New Pool Jargon or I'm getting on a belltower.

[Johnnyt]

Excellent. I try my best to help create interest to the newer players. I help out when I can. I'm not Johnny, but I'm not charging people either. In my "up and coming" days, the good players would never play you "free." You paid in one way or another. It drives me crazy to hear a guy, that plays at a low level, trying to degrade a slightly lesser player by using all of the pool slang and this and that. I don't know. I guess the little things bother me a little too much.

"I'm not Johnny, but I'm not charging either" Your not talking about this Johnny I hope, because if you are someone OWES ME MONEY! Johnnyt

 

[Scott Lee]

Way to go Frank! You are SOOOOO right, and Steve Tipton is the worst offender of them all. He has made up every horrible nickname/moniker on the WPBA tour...all of them atrocious The only one he didn't come up with is Jeanette Lee's "Black Widow"...which also works well for her, and brings her a lot of notoriety. The rest are BS, imo.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

To me thats just part of sports. Each one has its different sayings and
language.

One thing that kills me about pool is how we give or want to give every player a damned nickname. We play pool thats it. There shouldn't be an
Iceman, a Scorpian, or anything else that is menacing.
I don't mind names like Kid Delicious becuase it came to him and stuck.
It seems like I see people always wanting to give a player a nickname. It
should come natural and it doesn't have to be "hard". We play a pretty soft no contact, no weapon, air conditioned sport.
Truthfully wouldn't most pool nicknames be a moniker and not a nickname. To me a nickname is something people call you.

 

[frankncali]

Way to go Frank! You are SOOOOO right, and Steve Tipton is the worst offender of them all. He has made up every horrible nickname/moniker on the WPBA tour...all of them atrocious The only one he didn't come up with is Jeanette Lee's "Black Widow"...which also works well for her, and brings her a lot of notoriety. The rest are BS, imo.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

I don't mind the Black Widow. It fits and she is still Jeanette Lee. Never knew Tipton was doing that. Isn't he retiring?? I wonder who will take his place.