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B: We all could have made different choices, and to be honest, I'm kicking myself, because the last time I spoke to George, I should've asked for contact information of one of his next of kin. I didn't even know George had passed until it (as well as the funeral service) had already happened...

Folks: I don't come around to AZB anymore, but this is a special occasion. I'm thinking about my good buddy, George A. Phillips, who passed away recently after a long bout with cancer. George was an artist pool/billiards cue-maker, and a great one pocket player. He never failed to be there for...

I agree. "Pool" is the very definition of cheesy; you can see Exhibit A when you look at the mind-numbingly dumb nicknames we like to foist upon players. -Sean

;) :D :thumbup:

That's true -- Sigel had come out of retirement and played terrible in that match, and Efren capitalized. Had Sigel been in stroke, that match would've been over far sooner. But at the same time, that match illustrates a great struggle, with Mike fighting his out-of-strokedness. It's a good...

Dave, I have that Accu-Stats match -- Efren vs. Mike Sigel, 2000 14.1. Mike had missed the breakshot (and missed the rack, too), and that was what Efren faced when he took over the table. But I agree -- normally, that carnival pool gets cured right away when you're playing someone the caliber...

<Big-time facepalm> In my own world (enterprise networking), there is a routing protocol called "ISIS". (It's actually IS-IS, which stands for "Intermediate System to Intermediate System", but you'll hear it spoken as "ISIS" -- it rolls right off the tongue.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-IS...

What is "center english"?

I think the dumbest move I ever made here on AZB, is when I created a "placeholder" thread in the Aiming Conversation subforum for a project I wanted to do to pull the veil from and prove the CTE visuals, with e.g. laser line pointers and other measuring gear. I thought I was very careful in...

Sh*t. <runs out of room pulling his hair out, screaming...>

<chuckle> No, I don't think so -- unless it presents an "opportunity" ;). BTW, I had an eye fart with the "conveniently snipped" comment -- I fixed that from the version you quoted. -Sean

I agree, Lou. I'll tell ya, if not for anything else, these two threads, I think, have served a great purpose in dispelling long-held notions of what a slip stroke is and isn't. All good in the end! -Sean

The problem is you mentioned "it is not a slip stroke like Cornbread used to do" -- which, if you've been following along, you'll notice that people have been doing one of two things: 1.) claim that even though it's not to same "slip-to-the-butt" stroke, it's a slip stroke nonetheless (wrong!)...

All I saw there, was Efren bouncing the cue backwards in his grip hand until it was where he wanted it to be. Then, for the delivery stroke, his grip hand is pinned on the pull back and follow through. That is NOT a slip stroke. Like Lou mentions (and as discussed in the "Mosconin [sic]...

Lou: You and I disagree on how often (or how rarely) Mosconi used a slip stroke, but I'll back you up in the notion that Willie wasn't a slip stroke player in the same sense as Cowboy Jimmy Moore or Cornbread Red (or even Johnny Ervolino). That backing, though, doesn't mean that Willie's...

Hmm... that's a head-scratching conclusion. Irish linen is a lot more slippery than a gloss finish. (The latter tends to "stick" to skin -- which is called "tack" -- unless you use corn starch or something to break the tack.) Most of the folks I've seen use a slip stroke, used irish linen...

And yet, in the information age, it's the cheapest commodity there is. Skills, experience, and just in general "know how" on the other hand... -Sean

I'd opt for #1 -- share it. Here's the reason -- the best ideas are those that are vetted by hundreds/thousands of eyes, not those few handful of eyes trying to capitalize on it. And, what you think may be a "secret" isn't really a secret at all, but rather either a well-known thing that for...

I agree with Hungarian and Freddie. Reasons: 1. the outlet's engineered purpose (to supply power at both outlets for devices) is being jury-rigged to do something else. Yes, there is a tab on each side that you can break/snap off to isolate each outlet, but that is so one outlet can be used...

Hadn't had the time to keep up to date on this thread (shoveling my butt out after last night's storm), but I think Neil nails it here. Forget about elbow rise or drop for the moment. If we boil it down to just a pendulum stroke (i.e. moving only at the elbow), when the tip of the pendulum...