I've had people spit in the chalk during a match...
The first time ever.
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or rub a wet finger/ cloth over the tip.
but i can't see either one completely soaking a whole tip.
it's also suspicious that the soaked tip phenomenon didn't seem to have happened to anyone else in the same room and playing conditions that day.
last- i'd really like to know what "dehydrated water" is, too. someone mentioned that here, claiming that that's what Kamui uses on its clear tips. someone should see if there's a patent on dehydrated water- if not, we could get one and sell boxes of dehydrated water (just add water! tons of uses!) and sell them like pet rocks.
I remember Claude Bernatchez. That would have been a priceless video to record that moment. I played him in a Senior's tournament many years ago and I felt like he was moving the rack around on the spot and throwing my mediocre break off even worse than it was. I kept breaking from the same spot and the cue ball would do different things so I just blamed it on Claude moving the one ball and the rest of the rack minute amounts to the left and right. I asked the tournament director at the time (after I lost my match to him) what I could do about such things. He replied a very private and confidential suggestion to me and I haven't shared that with anyone that I can remember, so I won't do it now. I didn't know Claude personally so I don't know the level of gamesmanship that he is capable of, so it could have been my imagination or the glare from the door which I faced each time the door opened which blinded me when breaking.
Anyway, I spoke to Ray and Brandon a few minutes ago and Ray's theory of what MIGHT have happened is still a theory.
Ray keeps rubbing alcohol in his car at all times and it often spills in the car, shifting around. His theory is that maybe the bottle of rubbing alcohol could have spilled out when the bottle tipped over, evaporated on the outside of the soft case that Brandon now uses and "possibly" come into contact with the leather tips and never dissipated from the leather, since the shafts were inside of the case. He doesn't know this happened but Ray said he has always had trouble with rubbing alcohol seeping through the threads of the bottle when tipped over. Thinking back I believe I have seen the same thing happen with bottles of rubbing alcohol seeping through the threads when tipped over. Brandon didn't think to smell the tips to determine if it had an alcohol smell or not. So the mystery lives on.
JoeyA
Out of all the different languages that I don't understand, I believe French is my favorite. Here is a video of Claude playing and the match being narrated in what I believe to be French. 
Apparently my being around Cajuns speaking their dialect of French ,has warmed me up to French language. Very expressive language and almost artistic when spoken well even if I can't understand a word of it.
JoeyA
Apparently my being around Cajuns speaking their dialect of French ,has warmed me up to French language. Very expressive language and almost artistic when spoken well even if I can't understand a word of it.
JoeyA
Out of all the different languages that I don't understand, I believe French is my favorite. Here is a video of Claude playing and the match being narrated in what I believe to be French.
Apparently my being around Cajuns speaking their dialect of French ,has warmed me up to French language. Very expressive language and almost artistic when spoken well even if I can't understand a word of it.
JoeyA
Did you notice Claude's lag?
Either he was drinking, or the billiard mechanic was.
The tournament you played Claude in....Biloxi?
Do you mean a feral ferrule, or a feral ferret.
Ferrule-Faucet Major
I bet that you would have Tapped her. Majorly.
"Dehydrated water" is the best thing I've read on AZ in months. I literally loled. Thanks for that.
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We did have that idea but there was no alcohol spill anywhere in the vehicle or room.
Ray
I have always liked chalk that squeaked feeling that it was a dryer. There are products out that makes what i will call water wetter and more absorbent. Could that be put into chalk and transfer to the tip.
I've used kamui for years with no problem. The black kamui was made to resist moisture and why I use the black tip.
I've used kamui for years with no problem. The black kamui was made to resist moisture and why I use the black tip.
Did you notice Claude's lag?
Either he was drinking, or the billiard mechanic was.
The tournament you played Claude in....Biloxi?
I did play in the Biloxi Seniors tournament that Steve Mizerak put on, but I think I played Claude in Naples, FL.
JoeyA
Did you notice Claude's lag?
Either he was drinking, or the billiard mechanic was.
The tournament you played Claude in....Biloxi?
Nothing that a little top left couldn't have fixed
That was where my buddy played Claude, Biloxi about 1998?
I could be off by 5 years either way , that's what happens when you get old.:thumbup:
That was where I played dice the first time in my life on the square and won $6200.00 There was probably another 10 grand on the table in play when someone at the end of the table stuck their hand in and hit the dice when I threw them, adios.
I still believe he worked for the casino.
Grady made some money off the roll and had me in his radarthe rest of the trip thinking I had been controlling the dice, and we were going to get rich.
I didn't have the heart to tell him different.lol.
Nothing that a little top left couldn't have fixed
You should post up photos of your miniature cues, here in the Main Forum just to show the majority of people how cool looking they are.
Nice seeing you again in Denver. Thanks for visiting with us. We had a great time, seeing you again and meeting all of the new AZB faces.
JoeyA