favorite pool sayings

Here one that I unfortunately use LOTS: "Too much leave and not enough shot" (after duffing a shot but getting a picture perfect leave for the next ball that I don't get to shoot at) :mad:
 
Once when I was whining about my opponent lucking balls, my mentor Don Wrenn looked at me and said.
"No one ever lucked a ball on me from their chair"

When you luck a ball say that was the only way I could get shape!

I say this sometimes before I even shoot. " I hate to show this one" But its better after you piss a ball!
 
sunnyone said:
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
Click to expand...

Those are all awesome. I just wish I could possibly remember any of them for use when I needed them.... :rolleyes:
 
another for fun..

A friend once asked to use my cue during a tournament. I told him it wasn't like his, mine was an automatic and he didn't need to switch gears with mine, it does it on its own!!:grin:
 
another for fun..

A friend once asked to use my cue during a tournament. I told him it wasn't like his, mine was an automatic and he didn't need to switch gears with mine, it does it on its own!!:grin:
 
Lingo

After winning or losing a good match. "The final score doesn't always reflect the quality of play" When the object ball runs out of gas."Hit it Alice" When missing a very difficult shot. "I could have made it if I wanted to." When opp. slops one in. "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then" In team play when a team member dogs a shot badly, no words, but all teamates point with two fingers to their eyes.
 
A simple shot is sometimes called a "duck." A guy I played years ago in Philadelphia, after I missed a shot in 14.1 and left him a wide open table, commented "Looks like duck hunting season." I haven't heard anyone use this terminology since.
 
After slopping in a shot, I say with baritone authority:

"How else am I gonna make it?"

Throws 'em off their game every time.
 
Favorite pool sayings

sunnyone said:
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
Click to expand...

I was once abducted by aliens and they used this type of language when they played pool. {coincidence?}
 
Johnny Archer

My favorite is someone asked Johnny why he spent so much time checking the rack he said"they was touchin but they wasn't frozen."
 
in baltimore instead of calling players bangers we call em blasters!(blasting the 9 or rideing the 9).i hit it so bad i hit it good.tinman,heartless.
 
When I see someone banging balls around and missing alot I'll tell them to "stop hitting the balls like they owe you money and you might make one." Another one I heard the other day, I was playing an older fella and he broke and ran all his balls but missed the eight. I made one ball and played safe. When he missed again he looked at me and said "Get your kids out of my sandbox!"
 
the best quote i ever heard, was at a joss tourney in connecticut. billy the kid was watching someone play, and they had to make a long draw shot. the guy shot the ball and stopped the cue ball instead of drawing back, and across the room billy yells out, "ive seen better strokes in the hospital."
 
ECPT said:
the best quote i ever heard, was at a joss tourney in connecticut. billy the kid was watching someone play, and they had to make a long draw shot. the guy shot the ball and stopped the cue ball instead of drawing back, and across the room billy yells out, "ive seen better strokes in the hospital."
Click to expand...

That's funny..heard Hunter L. quote one last nite " someone once said : the guy's got a million dollar stroke and a 10 cent eye. "
 
One saying that I started years ago was, "Belly-up to the table like a man". :grin:

This saying was started when I got tired of hearing a particular player pleading with me for weight, when he didn't need it. The saying of course means, "You should play a match with me without asking for weight".

These type of saying come back to haunt you though, because when a better player than me like Dippy Dave hears me begging for weight from another better player, they always yell out on the sidelines, "Belly up to the table like a man". :o Yeah, it's kind of embarassing when you have to ask for weight and the whole pool room knows you have used that saying.

Last night I played in another local monthly pool tournament and went two and out and an 18 year old young man was begging me for weight playing nine ball which I can't play very well and I was tempted to tell him that saying but he was with another TOP player and I knew it would come back to bite me on the arse so I just said, "We should play even-up the first time, and if I should win some decent money from you, I will consider giving you some weight the next time we play". :smile: (I know the better player has put the newbie under his wing and he will be slaying dragons before long).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top