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Rusty, I thought I knew a little bit about wildlife, especially in my home state. That is until I read the pamphlet wildlife and fisheries puts out every year. I suspect very few know an alligator is a fur bearing animal. I know it is true, the gubment says so! I have seen thousands of...

The teacher noticed the young girl daydreaming in science class so directed a question at her. "What part of the human body grows up to ten times it's resting size when excited?" The girl turned beet red and started stuttering. The teacher said that stutter told them two things. One, that the...

Thanks! I have to admit I have always tried to make my own fun. Listening to all the warnings about fingers, toes, and eyes I was amazed I and all my siblings never lost anything. I am not listed as an organ donor. Other reasons too but I always said I planned for everything to be all used up...

Quality equipment makes it easier for a top player to perform. Might not be a must but easier. It is also much easier for a banger to perform with the better equipment. Doesn't mean they have to spend a ton on equipment but they will learn faster with their own cue than playing off the wall. I...

Most of your food platters I look at and there is something I could pass on although most of it looks great, this is perfect! Yummy beef with a side of perfect beef. I'm in! Hu

Sad thing, this is a true story: Two guys were fifty or seventy-five feet apart behind cars having a shootout with pistols, I suspect beer might have been involved. All of a sudden one jumped up holding his hands in the NFL tee sign for a time out. "Time, time, I'm out of bullets!" Rapides...

I think it's a trick. I still haven't found a bow in her hair! Hu

As long as a stick is in a reasonable range it is much more Indian than stick. I gambled off the wall, usually with a very crooked stick. Crooked shafts protected tips. However, I played with straight sticks and good tips at home. Some sticks are both easy to play with and shoot better. Some are...

Class, and you took one look and knew Jackie could play! I always figured if they had given him another five minutes he would have pulled the movie out from under Newman. I was a long time appreciating Jackie, it was my loss. Hu

The problem with the emoticons, can't tell if laughter is real or sarcastic. That was very real, I chuckled out loud! We have so much in common we could probably have survived a few months on the road together. I didn't exactly hide speed so much as why work hard when it wasn't necessary? I...

We played much the same. I always played heads up and I never sharked anyone. I had safeguards in place to protect the bangers and never hustled them. I have to admit to hiding speed and hustling the would be hustlers though. I figured we were both playing the same games. One thing I was real...

The article doesn't match the title in my opinion, causing some confusion. The post runs a little long too. I should know, I am expert at long posts, so here I go! The original post is about practice performance vs competition performance and I am going to focus on that. I'm not going to...

I bought a Cynergy with the white ferrule or whatever they call it because I was worried about tracking all of that black on the shaft and old eyes tracking. Then I put some black electrical tape on the ferule. I saw the black just fine and liked it better. Hu

One night I played for the sales agreement on my business and the commercial property it sat on. One game of barbox eightball. The game was hard enough and the pockets tight enough it took twenty or thirty minutes to play that game on a Valley table. Hu

I never understood people bragging about beating someone and then admitting they were getting the lemon crush and the other person had to play one handed jack up with his weak hand and with his eyes closed! (this part isn't directed at HawaiianEye or anyone in particular) Funny thing about bar...

I did that too, missing and noting where the cue ball went. My favorite thing was hitting points on coin op tables when practicing by myself! I saved a lot of quarters and tuned tighter than aiming at pockets. Offering those easy pickings in a bar was more than everybody could stand. Before long...

Still find yourself trying to index the CF shafts? I never have quit trying to index the CF shafts that have no sweet spot to turn to. Hu

For years I used that three rail kick to verify that both the table and I were in calibration. That three rail kick from both sides or all four corners if the table looked sketchy was the gold standard along with a couple speed control shots. Depending on the condition the table appeared to be...

I forget what they called the soft ferrule when they didn't want to call it a ferrule. However, I always figured that the soft ferrule was to kill the resonance and keep the carbon fiber shaft from sounding like the hollow glass shafts. Using foam in different places to tune the shaft is...

The academia can provide a framework sometimes. Problem is sometimes the exceptions become the rule! One thing interesting that I did as an experiment. I messed around with a book at home, maybe Banking with the Beard. I was using a program on the computer to memorize the shots, maybe VP3. When...