Nobody has done this more than once and that was using house cues and chalk. Even so...
Someone in the family has a low tolerance for smoking. He was playing pool with a smoker, who was a friend and coworker. The guy had a habit of dropping his finished cigarette in a beer can to put it out. Sooner or later it was probably bound to happen. Cigarette in my kin's beer. He didn't say a word, chiclets all over the floor!
As I said in my first post, I have tried turning chalk up or down consistently when playing. Doesn't matter, people get chalk everywhere. As you know, back in the day people toting their own chalk seemed odd so you didn't have all the chalk holders so common today. I have been places where it was normally put on the light, didn't work well for short people!
I will continue to go with the most common technique around here of turning the chalk face up on the table. The rails and cloth are still going to get dirty with chalk dust.
I used to put one cube of master each by two diagonal pockets. Then people would try to get in my head moving it around!
Chalk is one of those things that will always be annoying as long as cubes are everywhere. I remember some old events where they miked up the players right on their lapel or that area of their shirt. I don't remember what chalk they were using but it sounded like a cement mixer when people ground on their chalk against the microphone.
Of course my favorite too cool to fool rube technique was to put the chalk on the floor and spin the cue stick on top of it. Never got a fire but I have had smoke rising pretty heavily!(grin)
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