Recent content by middleofnowhere

I know this thread is meant to be kind of a joke but at one time maybe still his book was selling online for quite a bit. Oddly enough though when he first finished it I was at a straight pull tournament in Las Vegas. He had a card table set up out front with the books and he couldn't give them...

Funny how you remember things. I was in Joe burns office with him at that tournament and he pointed a gun at me. I also beat Omaha fats for like a hundred and got stiffed. I'm almost 80 and I think a lot of that stuff was not the good old days as we sometimes remember it.

I was there, I think Denny Searcy busted the game. If I remember right he played for like 24 straight hours.

I think the best play I've ever seen is around 1985 when Efren was was hanging around the pool room with Mike LeBron and Parica. For 3 days Efren was giving tremendous weight to top local players many of them tournament players, the kind of weight they probably never been offered before. You can...

I played on one at the BCA show years ago. Never seen one in the real world though. Tommy Kennedy was working their booth. It got a lot of attention.

This is an AI breakdown of Sarah In the 1961 film The Hustler, the female character Sarah Packard is portrayed as an alcoholic and aspiring writer, not a prostitute. Played by Piper Laurie, she meets the protagonist, pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson (Paul Newman), in a bus terminal. While she...

She makes a comment about the mens razor saying "complements of the house". Implying she often has men to her apartment.

I phrased that poorly. It was the sweetener plus the caffeine. I saw a doctor on the Merv Griffin show and he was talking about the dangers of the artificial sweeteners being used in everything. What he described was exactly what I was experiencing. I read about Jimmy Conners having the same...

That was a good one. Another recently posted is Miz vs Davenport 1989. I just watched it again in fact.

Might mean something or nothing. Years ago I was about to quit. My playing dropped off due to what seemed like a mental problem. At times it was like I could not see any angles and the lights were flickering . I owned a pool room at the time and had been playing the best my life. Running...

If this has been mentioned I apologize. Should I be allowed to play with ear plugs?

A bit off topic , lot of cue makers who work from home are probably not licensed, insured or properly zoned. If they managed to burn their house down say spraying finish or something, Insurance may not want to pay due to running an illegal business out of the house. Over time they will have...

Almost every form of payment now reports.

People often think they are not paying sales tax because it is in the price.

The thing with sales tax is, your tax number makes you an agent of the state to collect (Their) tax. In other words you are not paying the tax, it is their money the second you collect it. If you fail to send them their money it is treated as a thieft. It is at no time your money to spend and...