More Than Just A Game

[TheConArtist]

This game of Billiards is more than just a game to me, its my tension reliever when i have stress on my hands, a boredom reliever, a memory maker and a income maker lol. Naw with all that kidding aside people take the game serious and some do not, some are out there to have fun some want to perfect the game to a T, which is me. The whole aspect of the game is beautiful to me, the shot making, position play the luck factor. How one day you have more rolls than a bakery then the next you can't get any to save your life. I have never played a game that made me talk to myself seriously, i can recall times when i would catch myself mumbling on, how i missed that easy shot, what is going on here, take your time cole, etc... Times when i couldn't sleep at nights cause i would be thinking of aiming systems. So its more then just a game to me, its something i would like to have as a career but i know i ain't nowhere near that level yet. There is this Girl man can't remember her name right now but i will get back to you on her name but she was a Prisoner and i think she died in jail but she was a true billiard fan, she even had a pool table in her jail sell, and when she past away she had herself wrapped with the cloth from her pool table, this is me when i leave this world. Wrapped in my pool tables cloth having Werewolves of London playing at the funeral and such LOL, cause its more then just a game.

Note: Does anyone know this girls name, if not i will for shure get back to you guys with the name its somewhere here written down.

 

[Andrew Manning]

This game of Billiards is more than just a game to me, its my tension reliever when i have stress on my hands, a boredom reliever, a memory maker and a income maker lol. Naw with all that kidding aside people take the game serious and some do not, some are out there to have fun some want to perfect the game to a T, which is me. The whole aspect of the game is beautiful to me, the shot making, position play the luck factor. How one day you have more rolls than a bakery then the next you can't get any to save your life. I have never played a game that made me talk to myself seriously, i can recall times when i would catch myself mumbling on, how i missed that easy shot, what is going on here, take your time cole, etc... Times when i couldn't sleep at nights cause i would be thinking of aiming systems. So its more then just a game to me, its something i would like to have as a career but i know i ain't nowhere near that level yet. There is this Girl man can't remember her name right now but i will get back to you on her name but she was a Prisoner and i think she died in jail but she was a true billiard fan, she even had a pool table in her jail sell, and when she past away she had herself wrapped with the cloth from her pool table, this is me when i leave this world. Wrapped in my pool tables cloth having Werewolves of London playing at the funeral and such LOL, cause its more then just a game.

Note: Does anyone know this girls name, if not i will for shure get back to you guys with the name its somewhere here written down.

I think you're referring to Francois Mingaud, inventor of the leather tip. He was imprisoned during the french revolution, but allowed a billiards table in his cell. He revolutionized the game by being the first to use a rounded leather tip to generate spin and enable advanced cue-ball control.

-Andrew

 

[CaptainHook]

I think you're referring to Francois Mingaud, inventor of the leather tip. He was imprisoned during the french revolution, but allowed a billiards table in his cell. He revolutionized the game by being the first to use a rounded leather tip to generate spin and enable advanced cue-ball control.

-Andrew

History of the Cue, Billiard digest April 1997
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circa 1600: The Cuestick is introduced in Europe.
circa 1750: Charles Boulle makes Marquetry cues for french monarchs.
circa 1768: Cues manufactured in Virginia are exported as far as Boston.
circa 1785: The Jeffrey, a cue with it's end cut at an angle, is introduced.
circa 1789: The end of the cue shaft is rounded, but still tipless.
circa 1800: Chalk is applied to tipless cues to apply friction.
circa 1818: Francios Mingaud invents the Leather cue tip.
1828-33 : Thurston's sells Blue chalk & double layer tips, jointed cues
and balanced weighted cues.
circa 1860: Metal screw introduced.
circa 1875: Albert Garnier rubs beeswax on cue butt to improve grip.
circa 1880: Cloth wraps introduced to Europe.
1894 : Herman Rambow begins working for Brunswick as a mail runner.
1895 : "Irish Linen Fishing Line" introduced as wrap.
1925 : Rambow receives patent for a cue with adjustable balance point.
1940 : Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. introduces "Willie Hoppe"
model with brass to brass joint.
1925-88 : Harvey Martin, Frank Paradise, George Balabushka and Gus
Zamboti and many others elevate custom cue design.
1965-present: Companies start mass producing cues such as Mcdermott, Meucci, Mali, Viking, Huebler and many others.
1986 : Balabushka cue featured in Color of Money motion picture.
1992 : American Cuemakers Association founded.
1994 : Robot used for R&D for Predator cue.
1995 : First showcase of American Cue art opens in L.A.
1996 : Thomas Wayne cue sells for $103,000.

 

[bud green]

Mingaud wanted to stay in prison so he could continue to work on his billiard game.

I think it was Mary, Queen of Scots, who may have been buried wrapped in billiard cloth.

 

[Snapshot9]

Well ....

Pool is not a matter of life and death, it is far more important than that ...lol

 

[DaveK]

Mingaud wanted to stay in prison so he could continue to work on his billiard game.

I think it was Mary, Queen of Scots, who may have been buried wrapped in billiard cloth.

That would be my guess, Mary Queen of Scotts. Of course they took her table away in the middle of her stay at the Tower of London, which pissed her off thoroughly I'm sure. The final staw was when they cut off her head, but I'm not sure which act disappointed her more.

Regarding TheConArtists comment "I have never played a game that made me talk to myself seriously", you should take up golf That way you'll have two games that make you talk to yourself !

Dave

 

[ScottW]

Going off-topic here... har...

Talking about the Tower of London and how prisoners were treated there - there's an excellent fictional series of books that I just read that deals largely with London in the late 1600s/early 1700s that deals with this subject at times. It's the "Baroque Cycle" series by Neal Stephenson - "Quicksilver", "The Confusion", and "The System of the World". This trilogy is a prequel to his previous book, "Cryptonomicon".

Granted, the trilogy is fiction, but it's drawn largely from historical fact, just... skewed a bit. Excellent books - I highly recommend them. (Read "Cryptonomicon" first, though.)