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I have been pretty lucky with shipping in recent years. I had something enroute when I started commenting in this thread. My package is now a week overdue and counting. Bastards must be either watching my accounts or monitoring AZB! Paranoid might be over the top but a little noid is just...

Yeah, I have seen video where Willie said both. The earlier video said he missed, later video he said he just got tired. Best I recall the shot he missed was pretty easy so probably a bit of both. Willie was clicking off about four balls a minute for getting close to three hours best I recall...

Yeah, I like to see somebody really able to do something. Ti could do a lot, but he also relied on trickery a lot and was a top card mechanic. He was a monster with paper cards, plastic took a lot of his edge away. I remember betting on stupid stuff when we were kids. "I can jump higher than...

I never get in those kind of bets but changing philosophies had more to do with the end of Titanic Thompson and people like him than their own behavior. Generally speaking, people don't pay off a bet when they are outsmarted. If people had to admit they lost a bet they used to pay off even if...

Great story! Can we get you to squeeze out a few more about you or your dad? Speaking of challenge matches, after Katrina Mike Massey and Spitball Charlie did a couple exhibitions to help victims. They also did challenge games, eightball on an eight foot table. Mike would break and run out one...

"Can't believe I missed that shot" includes the people that smash sticks or act out too. They are trying to convince others, maybe themselves too, that they are better than they are. I used to holler and yell, shake sticks angrily, all deliberate fake copying the people that did stupid things...

I have beaten someone with a broom many times but in all fairness they were using one too! A reply to somebody else's post, chalk does work on a broom handle, the smaller diameter the broom handle the better. Out comes the Buck, a little scraping and a crosshatch cut to hold chalk. Hu

I had a time sensitive package that needed to come from our little neighbor on the left, Texas, to me in Louisiana. It shipped, to california! Made it all the way back to Texas, somebody "corrected" the zip code, back to california! It made it to me on the second or third bounce, by then stress...

The catch is that to build a perfect cue every time would require synthetic materials instead of organic and machinery that would cost in the millions. Then you would have a production cue even if it was limited production, not really a custom in my opinion. a cue builder uses their skills to...

Well there are dates and there are discretionary finds. I like that term and wish I had thought to describe my pool winnings that way when I was married! Hu

Still in Ernesto's possession I believe. It was a demo piece to show what he could do as a beginning cue builder. The half million does include the case. Cue and case are almost all silver and ivory on the outside. There were some good pictures of it on AZB but I couldn't find them the last time...

A loupe can be a good negotiating tool. Very rare a cue is flawless. It is a lot like people magnifying a cue twenty or thirty times on a monitor then bitching about the quality. The silver Ginacue is one of the most valuable cues in the world, maybe worth a half million or more. It is full of...

Few if any stinkers on the Easy Rider soundtrack. In my mind one of the top ten movie soundtracks of my time or before. Hu

I try not to start thinking about the ones gone too soon. The list is long. Not surprising at my age now but the list has been long for decades. This is one that I usually translated as "man on the run" Good background music for playing but there were only a few songs that put a bounce in my...

I did paint my sneaky white, thought that might help! With my wrap around Blues Brothers shades indoors and the white cane I thought I was in there! After the first few years I just counted on the percentages and odds. I didn't want any talk of anything but play pool and let the chips fall...

I could put together a playlist of nothing but Waylon to play pool to. Hu

I have never met a naturalized citizen that wasn't damned proud of it. Some born citizens take it lightly. Far more than seventh grade Civics, I would say it is more like college level courses. Somewhat embarrassing to say but if ten people naturalized in the last ten years and ten born citizens...

You remind me, watching UJ Puckett on video. "I shot that shot like a girl." That wasn't enough though, "a pretty little girl." My sometimes road partner was loud. "Get in there ball" he would yell. Or "souwiee" like he was calling a hog. When Bobby was in a place everybody knew he was in a...

I used to proclaim the cue ball was warped when I missed. Funny how many people checked it if not immediately, when they thought I wasn't paying attention. I would proclaim it duck season when it was a wide open table or just put my hand to my mouth and act like I was blowing a duck call...

Some commentators especially in the old days were terrible about the "what I would do" comments. If their ideas were so good they would still be in the event instead of up in the booth! I did like the ones that admitted they had never missed a shot in the booth. I don't mind a commentator making...