I understand they told you three weeks. Even if its a spiffed "off the shelf" cue - three weeks is super fast in any cuemaker's universe for any kind of made to order cue that I'd just assume he meant like three months or something and three weeks would come and go. I guess Schmelke can turn...
One of my favorite posts on here, I think it was Mike Page, is that the number of people who supposedly ran 100 "back in the day" is directly proportional to the number of people who hustled their way through college.
Pool also has two Icemans. Mika most famously nowadays, but Larry Hubbard had it first.
But my all time favorite nickname is for Ervolino - The Velvet Foghorn. There's only one of those.