I played in a tournament last weekend. There was an annoying fly that kept landing on the cueball. I asked the bartender if she had a fly swatter. She said no, that flys came with the entry fee. During my next set that flying pest crossed my path during my shot stroke and i missed an easy one. Lost that game but won the match. Finished 2nd overall.
Fly on my balls
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I had that problem once. Then it landed on the head ball in a rack. Needless to say, my break was a little quicker the the fly!
Clean the balls
The fly isn't landing on the cue ball because it wants to play pool. It's attracted by smell to something that got on the balls when handled.
I played in a place not long ago, where they never clean the balls or ball storage racks. Sloppy bartending created a situation where the balls were so dirty they were very sticky to the touch. Consequently, the table rack got so sticky it wouldn't slide on the table!
Please, bartenders and waitresses! Keep the food and drink splashes off the billiard balls, and CLEAN the balls and the racks OCCASIONALLY.
At an upscale where I was house "pro" years ago, we cleaned every rack of balls (34 of them) every day. Clean balls, no flies...
The fly isn't landing on the cue ball because it wants to play pool. It's attracted by smell to something that got on the balls when handled.
I played in a place not long ago, where they never clean the balls or ball storage racks. Sloppy bartending created a situation where the balls were so dirty they were very sticky to the touch. Consequently, the table rack got so sticky it wouldn't slide on the table!
Please, bartenders and waitresses! Keep the food and drink splashes off the billiard balls, and CLEAN the balls and the racks OCCASIONALLY.
At an upscale where I was house "pro" years ago, we cleaned every rack of balls (34 of them) every day. Clean balls, no flies...
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Back in the days of playing under gas lamps, moths and bugs landing on the table during play was pretty common. For example, a moth would venture too close to the flame, scorch himself, and end up dead on your table.
During one famous championship match, a bug landed on the cue ball right as a critical shot was being executed....and the shot was missed...so the player, in his extreme frustration, ran from the building, jumped in the river and drowned himself. ( on purpose)
True story.
During one famous championship match, a bug landed on the cue ball right as a critical shot was being executed....and the shot was missed...so the player, in his extreme frustration, ran from the building, jumped in the river and drowned himself. ( on purpose)
True story.
NOT for the faint of heart...
I'm playing in a tourney last night and while playing a great guy named Lester, as he's about to break he says, "hey check this out, right next to the cue ball there's a tiny piece of dried-up snot on the cloth - it musta came flying outta someone's nose on a hard break. How I know it's snot is look close, there's a small nose hair stuck in it; man these new contacts are GREAT!!"
:shocked:
I didn't want to look.
I just wanted to change tables.
best,
brian kc
I'm playing in a tourney last night and while playing a great guy named Lester, as he's about to break he says, "hey check this out, right next to the cue ball there's a tiny piece of dried-up snot on the cloth - it musta came flying outta someone's nose on a hard break. How I know it's snot is look close, there's a small nose hair stuck in it; man these new contacts are GREAT!!"
:shocked:I didn't want to look.
I just wanted to change tables.
best,
brian kc
Flies walk on dog poop.
Walks on Cue Ball.
You touch Cue Ball.
You eat cheese burger.
Fly laughs at you.
Walks on Cue Ball.
You touch Cue Ball.
You eat cheese burger.
Fly laughs at you.
I'm playing in a tourney last night and while playing a great guy named Lester, as he's about to break he says, "hey check this out, right next to the cue ball there's a tiny piece of dried-up snot on the cloth - it musta came flying outta someone's nose on a hard break. How I know it's snot is look close, there's a small nose hair stuck in it; man these new contacts are GREAT!!"
I didn't want to look.
I just wanted to change tables.
best,
brian kc
:rotflmao1::rotflmao1:Great post!!!!
The snot dropping perp broke the snot out of that rack I bet!!!!!!!!!
During league last year my team mate was shooting and while lined up on his shot and stroking his cue a fly lands right on the cue ball, there for all 8 people to see. I had a hard time waiting to laugh until he abandoned his shot.
A good friend of mine comes up to my shop to play once a week or so and one time when he got here and we were racing to nine in 8_Ball, a fly landed on my cue stick three different times distracting me when I was preparing to shoot at three different shots.
I jokingly accused him of having a trained fly to help him beat me and he admitted it took him three weeks to train that fly to help him. :wink:
I jokingly accused him of having a trained fly to help him beat me and he admitted it took him three weeks to train that fly to help him. :wink:
I thought we had a "somthing about mary " incident here....
"We Got a Bleeder!!!!":yikes:
"We Got a Bleeder!!!!":yikes:
superpanget2
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when I read the title I thought someone's asking why their object ball keeps on flying when they hit it. anyway, watch some money games and see where they play in the philippines, the fly will be the least of your problem 
LOL!!! Fly on my balls, you funny i like it!
There's gotta be some kind of Chinese Proverb about flys on your balls ... no?? Come one guys..... help me out!!
