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One thing about these, after buying a few gross of shaft blanks I found a lot of them were good for twenty inches, not thirty. This would let the more radical curves be in the wood taper and the straight of the shaft or single taper be in the carbon fiber. I haven't seen anyone do it yet but it...

I have seen a few cue balls break over the years. Saw one with a smaller numbered ball inside, that isn't real common I think. Saw a weighted cue ball break. It had what looked like a pipe coupling in it and it was much closer to the surface than I would have expected. In general I think the...

Maha is correct. If balls jam and moving one would cause the other to fall it is a pocketed ball. If both would fall if the other one is moved they are both considered pocketed. The balls are pocketed when they are below the playing surface also. No doubt these two balls should be considered...

6500 round trip and barring emergencies my trips aren't round. While I was in California I visited a friend in Redding too. I try to always run scenic routes and catch as many friends as I can along the way! Hu

Small world syndrome! My friend Rudy lived in Redlands and had a camera store, focused on medium frame back then. I drove 6500 miles to see him before he died of cancer. Our house burned down when I was three or four. Dad had a big commercial double door chest type freezer on the back porch...

People still get hurt bad or killed over the craziest things. My cousin in maybe his forties lived alone. Fell in his yard, no idea why. Hit his head on concrete and it was hours before they found him. Hu

I think we can rule out Quaker State non detergent, that stuff left carbon behind by the ton and the engine was comparatively clean. Of course most of that carbon was in the top end. Wasn't Quaker State Supreme, that stuff would have probably caught on fire. It wasn't a synthetic oil, that...

Damn Jim, That goula brings out the Italian in me! Hu

There were huge cracks too. That college professor had managed to damned near blow one side off of the engine block and keep driving. I wouldn't have thought it would run but it started easily when he came for it. Two or three rods had to be broken, perhaps a chunk of rod and piston had...

A professor from LSU came into my station with a vibration under the hood in his old straight six truck. This was from the sixties when you could actually see the engine. It had three big holes in one side of the block, talking maybe six by six the biggest, maybe even bigger. I could see the...

Can't read the bag. Are those roll looking things called assholes? I wouldn't eat one on a bet! Hu

Just my usual writing in the past present tense. Hu

My brother was bragging about his children, "They are both on the Principal's list this semester!" I didn't bat an eye, "you and I were on the principal's list for years." "Not the same list." Hu

Normally my brother or I ordered the pizza. This evening mom was doing the ordering. "What do y'all usually get she asked after dialing the phone and getting somebody on the line. "The garbage pizza" Mom was in repeat mode and just rattled off what Rusty said. Mom was pissed!! Another time...

I always made bad bets and had to outrun the nuts! I was like a used car dealer that used to advertise on the radio that he bought for retail and sold for wholesale because it was more fun that way! In my gambling days I was like that used car dealer. If I lost a single game I cried loud...

Jack it and back it is very lame. I often wonder if people even think about what they are saying. The only time it makes any sense at all is at hill-hill and the other person has the break. Then I am more than glad to offer to jack it and back it!(grin) If they are timid soles and offer it...

It took me a long time before "in the middle" quit grating. As far as I am concerned it is a bullshit term for promoters and I'm not likely to change my mind. Now when I hear about a bet I automatically divide by two unless they make plain they are talking about the bet and not "in the middle."...

I paid thirty bucks for the red dot way back when. I tried to give it away for several years before somebody took it. Problem was that it rolled long compared to the red circle ball that all the tournaments were played with, and that we gambled with. Everybody that hit with it awhile agreed it...

There are many great things about Buffalo's. Unfortunately, I have COPD and even without that I have became highly allergic to cigarette smoke. Hurricanes forced me out of the area. Until then Buff's was my "home pool hall". I drove by several other pool halls to get to Buff's and never...

Ray was one of the pioneers of live steaming. He bled money in the early days and had to get very creative in the days it was many places first try at live streaming. He toted all he could with him and often had to source stuff locally on the fly! He made things work and had gotten to the point...