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You wanted a reason for chalk face down, I gave you one you could test for yourself. Even explained nicely how you could find out for yourself. I suggest that you might be happier with your thought there is no earthly reason to do anything any way but your way. Hu

Late to the dance but this happened at a local gun store. The plan was to rob it. The man behind the counter pulled his pistol. Five customers including two off duty police officers pulled theirs. The would be perp dropped his pistol and amazingly no shots fired! A used car lot, an unhappy...

Put on a nice shirt. Then lean across chalk face side up and stretch a bit to reach a shot. Now you can tell me and the rest of us why placing the chalk face down can be good! I bought a gross of Master chalk, seventeen cents a piece back then. I threw a couple of pieces of chalk in every...

I think the hidden monsters are unknowns playing in one or a few places, maybe small town. Fargo is doing a lot of damage to unknown tour players now I believe. I'm thinking more about my old mentor. A shortstop that owned a pool hall in a leased space. The owner of the space built a pool hall...

I saw a few old timers wear aprons when I was young. Thought it might be a good idea to wear a nail apron with pockets. I think I tried it once or twice, didn't like it! I did various things with excess chalk. Sometimes on the light, if it was worn out I might hum it at a wall! For awhile I...

Only 1.4 or 1.5 Billion people in china. How many unknown pool players can there be!(grin) I doubt there is or was ever a road player that didn't run into a chainsaw now and then, a local with no name! I wonder how many people in china are on the net? How many pool players? Even a couple...

Not being a trusting soul I have to wonder if the chinese gubment put some money in the pot for this big last minute post. As for savers, I always give Vito 20% of the saver. Never a problem! Hu

Just kinda a so-so Archer fan, like the way Oscar and Ernesto have behaved over the years. not too sure about Ernesto forfeiting to Oscar over the years. They could have done it without being open about it so there is at least that! Anyway, moving on! I am in Louisiana so especially my civil...

I am glad Johnny cleared up what I believe was an air barrel. Such things can haunt you a long time, pull your karma way off center and cause a lot of bad things to happen if you are a good person. Funny thing, it doesn't impact a snake nearly as much, just anudder tuesday for them! Anyway...

I lived in an antebellum home in about 60-62. No sign of a pool table but a handful of clay balls out in the grassless part of the yard. These were solid color, Apparently baked clay all the way through. I don't remember details well at the moment. Big chunks knocked out of them. This home was...

Won't be long before AI/not AI won't be noticed. I remember when we had to write something in longhand then type it out to turn in at jr high or high school. The times, the times, they are a changing. So is my computer. I thought it was ready for burial, then it came back to life this evening! Hu

Thank you for the clarification. There seemed to be some question and I didn't know myself. Hu Alex is getting a little long in the tooth but perhaps an all-around, between the two, poker, a cue sport, and ?? would be fun. Hu

I realize this was originally a facebook post that we got bounced to here thanks to Steve but I assume the original was from Evan with maybe a little pixie dust sprinkled on it. Whatever, this is the kind of follow-up we need to see when somebody wins a big event, not that I am adverse to "I got...

It would be a good question but a much better one sixty or seventy years ago when we spent a lot of time in class learning script and had to write a lot in script. Now there is probably a strong imbalance if someone likes to play pool, script seems almost dead. My handwriting has always been...

When others were scoffing at the old men when we were teens I had my ears open to all they said and treated them with respect. One of the things I heard was that if you shoot for perfect and fall a little short it can still be pretty damned good. If you try for good enough and fall short you...