Recent content by ChrisSjoblom

Flour tortillas are better for wraps, but pig skins are great for chicharrones!

Yeah, but too much pre-shot stroking and the whole cue quivers and goes limp.

The IRS would think they owe nothing in taxes on this as long as the person reports it correctly. In fact, it could lead to the $200 loss being able to be deducted from the person's other income, thus resulting is slightly lower tax liability overall. The amount on a 1099K is not looked at by...

Nice profile from Mary. Thanks for posting this, Terry. :)

The brighter the better, and whatever color temp that makes the 5-ball look orange. ;)

Looks like a Pol Pot to me.

A retired longtime state senator from Wisconsin, Fred Risser is a lifelong pool fanatic. Although he is on the wrong side of nearly every political question (just my opinion) he has been a decades long fixture in the Madison Area pool scene, and is a very decent guy...

You seem to have missed my point entirely. If you go back and reread the post I was responding to as well as my post maybe you will see what I was getting at.

That's the modernization of American culture, my friend. All of our major institutions; politics, media, schools, courts, medicine, etc, have been doing things to minimize an individual's sense of personal responsibility for a few generations now. Add to that the fact that human nature is such...

I was there only once, in the mid 1980s working security for a speaker at a big Right to Life rally there. I had a couple free days to explore. I generally avoid tourist areas when I'm in an unfamiliar city, opting for checking out the neighborhoods instead. In general I thought it was pretty...

I don't know if it is still that way, but McGoo's in Tulsa had a live music stage adjacent to the pool room as well. A few years back I was spending some time checking out pool rooms between Texas and Wisconsin, and I spent a few pleasant days at McGoo's. As soon as the band opened up on...

The digital jukeboxes (TouchTunes et al) can be programmed by the establishment owner to ban specific songs, artists, or even whole genres. If your room owner says they can't, have them contact the coin machine company that placed them and they will train them on it.

Plenty of sharks in DC, but not the pool variety.

The Carom Room in Beloit, WI has 34 or 35 tables - 23 upstairs and 9 or 10 in the new downstairs addition. Most are 7 foot Diamonds, but there are also quite a few 9 foot Diamonds, two Verhoeven billiards tables and a GC snooker table. Possibly a couple 9 foot GCs as well, but my memory isn't...

Back in the late 1970s I won $300 against a guy playing eight ball at $20 a game. When he pulled up empty he put his Rolex up against what he had lost for one last race to 5. He lost and I got the watch. I really didn't know anything about Rolexes back then, but it was gold so I knew it was...