favorite pool sayings

Snake Plisken said:
When you are trying to see enough of the ball to play a safety or make a good hit, "show me some paint".

I heard it from Jimmy Mataya and have been borrowing that word track ever since.
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I couldnt buy a roll in a bakery shop

this guy cant even spell pool

i hit that like a stoned d**k.....when you hit a shot really bad

at least you left him tough.....when you scratch or miss and leave em an easy shot
 
sayings

I could go on and on of saying used around the pool room' but here just a few'. I'm sure you guys will know how and when there used'
*Holy hangers
*call me butters cuz im on a roll
*winner-winner_chicken-dinner
*what do you want to do for a dollar or two?
*you hit that ball like a baby elephant
*chalk is free
*out of where?
*don't forget to pick up your socks
*shoula banked that three rails
*need new batteries for that cue?
*don't scratch em' he's my friend
*cheddar cheese
*ship it
*rack em
*efern who!
*I got the keys to the bakery
*you bring your soccer shoes? Or*you bring your soccer shorts?
I will stop there for now..
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Rob.M
 
When I over run my shape after a shot....
"I got a stroke like a Gorilla"

"Do you come here often"
 
great thread!

i love the pool room lingo, the sly asides, the veiled barbs. unfortunately i am usually on the receiving end of the caustic comments!

here are a few that my girlfriends and i have heard in the several months we've found ourselves in questionable company.

when i missed a safety and gave up a run-out, one attorney said, 'uh oh, sequential liability.'

when i tried, and failed, to make a difficult shot, i was called 'a frequent diner at the cafeteria of bad choices.' she also noted, 'sunny, you have the permanent optimism of the moderately talented.' (i thanked her for upgrading me to moderately talented!)

i stole a line from "no country for old men" to describe the quality of my own game, 'there is no description of a fool that i fail to satisfy.'

about to choke on the 8-ball, i was told by a helpful pal: 'sunny, you look cardiac-paddle-ready.'

she also said, 'sunny, you know how to do ugly.'

when facing a killer safety, it never hurts to fall back on that dorothy parker line, 'what fresh hell is this?'



sunny
 
iam playing this out of towner one time,in my home room,i make a great shot on the 8 ball playing 9ball,but i couldnt control the q ball so it rolling around and this hillbilly voice speaks up and yells let him in hes a member,this man never said a word all day,and then blurts this out.that still has me laughing.
 
It was around pool where I first heard the phrase "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."

Comment made on a missed shot when the shooter claims he was "close."
 
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when I get out of line on a shot I say"I get out of line more than a fat kid at lunch"
after I shit a ball in I will look at my opponent and say"you have to shoot at the dead ones"
I was staking my best friend one night.we went to a room we had never been to and played a guy even that we were supposed to give the 8.Well we had a bad night(8ft tables,break cloth pad,blue circle cue ball)and I lost about $800.As we were leaving a woman(nice looking)came up to us and said to my friend"you play good" my friend says "thanks" and then she points to the guy we lost to and said"but he plays REAL good"I thought my friend was going to go off on everyone.I still mess with him about that night.
We went back about a month later and beat the guy out of 5k we ended up giving him the 8 and last 2 at the end,but the woman was not there so my friend didn`t get his revenge.
 
I remember my first APA nationals....I was playing a match and was on the hill.
I ended up banking 4 balls and out to win.
My friend told the opposing team, "We call Michell First Union, because she banks everywhere."

Has always stuck with me.
 
Favorite pool sayings

Saturday afternoon and the phone in the pool room rings, half the guys there say "If thats my wife I'm not here!"
 
My first pool room motto "Shoot pool not people"

You couldn't hit the hole if it had hair around it.

After a miss you could say " TheRealKingCobra" must have been here, I was playing for the table roll.
 
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Somewhat related, my favorite lines from The Hustler:

Fats: "Shoot pool, Fast Eddie."

Eddie: "I'm shootin' pool Fats, when I miss you can shoot."

Neatly represents the complete change in character that Eddie underwent, and the complete confidence he finally had at the table that he paid so dearly for.
 
when opponent breaks really good and nothing goes in, I say "your just like Dolly Parton, all bust no balls".
when my opponent says "you got the big balls", I respond "thats what your girlfriend said" Then I run out...the door that is!
 
She knows better

book collector said:
Saturday afternoon and the phone in the pool room rings, half the guys there say "If thats my wife I'm not here!"
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than that...so we would tell the barmaid to tell her that we had just left about 10 minutes ago...which was usually met with...I'm not lying for you!..you tell her.

When we got along..she would call the bar. Later, she would just show up and start yelling at me and my a$$hole buddies. Apparently, I must have told her that I would mow the lawn or something.

Ahhh...those were the days. Pre ex-wife days.
 
After another poorly executed shot..

that hooked the opponent....'Wow-I hit it so bad, it was good.':rolleyes:
 
When someone slops a ball in i tell them "save some of that for the hogs"....also when a player walks in and asks "wheres all the action" I say "at your house" some have a dumb look,some get mad & some start dialing home
 
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"Wait for it!!!... lol"
"I said call pocket not shot >_>"
and after a lucky shot in 9 ball "Sitcho ass down!" as if you meant to make it lol
 
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