Fat's One Liners

[jnav447]

Fats, talking about the late Bill "Weenie Beanie" Staton: "They say this Weenie Beanie has a lot of dough. Tell ya what, after I beat him outa all his cash and his hot dogs, they're gonna call him Teenie Greenie".

 

[PIRANHA]

Fats, talking about the late Bill "Weenie Beanie" Staton: "They say this Weenie Beanie has a lot of dough. Tell ya what, after I beat him outa all his cash and his hot dogs, they're gonna call him Teenie Greenie".

"You see my Dad took me to this bar that served free lunch and he would set me on the food bar or pool table, I did pretty good at both..."

 

[Rockin' Robin]

During one of the inaugural BCA trade shows held in Ft.Worth, one of the vendors had a magician in their booth. In strolls Fats with Puckett in tow, Puckett grabs the first chair he sees, and Fats wades into the crowd watching the magicians show. After watching a couple of tricks, he barks, "You ain't no magician.......You play me some pool.......I will make your wallet disappear."
Needless to say, he stole the act and the crowd and had an entourage following him the rest of the day.

 

[ironman]

Missing OHB!!

I just re-read this whole thread and near cried.
I really miss OHB. He contributed so much and when things got a little tense, he sure had a calming effect on things.
It isn't bad here at AZ, but it surely isn't the same without him.

 

[jay helfert]

To Cornbread at Johnston City, "When I get done with you, they'll be calling you No Bread Red."

 

[Hambone]

Minnesota on the Jansco's, "They should open up a law firm your Honor. If George stole your eyeballs, Paulie would swear you looked better without them, and you'll go away convinced that he's right."

 

[Hambone]

Minnesota on Mosconi, "The people come to see me by the millions, by the millions I tell ya. I'm Known all over the world. I could retire and move to Hong Kong, where there's a jillion people, and everybody there would give me a fin apiece. But Moscooonii... you could set Mosconi on fire at 4th and Broadway and it wouldent draw 8 people.

 

[JoeyA]

I have a story of Fats the first time I saw him. It was in the early 60's and he was doing an exhibition at a department store. I was only like 14 or 15 at the time, but one of my friends had a drivers license and we went to see the exhibition. It was pretty good but in the middle of it Fats was doing bank shots. It was really funny, he took a bunch of balls and began banking them cross corner hardly aiming at them as he talked continuously. Well he only made one or two out of the 6 or 8 he shot, but he then says without missing a beat in his W.C. Fields voice, "Now the fat man is going to bank them one handed" (He hardly made any two handed) He missed all of them one handed but it didn't faze him a bit and he just kept going. It was strange and funny. Then he was knocking almost every player you could think of, no one can play, Crane, Lassiter, Mosconi, none of them can play they won't bet two big dogs can beat a little dog or fatty meats greasy you know, all the stuff he used to say.

I don't really know why but I said to him my "friend Danny DiLiberto will play you for what ever you want and we can go there right now". Remember I'm just a kid but he comes over to me and gets like a foot away and he was a big man, and starts yelling in my face. He says "Danny DiLiberto, Danny DiLiberto, who has he ever beat. Florida state champion, who did he beat, a seminole Indian and an alligator." He then say, " I just saw him on my way down here, I passed him in my Cadillac as he was at a gas station putting air in his sneakers". I don't know what that meant but everybody was laughing like crazy and that was the end of our conversation. But when the show was over I was still standing there and he says "Hay kid come here". I think he is going to apologize or say something like it's all a show don't worry about it, you know something nice. Instead he gets in my face again and says, "All those champions, they make me sick" and he walks away with his entourage. I'm standing there is shock. Years later though I had a good experience with him. He made a donation to a charity event I was putting on, he just sent me a big check not looking for any recognition at all, he really was I guess a nice guy.

You get major REP for that story. I liked it.
JoeyA

 

[JoeyA]

I've seen a lot of old threads being bumped recently and thought I'd give this classic thread a bump.

