It’s Time for Pool Sayings ....Again
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"Nice try" Only said by your opponent after you miss!
My all time favorite line - "Shoot pool, not people"
My all time favorite line - "Shoot pool, not people"
Howdy old friend,
Great ones, thanks!
From the recent pictures I’ve seen, life is going perfectly for you!
Will
"What happened?" ~ After an opponents miss
"Same shooter, folks!" ~ After your opponent makes a great shot, only to follow it up by missing a relative hanger.
"You want a spot? Ill take you to the pound and get you a puppy. You can call him anything you like." ~ After being asked for weight
"You know why you missed that shot? There was no pocket where you shot it." ~ Useful when an opponent hits the rail a diamond before the pocket.
"When the man with the money meets the man with the experience, the man with the experience gets the money, and the man with the money gets the experience." ~ Consolation for a sulking opponent who just lost money
"Cheezin for no reason" ~ For when your opponent takes a flier at the money ball
"Oh, there was a reason!" ~ Opponents reply to the above statement.
"Same shooter, folks!" ~ After your opponent makes a great shot, only to follow it up by missing a relative hanger.
"You want a spot? Ill take you to the pound and get you a puppy. You can call him anything you like." ~ After being asked for weight
"You know why you missed that shot? There was no pocket where you shot it." ~ Useful when an opponent hits the rail a diamond before the pocket.
"When the man with the money meets the man with the experience, the man with the experience gets the money, and the man with the money gets the experience." ~ Consolation for a sulking opponent who just lost money
"Cheezin for no reason" ~ For when your opponent takes a flier at the money ball
"Oh, there was a reason!" ~ Opponents reply to the above statement.
Again, great list.
Thoughtful, humorous, insightful.
I particularly chuckled at #24:
Don’t gamble with someone named after a City or a State. :grin:
Will Prout
About speed control:
Shoot hard and sleep in the street.
Never up, never in. (It's from golf and get your mind out of the gutter.)
I'll never shoot soft again (after the nine barely doesn't make it to the pocket on a sloppy shot). Followed by the obnoxious grammarian: "Maybe you meant softly."
Shoot all hard shots hard.
There are six pockets on every table.
Let the good times roll!
Where's the money?
Many of the above were useful in ring games which seem to be a rapidly fading part of the pool experience.
Shoot hard and sleep in the street.
Never up, never in. (It's from golf and get your mind out of the gutter.)
I'll never shoot soft again (after the nine barely doesn't make it to the pocket on a sloppy shot). Followed by the obnoxious grammarian: "Maybe you meant softly."
Shoot all hard shots hard.
There are six pockets on every table.
Let the good times roll!
Where's the money?
Many of the above were useful in ring games which seem to be a rapidly fading part of the pool experience.
He wouldn't bet a wet match. (In the old days people who smoked cigarettes (round tubes of tobacco) used little sticks of cardboard or wood called "matches" to light them. A wet match would not catch fire -- that's what they did, normally -- so it was entirely worthless. Thus a wet match would be about the lowest bet someone could possibly make. I guess they aren't as funny if you have to 'splain them.)
Slim just left town. (This means there is no chance of that thing happening. It is a contraction of the longer version, "You have two chances, slim and none, and Slim just left town.")
You missed that shot? A drunk Girl Scout could have made that if you held her up to the table. (This was from a simpler time when people were allowed to laugh at such jokes.) (Stolen from Byrne's book "McGoorty" and McGoorty may have stolen it from Taberski who probably stole it from de Oro who got it from Collender. I'm tracking down the history now. Where's Glen?)
I just tapped the ball. (while retrieving the three balls I just knocked off the table)
Let him in! He's a member. (as the cue ball rolls towards a pocket) (I find this saying really, really obnoxious, probably because it's used far more often against me than by me.)
Good call. (There was a regular at the PH, now passed, who used to say this when you called a shot that had one chance in 43 billion of going. I think he actually believed they were good calls.)
I would repeat a saying attributed to Ralph Greenleaf by Cue Ball Kelly, but it is much, much worse than the drunk GS saying. It involves the Princess Nai Tai Tai. Ralph and the Princess:
Bob <-- who doesn't mind a little chirping during a game, depending
Slim just left town. (This means there is no chance of that thing happening. It is a contraction of the longer version, "You have two chances, slim and none, and Slim just left town.")
You missed that shot? A drunk Girl Scout could have made that if you held her up to the table. (This was from a simpler time when people were allowed to laugh at such jokes.) (Stolen from Byrne's book "McGoorty" and McGoorty may have stolen it from Taberski who probably stole it from de Oro who got it from Collender. I'm tracking down the history now. Where's Glen?)
I just tapped the ball. (while retrieving the three balls I just knocked off the table)
Let him in! He's a member. (as the cue ball rolls towards a pocket) (I find this saying really, really obnoxious, probably because it's used far more often against me than by me.)
Good call. (There was a regular at the PH, now passed, who used to say this when you called a shot that had one chance in 43 billion of going. I think he actually believed they were good calls.)
I would repeat a saying attributed to Ralph Greenleaf by Cue Ball Kelly, but it is much, much worse than the drunk GS saying. It involves the Princess Nai Tai Tai. Ralph and the Princess:
Bob <-- who doesn't mind a little chirping during a game, depending
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"Spot went home"
"Man Overboard" After an object ball flies off the table. Keith McCready original
"Get your driver's license!" Talking to the cue ball. Keith original
"Take your places" Addressing the balls after a break shot. Keith again
"I raised these balls since they were little bitty marbles" Jersey Red to his opponent
"You wouldn't bet two big dogs could whip one little dog" Cornbread Red
"Man Overboard" After an object ball flies off the table. Keith McCready original
"Get your driver's license!" Talking to the cue ball. Keith original
"Take your places" Addressing the balls after a break shot. Keith again
"I raised these balls since they were little bitty marbles" Jersey Red to his opponent
"You wouldn't bet two big dogs could whip one little dog" Cornbread Red