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Yes, the original slipstroke referred to the hand slipping back on the final back stroke. Purely in an effort to end the confusion a handful of people on this forum agreed to call the release of the cue to let it slide forward just before contact with the cue ball a stroke slip to differentiate...

The most fun I ever had playing pool was a session with Danny Medina. He was a stranger when he came in the place, spent about thirty minutes trying to talk me into taking a ride with him when we were done and we were friends. We laughed and talked nonstop for hours except when the other person...

Need to put air brakes on it or I guess no air brakes for space. Let it sit still and the galaxy spin. Hu

With coin op tables, before electronics the money ball on the break had to be a win or a loss since somebody had to pony up for the next game. I have played both ways, a win or a loss. However, I never remember playing on a coin op where the money ball going in and a foul wasn't loss of game...

I was very young, just started playing pool well enough to gamble in bars. Found a place kinda in the old warehouse district, had highway and railroad frontage, close to the Mississippi River and docks. Big tables and small action, three or five a game. Bear in mind I am making a buck and a...

Eddie Taylor: He is on the table starting at about twenty-six minutes. Starts off at kindergarten but quickly gets interesting. More banking goodness from one of the greatest. Hu

I am sorry, you did make me genuinely laugh out loud though. Hu

I played with the tungsten for a month or two before buying the bronze. In terms of ball quality, no difference. However, a weird thing. The day I first broke out the bronze I played with the tungsten an hour or two first which I would have said I was well used to since they were all I had used...

I'm hoping to have a good ol' fashioned Irish wake, with an empty coffin. Show up about one AM, "Sorry I am late." Naah, but I have told my family to bury me with a bag of marshmallows and a bottle of single malt to have my bases covered. Hu

Not that I would be caught dead with a hairdo that required hairspray or a moose to hold it in place but I had a funny happen around the Reservations. I noticed pricing in the stores a little funny, even the Sonic drive in. Finally I made the connection to all the "Must show ID" tribal signs and...

Usually a major issue. There just aren't that many prime dates. One solution might be rotating who controls each major weekend from year to year. If it was known well in advance it shouldn't cause much confusion. Maybe have all three and four day weekends like this. I haven't really kept up...

Details can and I suspect will be worked out in an ongoing manner now that an agreement has been reached to work together rather than try to wrest power from each other and be in sole control. I'm sure we haven't seen the end of power struggles but hopefully they will be conducted in a more...

OK, off topic and off color but y'all started it! A woman was visiting a home in Mississippi on business and was astonished at the racial abuse the black maid tolerated. When the mistress of the home was out of the room for a moment the visitor asked the maid how she had tolerated that abuse...

Do you possibly detect a wee bit of hype? Hu

The numbers are fast changing. I read Japan had the most a little earlier too, a surprise to me. I did know china had a small percentage of debt but when they are in position to control over a trillion of our debt I have to think it is pretty significant especially for an adversary in economic...

What would happen if china dumped the existing bonds they are holding on the open market selling them at below value? Could they make our new bonds impossible to market? Seems like china could have a lot of leverage over the US in a few more years, five or ten. Even twenty years or more. Taiwan...

Practically speaking we don't have any these days. We are making less than one percent of the world's aluminum including what we recycle which is about thirty percent of production I believe. That is 2024 figures from a search I just did. I was stunned, no idea we had fallen that low...

china makes no bones about planning to rule the world. They look at history and the long periods they ruled their known world and consider it their natural place. They don't care if it takes fifty, a hundred years, two hundred. The goal remains the same, to rule the known world again. They are...

That is it in a nutshell! Bad enough if we have to get raw materials from overseas but we can stockpile some. Too, sometimes it is a good move to use up other people's resources while hoarding our own for future use. However, we should be able to do all processing and manufacturing here in the...

I found the story very funny, legitimately. The problem with the emoticon, hard to tell if somebody is laughing at the story or writer. I can picture the look on Freddy's and particularly his friend's faces. It would be time to flash some cash for more than the book though. Hu