You did good DP. I missed this thread and enjoyed the stories, especially about Fatty. REP to ya.
JoeyA

 

[alstl]

Putting a tuxedo on a pool player is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog.

 

[stick8]

yep

Good story! They did exhibitions in department stores back then? How cool is that?

yep they sure did , i went to one and watched the "FAT MAN " and "HAMMERING HANK AARON" one rep for brunswick pool and one for rawlings baseball great show wish i had got autgraphs!!!

 

[Island Drive]

I remember when fatty died, and the mayor of Colorado Springs Bob Isacc had a pic of him with Fatty shootin' back in the day. He's probably been with more famous people in his life than Marlin Brando.

 

[JB Cases]

I just re-read this whole thread and near cried.
I really miss OHB. He contributed so much and when things got a little tense, he sure had a calming effect on things.
It isn't bad here at AZ, but it surely isn't the same without him.

Too true. If we want some real high quality threads we should all start bumping Tom Ferry's posts to the top.

RIP Tom, you ans St. Peter are definitely racking them up!!!

 

[androd]

yep they sure did , i went to one and watched the "FAT MAN " and "HAMMERING HANK AARON" one rep for brunswick pool and one for rawlings baseball great show wish i had got autgraphs!!!

FATS was a rep for AMF, it was said his first sale, in his first job, was pool tables to montgomery wards and the first years commission was 6 figures. He put on an exibition in indianapolis at wards while mosconi was down the hill at sears. a young man said FATS, mosconi only has seven people down at sears. FATS said kid, i backed up to make a masse shot and those seven people slid down the hill, till then he had nobody.
PS; i believe that first job was in the late 60's or early 70's.

 

[AnitoKid]

Thanks for sharing the nice stories and all!

*If memory serves me right, I was in the third grade
when I saw a rerun of the Gillette World of Sports TV program.
It featured a segment highlighting two pool players, i.e.,
one was Minnesota Fats and the other I couldn't
remember (possibly Willie Mosconi).

 

[AnitoKid]

I love this thread! And I kid you not
Any more for this great thread?

 

[ironman]

FATS was a rep for AMF, it was said his first sale, in his first job, was pool tables to montgomery wards and the first years commission was 6 figures. He put on an exibition in indianapolis at wards while mosconi was down the hill at sears. a young man said FATS, mosconi only has seven people down at sears. FATS said kid, i backed up to make a masse shot and those seven people slid down the hill, till then he had nobody.
PS; i believe that first job was in the late 60's or early 70's.

Did you ever play Fats, Rodney? I know you were never afraid to match up with any of them.

 

[jay helfert]

Fats referring to Mosconi's appeal, "He couldn't draw flies".
Talking about his travels, "I played with Sultans and Maharajahs, and had dinner with Sheiks in the middle of the Sahara".
When he got done with Richie Florence, "Kid, next time you get some money call me and I'll send you a plane ticket".

 

[vagabond]

Fats referring to Mosconi's appeal, "He couldn't draw flies".
Talking about his travels, "I played with Sultans and Maharajahs, and had dinner with Sheiks in the middle of the Sahara".
When he got done with Richie Florence, "Kid, next time you get some money call me and I'll send you a plane ticket".

I met Fats for the first and last time in the cocktail lounge of Marriott Hotel in Chicago in 1982.We had a good chat. he did not drink any alcohol.In his monologue he mentioned that he was the house guest of Maharajah of Mysore,India and beat him out of lot of money.:grin:

 

[Island Drive]

When I interviewed Evelyn about 6 weeks after Fats passed she told me about the time his new fluzzie/lady friend. She called and "always wanted something" but Evelyn was 'always' one step ahead of her, she learned well, she was always one step behind Fatty, anyhoo. Evelyn asked her? What did Fatty have on his Tombstone, there was a long pause, Evelyn then said too her over the phone..............................PEPPERONI AND CHEESE