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Le Spot on Shepard past McCowan has ONE... the standard here seems to be GCs vs Diamonds.

What a lousy way to start a new week... my sincere condolences to Barbara and Doug's family and close friends. I first ran into Smorg on RSB like most people here, and soon found myself on the end of his sharp wit. He gave me a hard time for being an English-Canadian and threatened to 'bop' me...

Love the sharpie... you're a sly one, Mr. Tucker... lol. Good looking kid. A future hall of fame cue-maker, I'm sure.

Looks awesome, Mike. Two comments... Why so many 7' tables? My local hall has leagues every night and they only have half a dozen. Even the league players seem to prefer to practise on the 9 footers. Also, if you want to have pro tournaments there, wouldn't it be nice to have an 'arena' area...

The important thing about a good pair of shoes nowadays, Joey, is whether or not they've been wind-tunnel tested for their flight characteristics. I mean, if you are in the same room with eg. a US President and decide to show your contempt for his policies, is the shoe going to fly straight...

I had the same problem with an impacted Layani joint - couldn't budge it. My solution was to get a couple of buddies over. I held it with a hand on each side of the joint and the other two guys had both hands on the shaft and butt respectively - as close to the joint as possible to avoid...

Wow... I musta missed this. I've been through the congestive heart failure thing myself and it's no picnic. Smorg, if you're listening, my heartfelt wishes for a quick recovery. It must have been that porker valve that's wearing out - remember this when you had the operation...? Now I'm...

Awe what...? You threatening us Fast Eddie...? :-) If I recall correctly, Thierry Layani still has the trophy which is probably appropriate because he won it the most number of times. Nice to hear you are still extant though...

Wow... didn't know that - thanks for letting me know. I guess Ruby is now 'retired'. We had some good tournaments there... For sure. Mike. You have my work ID and my home ID is... maloneod@rogers.com

Hey, Mike... if you recall, that's the picture on the cover of my book of short stories 'Hamster Tales'. The picture was taken in a Chinese province by a National Geographic photographer. Apparently most homes in the area are too small to accomodate a pool table so they mounted this table-top...

If you like ghost stories... here's one I wrote a while ago... http://davidthehamstermalone.blogspot.com/2007/11/game-at-dooleys.html

I have a feeling I'll be in for a drubbing either way... <g>

Hmmn... I'm scheduled to play him August 2nd in Toronto - I'll ask him about this if I get the chance...

I gave some lessons on how to draw the cue ball to young Mike, one of our 3's in CPA. He kinda got the hang of it but was a bit shaky on the concept. A few days later I wonder into Le Spot and he's playing a match with one of our older players. "Hi, Dave..." he says, waving excitedly. "I've...

One day when I'm feeling rich, I want you to make me a cue like your playing cue with all those subtle wood tones. Still one of the nicest 'subtle' cues I can recall ever seeing...

Hi, Roy... been busy with work and a new puppy - and I guess we haven't had a GWN tournament for a while. Nobody visits Toronto any more. Are you still making cues? Incidentally I was mentioning your site to one of my CPA team-mates who was looking for a jump-cue a week or so ago. The book...

Good thing you didn't fart at the same time - you'da needed surgery...

Sorry, Joey... didn't see this. Any new stories I have time to write are now on my Blog. http://davidthehamstermalone.blogspot.com/ Not that I have much time to play these days. Busy job, new puppy, high maintenance wife... you know how it is :-)

Hey, go easy on him, JAM. Aren't you the one who was taking a 'peak' at AZ in your AZ survey thread? <g>

FWIW, my wife Ortelia is 4'10" - you're tall by comparison. She uses a standard size cue with no problem. You'll get used to it.