That was a lie????
Biggest lies in pool stories
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I learned first time out, chalk is irrelevant on a broom stick. Played as much speed and angles (near zero) as I could. The operative premise is anybody who needs the broom will sell out.
There's that Lisciotti story he told about being on his case ball and the guy pulls a gun and starts firing past his head. Made the ball with no further trouble. And then Strickland told it. lol.
Since we are telling the truth: Scotty Townsend stops at a bar along the two lane. Gets to talking to the bar owner and told him he could cut a limb out of a tree in the parking lot and beat the owner playing with it. The man had to bite on that! Scotty hadn't put a limit on how long he could whittle on that limb and I heard tell he spent over a day shaping the limb. When he was done he used it to take the owner for over $1700!
We could fill a book with Scotty stories. Factual fiction and fictional facts as Jimmy Buffet would say! One of his more impressive exploits happened when he was running a little low on funds. He bet on jumping off of the Huey P, the bridge over the Mississippi at New Orleans. The jump would have been about 125-135 feet depending on how high the water was in the river. Anyway you size it, the Mississippi is over a mile wide there. Scotty left his cowboy boots on to protect his feet and went in feet first. Both boots split up the seams! The found Scotty a mile or so downriver and he did need a bit of patching up at the hospital.
Hu
We could fill a book with Scotty stories. Factual fiction and fictional facts as Jimmy Buffet would say! One of his more impressive exploits happened when he was running a little low on funds. He bet on jumping off of the Huey P, the bridge over the Mississippi at New Orleans. The jump would have been about 125-135 feet depending on how high the water was in the river. Anyway you size it, the Mississippi is over a mile wide there. Scotty left his cowboy boots on to protect his feet and went in feet first. Both boots split up the seams! The found Scotty a mile or so downriver and he did need a bit of patching up at the hospital.
Hu
I can steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.... Rod Stewart...
You're not wrong...when I started at a local community college back in the day, tuition was $12.50 per credit...To be fair, a semester of college was like $77 back then.
Maybe they played the same guy.
Never though of that.
Wonder if they ARE the same guy.
You forgot Ramen.You're not wrong...when I started at a local community college back in the day, tuition was $12.50 per credit...
I've heard of some pretty aggressive sharking techniques. But the one where you just start shooting at the guy has to be near the top. Not gonna lie... I think it would be effective against me.Never though of that.
Wonder if they ARE the same guy.
This cue is all original....
JV
JV
Pool Room make money, that is why most owner drive New Lexus's or BMers.
Wait wut?
lol... lost my bearings. If I hadn't seen Goodfellas I may have tried to engage the guy in "conversation". I don't think anybody would play it out.
Funny part is I bought that story. Added it to the lore that inspired me. And then long after I'd forgotten it, along comes Earl...
WobblyStroke
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I kinda feel bad for guys who actually ran 100 or paid their way through collage back in the day bc everyone will just assume they're a gas bag like anyone else who utters those words. Got to play a few guys saying such things and despite my collage days pool playing paying little more than my bar tabs, I'm not sure I ever lost a rack to one of these numpties.
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I did see somebody pull a pistol and point it at a man's head when he was shooting at the money ball. The guy on the pool cue said "Whatever" and fired in the money ball! I think the stakes were fifty bucks. Do you really want to do life or be introduced to Gruesome Gertie over fifty dollars?
I hired a man happened to be a twin. He and his brother must have started fighting in the womb and never stopped. Not lightweight fights, one had cut the other's throat in a bar but the man survived it. About ten years later they were helping their dad roof his house. They got to arguing, one climbed down, got his gun, and shot the other off the roof killing him graveyard dead!
Years later I bumped into one of the twins son. Their names were almost identical and I couldn't remember which one had shot the other. Whichever it was had gotten out of the pen and was out and about. I had liked the one that worked for me but didn't make any indelicate inquiries.
Hu
“I’m just a beginner trying to get better”
That line did pay my bills for a couple years once upon a time. I said once as I needed something new to say. The “I ain’t played in xxx months”’was wore out.
This was back in the 80’s.
So when I told a guy I was a beginner (I was a B+ player at the time) and he fell for it, ok cool I made an easy game that time.
Since it worked once, I tried it again, it worked again. And again and everywhere I went it seemed to work. Even when I got a bit older it still worked.
Put it this way if pool action was still a thing and I was out there, I wouldn’t share it here. I never told anyone that line-unless I was using on them. It got me more soft action (more weight, weaker guys willing to play) it just made the guy I was playing feel good about himself. Bingo! Hustlin 101
I miss the hustle,
Fatboy<——yeah i play all the time, but im a beginner tying to just get better.
Vulnerable low hanging fruit-come get some…..they tried lol
That line did pay my bills for a couple years once upon a time. I said once as I needed something new to say. The “I ain’t played in xxx months”’was wore out.
This was back in the 80’s.
So when I told a guy I was a beginner (I was a B+ player at the time) and he fell for it, ok cool I made an easy game that time.
Since it worked once, I tried it again, it worked again. And again and everywhere I went it seemed to work. Even when I got a bit older it still worked.
Put it this way if pool action was still a thing and I was out there, I wouldn’t share it here. I never told anyone that line-unless I was using on them. It got me more soft action (more weight, weaker guys willing to play) it just made the guy I was playing feel good about himself. Bingo! Hustlin 101
I miss the hustle,
Fatboy<——yeah i play all the time, but im a beginner tying to just get better.
Vulnerable low hanging fruit-come get some…..they tried lol
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
That's good bait!“I’m just a beginner trying to get better”
That line did pay my bills for a couple years once upon a time. I said once as I needed something new to say. The “I ain’t played in xxx months”’was wore out.
This was back in the 80’s.
So when I told a guy I was a beginner (I was a B+ player at the time) and he fell for it, ok cool I made an easy game that time.
Since it worked once, I tried it again, it worked again. And again and everywhere I went it seemed to work. Even when I got a bit older it still worked.
Put it this way if pool action was still a thing and I was out there, I wouldn’t share it here. I never told anyone that line-unless I was using on them. It got me more soft action (more weight, weaker guys willing to play) it just made the guy I was playing feel good about himself. Bingo! Hustlin 101
I miss the hustle,
Fatboy<——yeah i play all the time, but im a beginner tying to just get better.
Vulnerable low hanging fruit-come get some…..they tried lol
If someone asks how I play, says good shot or says that was close on a miss, I like to say, well I'm still learning. It's not a lie.
Sometimes I think people try to get in my head, even saying things like good shot, so I like to have this throwaway line. It lets me address whatever is said and move on with the game with a clear head. It doesn't even matter what their intention was, it's up to me do deal with the distraction and move on. It's multi use too. Sometimes a friend will be introducing me and saying I play good, I just say "Well, I'm still learning." The guys that get it will say something like "Aren't we all." Sometimes it calms or winds someone up. It's situational.
After missing a ball or something dumb instead of getting pissed off I'll just think it too. It's not an excuse and it allows me to get on with the game, kind of like how Efren would scratch his head and grin.