One of these days I'll get there. (Hagerstown)
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Gotcha! Looking forward to meeting you Andy. Nick, don't be rude and forget to introduce us... that is if you'll even remember who I am... darn rum!alinco said:
Timberly said:Gotcha! Looking forward to meeting you Andy. Nick, don't be rude and forget to introduce us... that is if you'll even remember who I am... darn rum!
Timb, don't let Andy's modesty fool you. He does way more than "help Nick & Ceci run the events." He's been part of the Planet Pool team since the beginning. He's logged more hours behind the director's table than I have. Plus, he's the mouthpiece for Planet Pool--he does the write-ups for each event that get published in Inside Pool (although they have been rewriting some our stories as their own of late).
I will introduce you if I recognize you... it would be the first time I see you sober! LOL
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Wish I had a quarter for every time I've heard that!!PrinsNick said:it would be the first time I see you sober! LOL
Timberly said:Wish I had a quarter for every time I've heard that!!
Ha! Now the truth is coming out. I knew that statement could be seen both ways... but I admit, I'm the one who misjudged the kick of the 160 proof Austrian Rum. I think I will be able to spot you in a room full of people though.
ok, i'm getting depressed reading this thread..............
everyone is going to be there and guess where i'll be...........
at a mother's day dance with my gf, a whole 2 weeks or so before mother's day.......
oh well.............who here is going to be at the PP charity event the following weekend???
VAP
everyone is going to be there and guess where i'll be...........
at a mother's day dance with my gf, a whole 2 weeks or so before mother's day.......
oh well.............who here is going to be at the PP charity event the following weekend???
VAP
PrinsNick said:Ha! Now the truth is coming out. I knew that statement could be seen both ways... but I admit, I'm the one who misjudged the kick of the 160 proof Austrian Rum. I think I will be able to spot you in a room full of people though.
Nick, as an aside, I noticed in your sig line that you play with a Ted Harris custom cue, and I'm wondering what characteristic you think is DISTINCTIVE with Ted's cues.
Danny Green has a Ted Harris custom jump stick, and every single player I've seen check Danny's jump stick out wants to buy it from him immediately. He was offered 500 bucks for it not too long ago and turned it down.
I'm just curious about Ted's cues. Of course, I could wait and ask you about it this weekend, but my memory ain't what it used to be.
To stay on topic of the thread, since the $2,000-added PP 9-Ball tournament this coming weekend willl be in Hagerstown, I wonder if Punky will show up. He's an adversary road player from the '80s era who lives/lived [?] in Hagerstown.
JAM
lukeinva said:
i dunno, its a semi formal dance that her church does every year............
all i know is its costing me 16 bucks a pop for me, her, and her mom........
VAP
JAM said:
I believe that he still lives in the area. I know he used to frequent H-town Billiards alot. We really haven't hung there in awhile so I am not positive, but I believe he is still around... at least I haven't heard otherwise, but then again...why would anyone tell me? LMAO!
You're welcome!lukeinva said:I am definatley NOT going now thanks for ruining my weekend!!!! lol
JAM said:Nick, as an aside, I noticed in your sig line that you play with a Ted Harris custom cue, and I'm wondering what characteristic you think is DISTINCTIVE with Ted's cues.
Danny Green has a Ted Harris custom jump stick, and every single player I've seen check Danny's jump stick out wants to buy it from him immediately. He was offered 500 bucks for it not too long ago and turned it down.
When I first came over six or so years ago, Ted's cues were nothing more than glorified sneaky petes; some of them with a second joint for a "jump section," the kind that Danny Green plays with. Those jump-break cues of his sold like hotcakes back then--at about $300 a pop. These days it's a different story.
Ted now makes high-end cues with multiple veneers, ivory inlays, etc. But they are still instanty identifiable as Ted Harris cues; to me anyway. This is primarily because of Ted's love for using exotic-looking woods such as bocote, cocobolo and purple heart, combined with the fact that all his cues have that radial "surgical" pin as a joint. And it is probably those two facts that give his cues a distinctive hit--a little harder and stiffer than most, although my 314 shaft makes it feel totally different.
I've never played with anything else. When I came over, I was playing with a snooker/pool hybrid--a Dufferin housecue shaft on my snooker butt. When Ted made the cue that I am now playing with, I had him make it to specifications as close as possible to that old cue: a very slim butt (like a snooker cue), yet weighted at about 21 oz. Ted had to core the wrap-section with ebony to get the extra weight. It was quite an exceptional job. When he had finished the cue, he didn't like it himself because it was so different, but it has since grown on him--he keeps showing it off to people whenever we run into each other at a tournament. Of course Pooky has been begging me to sell him that cue since he saw it.
(Just for the record: the history of that cue goes back six years, although I have only had it for about two or more. When I first came over I lived in Salisbury, MD. There was this guy Eddie who came in every year around tax return season and lose his entire refund check over the course of a few days or weeks. That year I got the biggest chunk out of it--about $2,800, which I had to share with someone for setting up the action and half-backing me. I took my $1,400 and bought my first American car; a Pontiac LeMans. Every time I pulled up at the poolroom in the car, Eddie would say that I'm driving his car... Anyway, I traded that very same car about a year later for the Custom made Ted Harris.)
PrinsNick said:
I'm going to make it a point to check out your cue this weekend, Nick! That's a great story!
The Pookster wants a new cue stick every time he misses a ball with the one he's shooting with. He must have one big case by now, maybe a couple of cases.
JAM
