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I spoke to Buddy briefly today. (I don't know him personally but had been hoping to republish Rags to Rifleman, but I don't think we're going to get there.) He didn't manage long on the phone, but I get the impression he'd be glad to speak to those of you who know him.

I'd guess I'm probably closer to the demographic you're worried about, and I don't think it's offensive. If you go too bland, with no personality (and no risk), you'd get something pretty forgettable. That's alright for an established brand, but it does nothing to capture interest or build a...

I mean, which would you rather have?

In Freddy Bentivegna's Encyclopaedia, he gambled them and lost.

Do you have a pic?

Funnily enough I also speak French, German and Japanese with equal fluency...

I knew an old guy who complained that tables were shorter than they used to be, so they could stack more of them in trucks. I don't know whether he's right though.

I think when Jeff Bezos founded AZ Billiards, he always intended to expand overseas

But how do you say it in Arabic? :)

I would like a forum called 'Billiard and Pool History in Egypt' where every post is just that one quote from Anthony and Cleopatra

I did a little more reading, and it seems like there was a fad in Europe in the 1600s for books of mathematical puzzles. Apparently there was a lot of 'borrowing' of content. I might try to do some investigating and see where billiards first come into the genre, and what people do with it. If...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166306200236?mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&siteid=0&customid=link&campid=5335988529&toolid=20001&mkevt=1 Has anyone ever encountered this book before? It seems to be a very old book of tricks, including some billiard shots. If the ebay listing can be taken at...

What a great project. I've offered a very modest contribution to the content.

You could design an algorithm (as video games have), but if you generated one via machine learning it would probably be more effective. Then you could try to unravel or approximate its decisions. I don't think you can have a strictly unsolvable position unless somebody's got no shot (or really...

That's a good idea. I hadn't thought about it in terms of search optimisation, but it would help on Amazon too.

I ran my blurb through an AI blurb tool, and patched some of its suggestions together. This is the result: Journey back in time 200 years and unearth the legacy of John Thurston, the visionary who crafted history on green baize and transformed the game forever. Through Thurston's sales...

I was in two minds whether to have a short note at the start, so perhaps I should.

I remember finding that one in Lucas's 'Lives of the Gamesters' (1600s (from memory) gossip and tall tales, mentioned in Hendricks's History, quite good fun). It caused me a bit of head-scratching at first!

That mistake was bugging me so I went back and checked the original book, and Gillett has used 'Minguard' (twice). I recall having a vague hunch about that and dismissing it. I have a PDF of Thurston's version of 'The Noble Game' (1831) which uses 'Mingaud', so Gillett didn't get it from there...

Oh no! That would have been a bad error. Thank you.