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  1. Biloxi Boy

    Crossword Fans

    Non-pool players use pencils.
  2. Biloxi Boy

    Crossword Fans

    Thanks Bob. Your puzzle was before my "time". I don't suppose it can be filled out with the keyboard (tech speak?). It looks like a good one. Further, I questioned the accuracy of my answer, but I knew it was the answer.
  3. Biloxi Boy

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    There's a bunch of them that I study for a minute and then go on to something else. With those, I just have to shake my head and wonder -- it must take Jeopardy Champions, but how many of them can there be? Thousands? Hundreds of Thousands? Can't be a million or we would have done cured every...
  4. Biloxi Boy

    Crossword Fans

    I was solving an old NYT puzzle and ran into the clue "Bank". The answer, as all good cueists know, was "carom". Even as a pool player, it took me a minute or so to come up with it. I then realized that, while not an everyday occurrence, I run into pool references all of the time as I wrestle...
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    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    Why can't a member give multiple "likes" to a single post? I press the "like" button a second time and nothing happens!
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    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    Can we all agree that the french fries used to be much better?
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    Unaware of mismatched ball sets in upcoming tournament.

    Anyone ever play in one of Tommy Kennedy's tournaments? Tommy carried a bunch (10-20) of boxes of nice, clean balls every time he came to Jim Bobs to put on a tournament. As far as we were concerned, Jim Bobs balls were fine, but Tommy was eliminating one of the many bugaboos that could haunt...
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    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    We played on the old equipment. We know what it took to overcome the limitations. I play better now -- I credit better cloth and rails, but cues have come a long way, too. I can only wish my young self could play with the benefit of all of the advancements of the last 50 years . . . The...
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    In honor of my first follower on AZB

    Will someone please explain what happened? I am having a little difficulty ferreting out exactly what occurred.
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    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    I gotcha Hu. Thought about him after I posted.
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    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    I am reluctant to broach the subject, and I certainly do not mean to be negative or derisive, but here goes . . . I came up and live in a very straight pool world, perhaps I should more accurately say "in a very straight world". The world has certainly changed, but not my pool hall world. I...
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    Oops…..Need SomeAdvice on This Website Settings.

    Been looking for the "your account > preferences" screen. All I get under "home" is news.
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    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    The only essential thing missing was GIRLS, but somehow we lived through it.
  14. Biloxi Boy

    Played One Pocket Today

    Find two friends -- one who does not mind coaching you as you play and another who does not mind playing you while you are being coached. No substitute for having a knowledgeable person in your ear/over your shoulder as you are doing it.
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    Double Hit or Not? You Make the Call.

    Larger question: Should you have been the person to make the call? Was a neutral party not available?
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    Isn’t pool supposed to be dead?

    In other words, borrowing from the World War I-era song that rose to popularity after the war "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)" our question becomes "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em in the Pool Hall (After They've Played World of Warcraft?). Mine's not quite as catchy...
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    Isn’t pool supposed to be dead?

    If yours is half full, appreciate it, and enjoy it while you have it. If it is half empty, very little will fix it. The truth is, as Mike was saying above, pool has changed. Somewhere in the last 20 years, we made some big turns and our old world of pool is not even visible in our rear view...
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    Johnny Carson ask Jackie Gleason if he hustled pool.

    Check out his pinkie ring all through it, especially as he smokes all through it. Cat was ballin'. Can y'all imagine Gleason as a rack boy? In Brooklyn? Shame rackboys have disappeared.
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    Brunswick Black Case w Strap -- Very Nice and Very Expensive, but . . .

    I have nothing to do with this, price is tough, but if I had been looking for a nice one . . . Hard to pass up if you want one. SOLD https://www.ebay.com/itm/389683742086?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&customid=link&campid=5335988529&toolid=20001&mkevt=1
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    Delivery This Saturday!

    does DC'sP really have 30 house cats waiting?
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