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Just kinda a so-so Archer fan, like the way Oscar and Ernesto have behaved over the years. not too sure about Ernesto forfeiting to Oscar over the years. They could have done it without being open about it so there is at least that! Anyway, moving on! I am in Louisiana so especially my civil...

I am glad Johnny cleared up what I believe was an air barrel. Such things can haunt you a long time, pull your karma way off center and cause a lot of bad things to happen if you are a good person. Funny thing, it doesn't impact a snake nearly as much, just anudder tuesday for them! Anyway...

I lived in an antebellum home in about 60-62. No sign of a pool table but a handful of clay balls out in the grassless part of the yard. These were solid color, Apparently baked clay all the way through. I don't remember details well at the moment. Big chunks knocked out of them. This home was...

Won't be long before AI/not AI won't be noticed. I remember when we had to write something in longhand then type it out to turn in at jr high or high school. The times, the times, they are a changing. So is my computer. I thought it was ready for burial, then it came back to life this evening! Hu

Thank you for the clarification. There seemed to be some question and I didn't know myself. Hu Alex is getting a little long in the tooth but perhaps an all-around, between the two, poker, a cue sport, and ?? would be fun. Hu

I realize this was originally a facebook post that we got bounced to here thanks to Steve but I assume the original was from Evan with maybe a little pixie dust sprinkled on it. Whatever, this is the kind of follow-up we need to see when somebody wins a big event, not that I am adverse to "I got...

It would be a good question but a much better one sixty or seventy years ago when we spent a lot of time in class learning script and had to write a lot in script. Now there is probably a strong imbalance if someone likes to play pool, script seems almost dead. My handwriting has always been...

When others were scoffing at the old men when we were teens I had my ears open to all they said and treated them with respect. One of the things I heard was that if you shoot for perfect and fall a little short it can still be pretty damned good. If you try for good enough and fall short you...

Sorry, the confusion is my fault. The game was one pocket. The controlled break made predicting the break much easier and I am sure that Corey being Corey he had many hours in perfecting the break. I can't remember Corey cheating but if there were gray areas he was apt to bend the rules to the...

Corey came in second or third at Derby City about twenty years ago. Rack your own and I didn't see anybody contesting Corey blatantly slug racking. He would put the balls in a wooden rack, position the rack where it belonged and then right in front of everybody pull everything behind the third...

I played Johnny around 1990. I didn't notice any lint picking then, certainly nothing excessive. I suspect that unnoticed or ignored lint or trash on the table cost him an important win or two to start the habit. Not as noticeable but I had a two piece get very loose. After that I always...

This should stir some poop! There is not a normal person in the world since normal is just a theoretical condition. Hopefully a person balances out to near normal. Consider the olympics. Not one of those people standing on a podium is normal! "Normal" and "average" have very similar meanings and...

From what I have seen over the years, usually after you get the fed's attention the first thing you receive is a cease and desist letter. Smart people cease and desist and never do such a thing again. You never know who is going to handle a case. One fed considers $5000 a major sum, another...

Nothing is ever simple. I never placed an order for one tip, or one of anything else. I had to see what I needed and put together an order. Might not have time to do that right now. Things like phone calls and putting orders together are dead time. You have to do these things then when you...

Might be true for clowns. If cue smiths did that a finished job might be sitting on the shelf six days. A week or ten days for components to arrive, two weeks would be a common time for a tip job to be returned with a set day. Not a retail shop with everything sitting on a shelf then you get...

My cue weighs between 16-16.5 ounces. Sixty inch cue with a balance point at 21" from the tip, the same place as a 58" cue with a 19" balance point. No metal in the cue, ivorine four ferrule and joint collar, G-10 pin. Bocate butt is kinda thin for my taste but bocate is stiff. I planned this...

When was the job promised ready? Tips are often put on when the cue maker doesn't feel like doing something else. It has been said before but never pay upfront. Reasonable to pay cost of materials, maybe a little more. Trying to be gentle here so consider this a general statement not directed at...

Well, there is theory and there is fact. I'm on the wrong side of seventy. Went to the eye doctor a few months ago. Still no glasses needed. The tables and pockets don't move, neither do the balls before you hit them. Something most people don't recall, Efren was legally blind or close to it...

Funny thing, while I am not a great banker, when my game is stale for whatever reason, my straight in shooting falls off a lot more than my banking. My straight in shots rely more on cyphering and eyeballing. My banking depends more on calculating available angle and speed, feel if you will...

This was a perceived issue with benchrest shooting. Many were concerned because we attracted few people in their twenties. For a lot of reasons we didn't appeal to twenty year olds. The thing was our target was recently retired empty nesters. They still had twenty to thirty years to compete and...