In my opinion you should not have banned Fast Larry. We are all adults here, and anyone who cannot put up with a few harsh cracks does not belong on the internet. I've been around poolrooms all my life, and I've heard much worse said to a person's face. Jokes and wisecracks are like a native language to many pool players who have been around the game for a long time.
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Cactus Ed
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Every pool hall should have a Fast Larry, and so should an internet discussion group re pool.
Colorful, opinionated characters are part of pool's sub-culture and a good deal why the game is so endearing to many, including myself.
There is an ignore option here, is there not?
My hunch would be that the Fast one is already being missed. C'mon, you can admit it!
Give him a little time on the sidelines, and bring him back.
P.S. for the gentleman who thought maybe I was new to internet discussion groups, I've been around for years.
Colorful, opinionated characters are part of pool's sub-culture and a good deal why the game is so endearing to many, including myself.
There is an ignore option here, is there not?
My hunch would be that the Fast one is already being missed. C'mon, you can admit it!
Give him a little time on the sidelines, and bring him back.
P.S. for the gentleman who thought maybe I was new to internet discussion groups, I've been around for years.
pro-player said:
You really don't know if we are all adults here or not. You do not have to be 21 to use the internet.
Also, just because some one is an adult, it doesn't mean that they should be open to unjustified abuse.
It is obvious that Larry has a problem. He has been banned from more than this message board. Some day, if he sorts himself out, and can prove it to Mike, maybe he will be allowed back.
That decision is purely up to Mike and I would respect his decision, either way.
JMHO
Rich R.
Bruin,
I got mine in before you! LOL You're not personally attacking me are you? LMAO
FL can certainly come back on this forum with a new name and IP address, but if he does, he'll know what he can and can't do. I hear a lot of talk about how crazy some of the other pool forums are and I think Mike is doing a great job ensuring this one doesn't follow suit and I appreciate it.
I got mine in before you! LOL You're not personally attacking me are you? LMAO
FL can certainly come back on this forum with a new name and IP address, but if he does, he'll know what he can and can't do. I hear a lot of talk about how crazy some of the other pool forums are and I think Mike is doing a great job ensuring this one doesn't follow suit and I appreciate it.
I've never been in any word wars with Larry and don't participate on the ccb board. I had finally had Larry on my ignore list and things were better (except for quoted material). I could almost tolerate Larry, his views, and his posts (both good & bad) if he were limited to 25 words or less. I commend your decision. The world (and AzB) will go on with or without him... imo
Doug
Doug
I guess I treaded on the line there in the Mosconi post, but Larry just hops right into discussions by insulting people right off the bat. It got old. I regret having never read his last reply to me, however, because now I don't know if he was actually going to play me! 
Oh well, I apologize if I got out of line, Mike.
Oh well, I apologize if I got out of line, Mike.
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Cactus Ed
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So did I.
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H. Danielson
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Great decision Mike to delete "Fast" Larry from the forum. I have to admit he was at times informing and mildly entertaining..but like they say "everybody's got a leak in them" and Fast really had an axe to grind. The final straw for me was when he started saying all those nasty things about past legends of the game ... many of them who are deceased...referring to them as bums, deadbeats, alcoholics, etc, etc. These type of comments are totally inappropriate on any forum. He always seemed to work his way into the story like all these players were his best friends at one time. I have never met "Fast", or seen his trick shot show, but I hear his dog does all the difficult shots for him. Thanks Mike for showing everyone this Forum has the best standards of any billiard forum on the internet.
When the overseers, also known as Big Brother or The Man, decide who can and cannot speak out; and when they decide what the people will be allowed to read what is the result?
Controversy is lessened, and the party line is strengthened. Opposing viewpoints with whatever merits they may contain go unexpressed. Diversity suffers, and the best thinkers and writers are driven underground or rendered ineffective.
The readers are coddled, yielding a more pleasant experience in a way; but they are not challenged to enhance independent thinking and develop their own skills of debate and rebuttal. This is considered an important side benefit by those who would seek to control the collective.
The spark that eggs men on to greater heights is extinguished. While many of the posters then enjoy relative comfort and tranquility, they are almost imperceptibly drawn into mediocrity. The overseers seek to maintain a relaxed complacency. A mild malaise where it is hard to put one's finger on why the board lacks vigor is tolerable to the Party hardliners and insiders. In this state, most of the power to shape thought remains in the hands of the overseers, who can then more easily sway the evermore somnolent masses to their own views.
Then they burn the libraries. The libraries are burning.
Controversy is lessened, and the party line is strengthened. Opposing viewpoints with whatever merits they may contain go unexpressed. Diversity suffers, and the best thinkers and writers are driven underground or rendered ineffective.
The readers are coddled, yielding a more pleasant experience in a way; but they are not challenged to enhance independent thinking and develop their own skills of debate and rebuttal. This is considered an important side benefit by those who would seek to control the collective.
