Nicknames???

The kind of guy

jay helfert said:
A famous Fat's quote, "The only trophies I want are the ones with pictures of Presidents on them". That pretty much says it all.
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I'm sure he was the kind of guy that keeps me hanging out in the poolroom. I play just good enough to take a little spot and play good players, and give weight to most around the Carolinas (general players). I am sure I would have loved this Character. Combination "Little Tony" and Bucktooth. Always talking about the "cheese" I heard.
 
crawfish said:
I'm sure he was the kind of guy that keeps me hanging out in the poolroom. I play just good enough to take a little spot and play good players, and give weight to most around the Carolinas (general players). I am sure I would have loved this Character. Combination "Little Tony" and Bucktooth. Always talking about the "cheese" I heard.
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Except he said "The CHEEEsssss". No one could say that word like Fats.
 
Afraid to open his mouth

crawfish said:
When I was at East Carolina, Whimpy used to come to Greenville and BS with some of the folks. Very modest, EXCEPT when it came to the Fat man. He got "fired up" if you will. He really had contempt for the Fats. And... from what he quoted me, he would play Fats in anything, one hole included. He said he once offered him a ball in "any" game, and ten to a hundred in 14.1. Now, I can only go by what I was told by the man himself. Whether this was true or not, I'll never know. He did say, though, that Fats was in the top one hundred for their time. I think he was saying this as a slam, though.
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An excerpt from my book Banking With The Beard:

Fats used to get me to authenicate whatever bull he was spreading.
Naturally, I never had the balls to dispute him and I would always meekly agree with whatever nonsense he was feeding the fold. I have never figured how Fats could get everybody to second his bullsh*t.
At Johnston City, he even got the great Luther "Wimpy" Lassiter to admit that he had once sh*t all over himself because Fatty had beaten him so badly. Fats asserted that "Wimpy's" backer had to take him to the Army-Navy store that was next door to get him a whole new outfit. He even got "Wimpy" to say he had sh*t into his shoes. "Wimpy" probably thought that if he disputed Fatty, Fats would say something worse— what could be worse, I can't imagine— but Wimpy just took his medicine and hoped Fatty would go to work on somebody else.

the Beard
 
crawfish said:
That's just plain out hard to believe. Wow.
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You just had to know Fatty. His conversation was relentless. And if you matched up with him, you were in serious jeopardy of going on "E". Wimpy, Shrimpy, no one was in a hurry to play pool with the Fat man. I saw more than a few champions duck a game with him.

Fats would walk right into their midst and start talking his sh-t. He'd look right at some great player and say something like "Whadda youuuuu wannnaa dooo, Short man?", referring to Boston Shorty. Or "Got any money today Redbird?", addressing Jersey Red. And they would all laugh, and not budge. If they talked back, he might hit 'em with "We can play some more, jusss' like lassss' time." However that was, it was usually the end of the conversation.

I caught his act, and he WAS the greatest!
 
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