Recent content by Biloxi Boy

Non-pool players use pencils.

Thanks Bob. Your puzzle was before my "time". I don't suppose it can be filled out with the keyboard (tech speak?). It looks like a good one. Further, I questioned the accuracy of my answer, but I knew it was the answer.

There's a bunch of them that I study for a minute and then go on to something else. With those, I just have to shake my head and wonder -- it must take Jeopardy Champions, but how many of them can there be? Thousands? Hundreds of Thousands? Can't be a million or we would have done cured every...

I was solving an old NYT puzzle and ran into the clue "Bank". The answer, as all good cueists know, was "carom". Even as a pool player, it took me a minute or so to come up with it. I then realized that, while not an everyday occurrence, I run into pool references all of the time as I wrestle...

Why can't a member give multiple "likes" to a single post? I press the "like" button a second time and nothing happens!

Can we all agree that the french fries used to be much better?

Anyone ever play in one of Tommy Kennedy's tournaments? Tommy carried a bunch (10-20) of boxes of nice, clean balls every time he came to Jim Bobs to put on a tournament. As far as we were concerned, Jim Bobs balls were fine, but Tommy was eliminating one of the many bugaboos that could haunt...

We played on the old equipment. We know what it took to overcome the limitations. I play better now -- I credit better cloth and rails, but cues have come a long way, too. I can only wish my young self could play with the benefit of all of the advancements of the last 50 years . . . The...

Will someone please explain what happened? I am having a little difficulty ferreting out exactly what occurred.

I gotcha Hu. Thought about him after I posted.

I am reluctant to broach the subject, and I certainly do not mean to be negative or derisive, but here goes . . . I came up and live in a very straight pool world, perhaps I should more accurately say "in a very straight world". The world has certainly changed, but not my pool hall world. I...

Been looking for the "your account > preferences" screen. All I get under "home" is news.

The only essential thing missing was GIRLS, but somehow we lived through it.

Find two friends -- one who does not mind coaching you as you play and another who does not mind playing you while you are being coached. No substitute for having a knowledgeable person in your ear/over your shoulder as you are doing it.

Larger question: Should you have been the person to make the call? Was a neutral party not available?