The spark that eggs men on to greater heights is extinguished. While many of the posters then enjoy relative comfort and tranquility, they are almost imperceptibly drawn into mediocrity. The overseers seek to maintain a relaxed complacency. A mild malaise where it is hard to put one's finger on why the board lacks vigor is tolerable to the Party hardliners and insiders. In this state, most of the power to shape thought remains in the hands of the overseers, who can then more easily sway the evermore somnolent masses to their own views.
Then they burn the libraries. The libraries are burning.
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Cactus Ed
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What a post. Wow.
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rackmup
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efirkey said:
Amen.
Regards,
Ken
yappingwolf
Information cited from 'on the rack' magazine regarding fastlarry is incorrect. Rossman wrote a letter refuting this data and was not able to get this data pulled from this magazine.
YW posted this same inaccurate date on another pool forum, the inaccuracy of that data on fl was posted there, but again yw has posted this inaccurate data again.
Go read the posts of this person. You will see that all of them relate to either insulting me or insulting FL on this board. Most of this person's posts on other boards contain similar content.
While this person has insulted me in the past, I am not nearly as vulnerable of a target overall as FL. I did ask ccb to shut this person down and ask for help from other ccbers. Perhaps this was a mistake, but I do not see this person as having any other agenda than to attack others.
The thing is, YW is not crude and does not curse, so these attacks are suble and iMO are not picked up by many who read them.
I do not have a reputation in pool to protect, not does it bother me particularly is someone says i cannot run three balls, so YW name is an attack on me for talking too much. This is how the name was first formed due to my many posts.
It is my opinion that regardless of what anyone thinks of FL, YW attack on his reputation is deplorable.
Go read the posts. Find anything constructive. Find any post that is not insulting or an attempt to entrap FL in some way or subtly insulting me on ocassion.
Mike, you kicked Larry off for his insulting behavior. I do not blame you, but at least he is a real person.
YW is an anon, a stalker,that posted that s/he lived in a town that she or he does not live in , posted FL DOB, and other attempts to either demonstrate knowlege of his private info or attempts to make him look bad and entrapment.
Mike, this YW goes from forum to forum posting the same stuff about him, attempting to drag down his rep, stirring up as many people as he or she can and attempting to destroy this man. He has been kicked off of AZ. To allow her or he to continue to use this forum to further damage this man, in my opinion would be reprehensible, deplorable and cruel.
This is not the az I have known for the time that I have been surfing your site.
Laura
Information cited from 'on the rack' magazine regarding fastlarry is incorrect. Rossman wrote a letter refuting this data and was not able to get this data pulled from this magazine.
YW posted this same inaccurate date on another pool forum, the inaccuracy of that data on fl was posted there, but again yw has posted this inaccurate data again.
Go read the posts of this person. You will see that all of them relate to either insulting me or insulting FL on this board. Most of this person's posts on other boards contain similar content.
While this person has insulted me in the past, I am not nearly as vulnerable of a target overall as FL. I did ask ccb to shut this person down and ask for help from other ccbers. Perhaps this was a mistake, but I do not see this person as having any other agenda than to attack others.
The thing is, YW is not crude and does not curse, so these attacks are suble and iMO are not picked up by many who read them.
I do not have a reputation in pool to protect, not does it bother me particularly is someone says i cannot run three balls, so YW name is an attack on me for talking too much. This is how the name was first formed due to my many posts.
It is my opinion that regardless of what anyone thinks of FL, YW attack on his reputation is deplorable.
Go read the posts. Find anything constructive. Find any post that is not insulting or an attempt to entrap FL in some way or subtly insulting me on ocassion.
Mike, you kicked Larry off for his insulting behavior. I do not blame you, but at least he is a real person.
YW is an anon, a stalker,that posted that s/he lived in a town that she or he does not live in , posted FL DOB, and other attempts to either demonstrate knowlege of his private info or attempts to make him look bad and entrapment.
Mike, this YW goes from forum to forum posting the same stuff about him, attempting to drag down his rep, stirring up as many people as he or she can and attempting to destroy this man. He has been kicked off of AZ. To allow her or he to continue to use this forum to further damage this man, in my opinion would be reprehensible, deplorable and cruel.
This is not the az I have known for the time that I have been surfing your site.
Laura
Apparently some of you have not read the nasty posts from Larry (to me, there was nothing funny about his responses and I have a pretty great sense of humor)......this website should be for the benefit of the game or to help others learn more to improve their own games, not to insult people or their lifestyles.....as far as diversity, with people from all over the US and beyond, you still have diversity, except it is peaceful and not insulting....personally, I interact on this forum for pool information (information about the game not how someone went out after a tough life)......
Good shootin!
Good shootin!
With all of the talk about me being Big Brother and how I am coddling the users, I will most likely unban Larry after things cool down a little bit.
Of course, from looking at the forums and the private messages I have been getting, things are not cooling down very much.
There is a whole big world of pool going on out there right now. Can't we talk about that for just a little while?
Mike
Of course, from looking at the forums and the private messages I have been getting, things are not cooling down very much.
There is a whole big world of pool going on out there right now. Can't we talk about that for just a little while?
Mike