Welcome Johnny, I like your user name it reminds me of South America.
While I was stationed in Honduras in the 1980's I use to eat allot of the local food. When I returned to USA, I started losing weight so I went to hospital and I was diagnosed with a tape worm. They gave me some medicine, a sample bottle and told me that in a few days I would pass the worm. Well like they said a couple days later the worm came out, the dam thing was around 7 inches long. Your user name brought back this memory, and if you don't mind me asking how did you choose your user name?
Well anyway, welcome and I hope you enjoy the forum there is not a better place to gain Pool and Billiards information.
Welcome
Well I'm going to try to make a long story shorter ( at least as short as the story will allow ).
I'm a tattoo artist. Years ago there was a guy that would come in to my shop continually, bugging me to cover up his tattoo. He had a little tattoo when he was young and years later someone else made it in to a half sleeve (from the elbow to the wrist). It was a very good tattoo but because the initial piece was so much older, it would never live up to the rest of the overall tattoo.
He let it bug him so much that he would visit all of the area tattoo shops (regularly) asking us to cover up that small section. Everyone told him the same thing that I told him. No, it will ruin a perfectly good half sleeve. This went on for months.
One day some douche bag agreed to cover up that section. Of course it didn't work very well so they went on to another cover up. Over and over until half of this guys lower arm was solid black.
That is just the beginning of the story. He needed three years of continual laser surgery just to lighten that black so it could be covered up with a full sleeve. It was a terribly expensive and painful process. He became very depressed and almost like a different person.
Near the end of his laser treatments (when the end was in sight) he made t-shirts for all of us that refused to do his initial cover up and supported him through his darkest hour. The t-shirts were something to do with Laser Tattoo Removal (Smell the pain) on the back and a very simple F.T.W. on the front. F.T.W. (for those who don't know) is an old biker tattoo that implies **** The World. Like I said, this guy was a wreck at that time and I'm sure that's exactly how he felt. I can't blame him.
One day while hanging out with my family, I happened to be wearing that t-shirt. I've got 20 nieces and nephews and they all wanted to know what F.T.W. meant so I started making stuff up (****, in my family is not acceptable language). Feed The Worm kind of stuck. My friends are always cracking jokes about me having a tape worm. I'm relatively thin but I can eat like you wouldn't believe.
Anybody want to have an eating contest?
Johnny
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