What a great contributor you are, Jennie.
Here's hoping for another 20k. :thumbup:
Best,
Brian kc
Here's hoping for another 20k. :thumbup:
Best,
Brian kc
Congratulations JAM On Your 20,000th Post
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What a great contributor you are, Jennie.
Here's hoping for another 20k. :thumbup:
Best,
Brian kc
You are a sweetie pie, Brian! :smiling-heart:
Here's a little pool-related content for the thread, as follows:
Patrick Sheehan never lets a call go to voice mail if he can help it. There could be a pool table emergency.
Like the time someone called from a church wanting to know whether Sheehan moved pool tables and, if so, could he quickly get out to Gresham.
"It was a table that was being donated to a church, and they wanted to move it," recalls Sheehan, 48, who operates Sheehan Billiard Service in Portland. "They thought they'd take the legs off, get enough guys and carry it up and out. That's what many people think they can do."
When he got there, he found eight guys standing around a pool table that appeared to have split in half before it even made it to the stairs leading up from the basement. "When they took the legs off they also took the frame apart. That took the strength out of the table. And when they turned it on edge the rail apron broke. This happens all the time. Everybody knows that one."
Not everybody, apparently.
The story of the Sheehan clan and their presence in the billiard business in Oregon is as complicated as a Willie Mosconi five-rail bank, with plenty of highs and lows. :grin:
"This is the time of year when people start doing family things and start looking at that pool table that has been worn and torn, thinking it would be nice to play pool if the table was fixed," the younger Sheehan says.
One of his favorite memories involves an 1882 Brunswick Brilliant Novelty billiard table he found in a 19th century house in downtown Portland during the 1990s. The Sheehans had received a call to come take a look at a table that was to be sold as part of an estate sale the next day.
The table had been there since the house was built and it was covered in a layer of dirt. "The homeowner was looking to sell it as an antique but couldn't find the key to the door of the basement billiard room. We broke a window to get in."
They bought the table and cue rack, on the spot, for $2,000. "We got back to the store and before taking anything off the truck the cue rack alone sold for $2,500 and then the table sold for $25,000," Patrick Sheehan Jr. says.
Though he can't remember a time when he wasn't doing at least a little side work involving pool tables, the younger Sheehan says he's happy to be back at it full time.
"I fell in love with the billiard business as a kid," he says. "It was exciting. We always went on trips and we got to meet new people. I got to go to all of the trade shows in Chicago and Los Angeles and meet all sorts of celebrities: Willie Mosconi and Jimmy Caras. And I got to spend a lot of time with my father."
Read more about the Sheehan clan and their love of billiards: Billiards Expert Brings a Lot to the Table. [Retrieved 2 February 2012]
Pool tables have been in the Sheehan family for generations. Their roots stretch to pre-Prohibition Chicago, where the family started in the billiard business under the watchful eye of mobsters before coming west 100 years ago this month. Here is the younger Sheehan in action below. Check out that workshop!
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Good find! Wow!
"Butter my bread and call me Sally" -- I'd never heard that expression before, but I can't wait to use it! :grin-square:
One thing about you, Mr. Bond, when you post, it is *NEVER* bloviation. I always gobble up every word.
Have you ever heard of "Gobblers Knob" or "Punxsutawney"? Well, these are great words to remember, and they have to do with Ground Hog Day, February 2.
We have been having a strange winter to date here in my area, with very little snow and temperatures in the '60s and '70s during the month of January. According to the weather folks, there is a reason for this that has to do with a northern wind pushing things east of North America allowing us to enjoy a light Winter 2012.
Punxsutawney Phil, however, disagrees with the weather folks today, stating we will have 6 more weeks of winter.
Time will tell!
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Punxsutawney Phil doesn't seem so tough, I think I can take him.
But I hear his Uncle, Punxsutawney Pete, he can run out from anywhere. :thumbup:
Proceed with appropriate caution.
And, yeah, it's been strange (mild) weather here in CT, too.
Best,
Brian kc
But I hear his Uncle, Punxsutawney Pete, he can run out from anywhere. :thumbup:
Proceed with appropriate caution.
And, yeah, it's been strange (mild) weather here in CT, too.
Best,
Brian kc
Jam, I'm glad you're posting again.
I'm up to 53 words an hour...soon I'll be typing at your speed.
...does Keith type side-arm?
LOL! Keith is a hunt-n-pecker. [what a nickname, huh?]
IOW, Keith types with two fingers.
Me, I use all 10. :grin-square:
Not bad at 53, pt109. That's very respectable!
Check out this software for typing: FastFox Text and Word Expander.
You can create your own dictionary of brief forms. Like every time you would want to type, say, "split the wicket," you could create a brief form like "ss." You would type "ss," and it would spit out "split the wicket."
We actually have a picture that captures Jennie composing her az post #1.
Best,
Brian kc
LOL!
And here's me today asleep at the wheel in the cockpit! :grin-square:
