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He's so bad, if he gets weight, he loses it. He's so bad his own mother wants a shot at him. He's so bad, his Fargo won't compute.

Nobody has said Ernie should get a free pass for any crime, at least from what I've read so far. The only out he's been given is the possibility that he sold the cues legally to be possessed legally in the US, then was blindsided when the buyers attempted to take them to Taiwan. I am sure you...

Actually, the LA Times article has some info I have not read elsewhere. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pool-cue-ivory-sentence-20161107-story.html "Prosecutors charged Gutierrez with aiding in the attempted exportation of African elephant ivory without proper documentation under...

According to this article dated November 8, the two customers, Huang Ching Liu and Wen Shou Wei Chen, have only been indicted as yet. http://worldanimalnews.com/vanguard-pool-cue-maker-sentenced-aiding-illegal-ivory-trade/ This site is animal-specific, so don't jump on me, I am just providing...

pool culture as I saw it I guess now I know why my old pool hall went out of business. It wasn't the danger of stepping on used needles in the parking lot, we just didn't go barefoot. It wasn't the danger of the junkies, cause most of us were more dangerous than them, and certainly better...

I have posted something similar to this before, but it is worth repeating. For several years I recorded the problem percentage of our company shipments, which were in the tens of thousands of transactions per year. We used all the big shippers except USPS. We shipped boxes of small items much...

Snapshots of Early 1900s Pool & Billiards These are mostly new to me, though the Hoppe photos look familiar. Photos include: Actor's Home: pool room Firmin Cassignol (2) W. Hoppe (3) C. Demerest (2) Jerome Keogh Schaefer Morningstar Martha Clearwater Mrs. King & Miss Clearwater Roudil Edw...

I agree, and in my experience I would extend it to say a home-study mechanic can recover rails just fine, if they research properly beforehand, and if the table is not some fancy antique with odd fitments. I've done it myself once, and both bed and rails came out looking near perfect, no, they...

Why recover my own table? Because I have to. The problem with most recover guys is that they are either poorly trained hourly workers, or some back-of-the-pickup gypsy with a business card. The hourly guys are paid low wages, so they don't have any intention of making it a career and learning...

no, but they should ban ivory balls. Turn your head and cough when the TD reaches down to check.

Playing the local champ in league play, the set was down to one easy shot, with him shooting at the eight ball for the win. The crowd was hushed - that easy eight ball would win the night for his team. Our guys were already sadly prepared for the defeat, even before he shot. The champ...

I had the good fortune to know some great older players after their prime. This was in the mid-70s in north Texas. Those few guys had spent years as successful 'hustlers' in the traditional sense of a U.J. Puckett - never the best of the best, but for years good enough to make some money...

I have a very similar problem with a table mechanic - promised and paid for the work, he failed to note the eight holes under the felt that he had cleaned out needed re-filling before he put down the new Simonis cloth. Now, with the work halfway done and undone, I get no resonse to my attempted...

Dear Mr. Tournament TC, re: recent match: Ooops, so sorry I stepped on my oppo's foot, purely accidental, of course, cause if it was on purpose I woulda crushed his instep instead of just pinching a couple of toes. O yes I get so nervous and clumsy when I'm matched up with someone who plays...

The guys who start out with 'what is your best lowest price' are, to me, window shoppers. If they get a low enough number from the seller, maybe they will agree to buy, maybe not. In any event, they have not put forth any offer themselves, not put anything on the table themselves. That is not...

I agree. I saw a TAR vid where Dechaine hollered across the table and across the interviewer "Shane, get my cue" and instantly the camera showed the shitte eating grin on his face - he knew exactly what he was doing, trying to treat get Shane's goat by treating him like some sort of low paid...

Due Diligence Required... Caution on buying used tables. I bought a Brunswick used from a Good Christian Lady (she proclaimed herself) who told me it was hardly used and never had a problem. Then after I drove 80 miles to view it, she mentioned a minor crack, which I could barely see. She...

Why not? Ok, calculating mode ON, let's see, thirty days has September, April June and November... must be 31 days in August, 24 hours per day, site was down for about 46 hours, the refund is therefore TA DAH exactly 6.18% of the monthly service fee. But, some of us don't pay a monthly...

Only $10 + tax to share a room with 8 more pool players, gambling hi-lifers (or lo-lifers) and/or pool fans? If I were going there, I surely would buy me a share. Course, I might have to flip it, being overflowing with the milk of human kindness and knowing lots of folks downtown could use a...