or with 12,000 pounds on it and behind it, 13 miles to the gallon.

I drove an old 62 ford half-ton that had been a farm truck. Drove fine but it steered a little stiff. Made the mistake of greasing the front end. For the next 10,000 miles it was easier to herd cats up a river than herd that thing down the highway. That old I-beam front end was shot and there was a half turn of slack in the steering wheel.

I've owned everything from pretty nice to Rolls Canardly's, it doesn't matter much as long as the AC blows cold and they go when I mash down on the loud pedal.

Hu

 

[C.Milian]

Sounds fun! Can't wait to wrestle gators and eat crawfish.

 

[manwon]

Dam Hu, this is really a cool thread I wish my Mother would let me gamble I would also like to play you some.

Take Care Buddy!!!

 

[ShootingArts]

maybe

Tell ya what... I'll give you 2 to 1 if you bet $14.75 a set :winknudge:

Stretch the set to 27 and you have a deal! I won't even want to add games or double up and start over if we are even up at 25 games. All this action talk in this thread has me feeling wild and willing to take a little risk!

Hu

 

[ShootingArts]

I'll always roll out the red carpet!

Dam Hu, this is really a cool thread I wish my Mother would let me gamble I would also like to play you some.

Take Care Buddy!!!

Craig,

If you ever find yourself down this way I'll roll out the red carpet and treat you to the best seafood in town even if your mom won't let you gamble. All kidding aside, I hope you make it down someday.

Hu

 

[manwon]

Craig,

If you ever find yourself down this way I'll roll out the red carpet and treat you to the best seafood in town even if your mom won't let you gamble. All kidding aside, I hope you make it down someday.

Hu

Thanks for the invitation I would really enjoy it myself.

Take care

 

[JAM]

I can't find any action! I try and try but nobody will bet a thing! I'm looking for races to twenty-three playing rotating games of three, six, seven, nine, ten, twelve, and fifteen ball rotation and I want to bet $13.53 a set. I get all kind of nits that want to play ten dollars a set and jerks that want to high roll me and bet $20 a set. I get people that want to change the game and play just nine or ten ball or even one pocket. Can't they understand what I came to play????

Try as hard as I can to find it there just isn't any action in this town! It used to be so much better. I remember back in '76 every time I passed through I was in nonstop action. Now . . .??? My nose is wide open, I'll play for a week straight or until I lose up to $25, come on somebody, come play! (We will discuss the spot when you get here )

Hu

I gotta game for you, Hu. I found this ad:

BILLIARDS and Pool Lessons are being offered from a top area player and proven tournament winner in a private setting. Learn what professionals and top players have taught me. Open to everyone from beginner to top player. Learn correct fundamentals before bad habits start. Pick up pointers on the mental side of the game.

References available on request. Also catering to groups and pool league teams. Always looking for action games in 14.1 no count, one pocket, bank pool and three-rail billiards. Call Jody at 507-5990 or email smartguy8144@hotmail.com.

Source: Billiards Ad [Retrieved 13 August 2011]

The only catch is he's in Lebanon! :grinning-moose:

 

[ShootingArts]

glad to meet him halfway

I gotta game for you, Hu. I found this ad:

BILLIARDS and Pool Lessons are being offered from a top area player and proven tournament winner in a private setting. Learn what professionals and top players have taught me. Open to everyone from beginner to top player. Learn correct fundamentals before bad habits start. Pick up pointers on the mental side of the game.

References available on request. Also catering to groups and pool league teams. Always looking for action games in 14.1 no count, one pocket, bank pool and three-rail billiards. Call Jody at 507-5990 or email smartguy8144@hotmail.com.

Source: Billiards Ad [Retrieved 13 August 2011]

The only catch is he's in Lebanon! :grinning-moose:

JAM,

That sounds like a guy I'd be glad to meet halfway . . . if somebody has a boat I can borrow. I'm thinking about QE2 size, with pool table!

Hu

 

[JAM]

JAM,

That sounds like a guy I'd be glad to meet halfway . . . if somebody has a boat I can borrow. I'm thinking about QE2 size, with pool table!

Hu

We need to get you this -- Gyroscopic Pool Table -- for the high seas.

 

[ShootingArts]

don't need a fancy table to do that

We need to get you this -- Gyroscopic Pool Table -- for the high seas.

JAM,

You don't need a fancy table to do that. Back in the eighties an old scoundrel(naturally somebody I considered the salt of the earth) by name of Teester Moran had a bar just off of Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge. It might have been a scenic highway before Standard Oil built the biggest refinery and petro chem plant in the world there in the 20's but it was in what we will refer to politically correctly as a distressed area by the eighties.

I'd drink six or eight beers playing pool and Teester would reach under the bar and break out a gallon jug of 'shine; the genuine article, homemade corn squeezings. A generous shot or three of that and the bar table did just like that there fancy gyroscopic table!

Hu

 

[JAM]

JAM,

You don't need a fancy table to do that. Back in the eighties an old scoundrel(naturally somebody I considered the salt of the earth) by name of Teester Moran had a bar just off of Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge. It might have been a scenic highway before Standard Oil built the biggest refinery and petro chem plant in the world there in the 20's but it was in what we will refer to politically correctly as a distressed area by the eighties.

I'd drink six or eight beers playing pool and Teester would reach under the bar and break out a gallon jug of 'shine; the genuine article, homemade corn squeezings. A generous shot or three of that and the bar table did just like that there fancy gyroscopic table!

Hu

LOL! First time I had a taste of genuine moonshine, we were on the road in Tennessee, way up in the mountains somewhere. There was a nice little spot with four bar boxes in it.

The locals invited me outside to take a swig of their moonshine. I used to drink back then, so I figured I could handle it. I lifted the jug up to my lips, swallowed a medium-size gulp, and then I swear that it burned the back of my throat. For a few days, I felt like I had a piece of skin hanging in the back of my throat from the burn.

Years later after I quit drinking alcohol, we were on the road somewhere outside of Atlanta, GA. I went to an AA meeting there, and it was one of the best AA meetings I had ever been to. Folks were sharing their stories of back in the day when they were running moonshine. Man, those AA meetings were so much cooler than the ones in my neck of the woods. :grin: