brownjam612
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Does anyone know why the area on a pool table called "the kitchen" is called the kitchen?
The Kitchen
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My Encyclopedia of Billiards says that early on, people did not have a separate billiard room, would have a combination pool table/dining table and would place their table in their dining room.
And to get more room for breaking, they would place the head end of the pool table facing toward the kitchen. So when you were breaking, you would really be in the kitchen.
Here are some combination pool table/dining room tables...
http://www.billiards.co.uk/contbl.html
And to get more room for breaking, they would place the head end of the pool table facing toward the kitchen. So when you were breaking, you would really be in the kitchen.
Here are some combination pool table/dining room tables...
http://www.billiards.co.uk/contbl.html
Billy_Bob said:
Brings to mind the old "Beverly Hillbillys" TV show. With the fancy dining table with the glassholders (pockets) and the pot reaching sticks (cues). Weellll doggies!
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Don't forget the after dinner swim in the concrete pond.catscradle said:
brownjam612 said:
Because, ……that’s the best position to be in when frying fish.
Actually the cues were "pot passers." Does anyone remember the episode with Charley Ruggles playing the Boston socialite (who was really a broke con man in disguise). He wrangles a big money game with Jed (who has never played pool before). Jed waxes Charlie. Charlie accuses Jed of lying about never playing before, and Jed responds that he has never played, but pool is a good deal like "ricochet shooting" (which Jed had been doing earlier in the episode, shooting the bullet off a rock into the bullseye of a target far away).
When I was in graduate school, I would come home every day and watch the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres re-runs with my dad, we would laugh like a couple of 3rd graders - I have no idea why (though there was occasionally alcohol involved).
When I was in graduate school, I would come home every day and watch the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres re-runs with my dad, we would laugh like a couple of 3rd graders - I have no idea why (though there was occasionally alcohol involved).
Williebetmore said:
It's for the classics ...
Jethro and Jed standing at the beach (the Pacific in LA I would guess) :
Jethro, poining out to sea "Uncle Jed, 2000 miles thata way is Hywyin Islands ... 4 thousand miles thataway is JAaaapan ... and 6000 miles a thataway is Awstrailya ..."
Jed, gazing across the water " Mmmmmdogie you gots good eyes boy !"
Or maybe it's Ellie May
Dave
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I'm so glad I didn't grow up in the south... 
Though being here so long, I'm stuck with the accent
Though being here so long, I'm stuck with the accent
I thought they used the pockets for chicken bone receptacles. It has been a long time tough, and you may be right.catscradle said:
Tracy
Yes "It has been a long time" and I was wrong about the "pot passers" so actually "you may be right".RSB-Refugee said:
Either way, it was an awfully good show.
That may also explain why I have a Sardo apron....I could never figure out what it had to do with pool.sjm said:
RSB-Refugee said:
You are correct
I find this thread particularly intresting because in the ten years that I have been servicing pool tables (residentially and commercially) I have never heard this term.
Learing all the time
Learing all the time