It's not a "Stick".....

galipeau

galipeau

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For God's Sake, I hate hearing pool cues called "Sticks". If you're new to pool, I get it, but it's especially bad when someone who's been around the game, or even builds cues calls it a "stick". It's a purpose built instrument. It's a tool, an implement, an extension of your arm. It's not some broken branch you found on the ground. People who call pool cues, "sticks" should be limited to playing bumper pool. No 8, 9, 10 ball, 1p, or 14.1 for you. I know many of you will disagree, but I had to get this minor rant off my chest... Thanks for listening.
 
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Sticks and balls are used in a lot of games.

Cues and balls are used in some sports.


For real, they are just fancy sticks that some people call cues.


No sport...just a game played with sticks and sometimes chicks.:eek:
 
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galipeau said:
For God's Sake, I hate hearing pool cues called "Sticks". If you're new to pool, I get it, but it's especially bad when someone who's been around the game, or even builds cues calls it a "stick". It's a purpose built instrument. It's a tool, an implement, an extension of your arm. It's not some broken branch you found on the ground. People who call pool cues, "sticks" should be limited to playing bumper pool. No 8, 9, 10 ball, 1p, or 14.1 for you. I know many of you will disagree, but I had to get this minor rant off my chest... Thanks for listening.
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Let me grab my stick and lets play.... i guess we all know how to shark you now....
 
The balls are purpose built, also.

Shall we start calling them 'Phenolic, identified-numerically, colored spheres'? We could call them 'PhINCS' (phonetically 'finks') instead.

It isn't a 'tip', it's a 'Pressed leather impact device' or 'Plid' for short.

Stop calling it 'chalk', call it 'Friction uniformity cube' or 'fuc' for short.
 
I am of almost the exact opposite opinion. I do prefer the proper term "cue", but I hate it when some guy goes nuts with trying to equate some pieces of wood skillfully glued together with the pinnacles of human achievement...It's not a bloody instrument, it is in fact more or less a pointed stick with a piece of leather glued to it. If a person has the skills, he could play well with a broomstick without the leather, even. The layani or uni-lock joint is the closest the cue has gotten to an actual real piece of engineering, along with some of the spliced shafts.

Cuemaking takes skill and craftsmanship, but please, it's not quantum physics and nobody's doing any favors trying to pass it off as such. Some of the best cues for snooker, for instance is almost entirely hand made, and they play great, much better than most machine made cues for that game. In fact I much prefer the one piece, spliced cues that are hand tapered for their balance and overall playability. If a cue would be properly made like that for US cues, I'm sure it would blow a lot of high end cues out of the water as far as feedback and playability, but it's just to impractical and has too little flash to do well in th US market.
 
According to Wikipedia, the term for a cue from the 16th to early 19th century was "billiard stick", or "baton de billard".
A lot of the time I call my Schon a miserable piece of shit, or "miserabe morceau de merde". :smile:
 
From Merriam Webster, "Instrument: a tool or device used for a particular purpose; especially : a tool or device designed to do careful and exact work"

Billiards qualifies as careful and exact work in my book.
 
asianevil said:
Let me grab my stick and lets play.... i guess we all know how to shark you now....
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I'm in Oakland. If you ever want a game, I'll play you some cheap 1 pocket. Come find me and don't forget to bring your "Stick". :grin:
 
Not going to lie, it drives me a little crazy too lol. I see it a lot on craigslist and it normally entices me to click on it because they probably don't know what they have. I did run across one that was listed as a pool queue which was pretty funny too.
 
stop calling it a sport
fat guys dont compete in many sports
unless its a fight
kickboxing mma etc fat guys compete in those
and football but they dont do much
and baseball
.....:)
 
galipeau said:
For God's Sake, I hate hearing pool cues called "Sticks". If you're new to pool, I get it, but it's especially bad when someone who's been around the game, or even builds cues calls it a "stick". It's a purpose built instrument. It's a tool, an implement, an extension of your arm. It's not some broken branch you found on the ground. People who call pool cues, "sticks" should be limited to playing bumper pool. No 8, 9, 10 ball, 1p, or 14.1 for you. I know many of you will disagree, but I had to get this minor rant off my chest... Thanks for listening.
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I am having a hard time finding any definition of cue that does not describe it as a "Long tapered stick for playing games like pool, snooker, and billiards".
It seems to be the accepted and correct word use.

Having said that, one thing that does bother me is when cue makers refers to finishing their cues as "Painting them". Dennis Searing always says that and it makes me cringe. I just get this image in my mind of painting a cue with spray paint.
 
You know what I hate? When people Say "Vegas", it's Las Vegas

So if a cue dealer carries around his stock in a back pack case, could one say he has a faggot on his back?
 
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beneath_the_sur said:
stop calling it a sport
fat guys dont compete in many sports
unless its a fight
kickboxing mma etc fat guys compete in those
and football but they dont do much
and baseball
.....:)
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I see that someone here catches my drift... For those who didn't, I was being facetious when I wrote my original post. :wink:
 
beneath_the_sur said:
stop calling it a sport
fat guys dont compete in many sports
unless its a fight
kickboxing mma etc fat guys compete in those
and football but they dont do much
and baseball
.....:)
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Eventually "esports" will be part of the Olympics, then can we call pool a sport? :)
 
ceebee said:
My Guido Orlandi masterpiece ain't no stick or Pool Cue.. it is a Magic Wand
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Most folks aren't aware of the quality craftsmanship Guido puts into his Cues.
We used to "talk cues" for hours on end at various tournaments where he
performed myriad repairs, tips, & re-wraps. Please show us your Guido Cue.

As for proper terminology: When playing Pool with my Mexican
friends, I generally refer to my Cue as a "Taco". I also say "stick"
from time to time and refer to my Muscle Cars as "Rides".
 
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