It's CYCLOP, not Cyclops!!!!!!
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I think it's annoying when someone says felt, but I don't go making threads about it.
Honestly, I don't care what people call them: Cyclops or Cyclop. I have yet to find anywhere in Louisiana that uses them, so there is a good chance I never will have to use them. To contribute to this thread, however, I still call them Skittles balls.
In the hopes of continued clairification, Cyclop balls also come in regular traditional colors. The surface feel exactly the same as the Cyclop TV set (a little more frictiony than Aramith). The cueball is tough to play with. It glows.
But, they're balls. They go in. Sometimes.
Freddie <~~~ not on TV
PLURAL MORE THAN ONE. .......strain at the knat you might caught him
Quite frankly those that hate the product also enjoy directing additional disrespect by making a joke about the stupid name. Everyone knows the proper spelling but no one cares. I have a set of these balls and except for the cool colors I hate the way they play and some balls don't even roll true. And they react funny when using a red circle cue ball. And lastly, the measle ball is a joke and so is the Cyclop cue ball.
The weird thing is that it is obviously named after the mythological Greek being a "Cyclops". Cyclops is singular. Cyclopes is the plural. Supposedly the word means "round eye" or "circle eye". Makes sense, and clearly what the manufacturers were shooting for. So although I have nothing against Cyclop balls, it would appear that spelling correctly is another possibly complaint one could levy against the manufacturer.
KMRUNOUT
KMRUNOUT
You do realize you are talking to a demographic that for 50 years has
called them AdamS Cues.
Dale
Well this thread escalated quickly.
And they also think that the opposite of "win" is "loose".
I enjoy playing with my Shawn cue, better than a Moochi.
I can just imagine the board meeting before the launch of these balls:
R&D guy: We've found a way to make top quality balls with a higher phenolic resin content than all others, which means that they will play more true than other brands!
CEO: That's great, how will we market them?
R&D: Not my field, but we could maybe sponsor some tournaments?
CEO: Great, but we must make balls with distinct colors that will set them apart from other brands, here are some suggestions based on colors that I like.
R&D: But sir, these light green balls will be nearly invisible on green cloth and the light blue ones will be hard to spot on the prevalent blue cloths! Besides remember when the Aramith balls came out with the tv colors and the commentators and fans were all confused? Some old farts still can't get it right!
CEO: Sorry, that's my decision and I'm sticking with it!
R&D: Can we at least make the cueball plain white or have a small discrete spot on it or something? I never liked the aramith measle ball, this is our chance to bring back the nice classic look.
CEO: Nope. Aramith got the measle angle covered and people need to know that this is our ballset. Let's make a huge gaudy logo. I've got it, let's make it an eye and let's call the ball set "Cyclop balls"! That will be an awesome, sexy name.
R&D: With all due respect, sir, those ideas are terrible. The large logos made the cueball roll off in testing and that name it's sooo cheesy. People will automatically think of the private parts of mythical beings whenever they see the brand name.
CEO: You're fired!
R&D: Thank God!
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JC
Coos Cues
Can't resist!
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