Earl makes front-page news on AOL
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I think your link is broken. I get an error page.
Anything on pool in the mainstream is a good thing in my opinion. If Yahoo puts this on their front page, with a non working link then I think we hit the big times. 
On a side note, I wonder how many people will come out and learn to play pool because of Earl's video. They'll see Earl making it look easy on those hard shots and get lucky on position.
On a side note, I wonder how many people will come out and learn to play pool because of Earl's video. They'll see Earl making it look easy on those hard shots and get lucky on position.
Wow! Check out the next two videos after Earl's. Jeanette Lee and the jump cue, as well as a billard game.
I realize this video of Earl was previously recorded, but to make it on AOL mainstream news is pretty exciting!
Gosh, it worked for me when I just clicked it.
Here is the entire link: http://on.aol.com/video/earl-strick...=maing-grid7|main5|dl18|sec3_lnk3&pLid=471722
Where the red arrow appears on this attached JPEG file is the original place where the link was entitlted "The life of a pro pool player."
This is a video snippet of a previously NYT online video article about Earl, but seeing it on AOL this morning was kind of cool. :thumbup2:
You can be sure that it definitely caught my attention.
This is a video snippet of a previously NYT online video article about Earl, but seeing it on AOL this morning was kind of cool. :thumbup2:
You can be sure that it definitely caught my attention.
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Jam, like you I was excited about it and posted with a google link. Glad to see someone else is on AOL, LOL.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=362165
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=362165
Tom, I am so sorry I did not read your thread first. I would have definitely contributed to it.
I can't leave AOL. It would be like changing my home phone number, and then nobody would be able to reach me.
I had no idea AOL was still a thing. Every little bit helps though .
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Yes, I always read Alison's posts on FB. She is a ray of sunshine in the pool world today. I really enjoy her contributions.
Even though I had seen this video before, I was just elated to see it on AOL News or any mainstream news for that matter.
Like others have said, it is great to see pool get a little notoriety.
You know, I have to agree with you on this. I'm already reading about something happening at Steinway with Earl. Makes me want to drive up there and check the place out.
Funny story. Back in the 1990s, during family get-togethers, a family friend would go on and on about the wonderful things she's reading about and learning on the Internet. She had an aol.com email address. One day she asks me what my AOL screenname was, because she would like to send me something and to stay in touch. I tell her I don't have AOL. She gets this surprised look on her face, then a look of concern, and then asks me, "oh, you're not on the Internet? You really ought to get yourself an AOL account!" Needless to say, those in the room more knowledgeable than she chuckled.
Remember, I.T. has been my career since the early 1980s, and back then I worked for a couple of the companies that were Internet-technology pioneers and formed the backbone of the Internet. And I told her this, too -- but it didn't click. She thought everything Internet-related had AOL at its center. It was an interesting conversation trying to help her understand that the way she experienced the Internet -- through AOL -- was more of a prophylactic / Romper Room way
, and that it's possible (and more common) to use the underlying technologies -- e.g. email, the web, video-streaming protocols -- directly without a third-party interface.I do have to hand it to AOL, though; while their brainwashing tactics were always in question, they *DID* quickly bring millions of Joe/Jane Doe average citizens into the Internet age, that would otherwise would've taken a lot longer to do so.
-Sean