Use of the word "stick" in reference to a pool cue

I love funny accents. Love em.

Went to Chicago during the holidays one year and heard a midwesterner say cheerfully, "Yappy Noo Yeer" out of her nose and I burst out laughing. Couldn't help it.

Had a friend from Georgia. We spent a lot of time and effort trying to get him to order ice cream (ice and glass rhyme!) at restaurants, and then we'd just kill ouselves laughing.

Best one was when we went up to the drive through at Taco Bell and he saw the picture of a quesadilla and thought he'd try one:

"Ah'd lak a cheeez quess- ter- diller, pleez." bah hahahaaaa. I laughed so hard I couldn't help him communicate with the totally confused teller- I seriously couldn't breathe.

I don't care what you call a cue. The stranger it is, the better the laugh.
 
A friend of mine married a "Georgia Peach"...I love hearing her talk...the words flow like honey.
 
mm4pool said:
Originally Posted by cheapcues.com
Just wondering if I'm the only one this bothers. I hate it when people use the word "stick" instead of cue. As in. "I'm fixin' to get a new stick, cuz I had to hock my Moochie last year to get me some new tars fer my truck".

I as an obviously undereducated "Southerner" have called them sticks my whole life. I also feel rather fortunate to have such highly superior Northern People who are more than ready and willing to point out my utter and complete failure with the english language. All this time I thought it was proper to say "I'm fixin to whoop yer ass on the pool table" and now I see the error of my ways.

Thank you cheapcues for bringing this to my attention and maybe my feeble redneck southern mind can make the appropriate changes in my speech patterns.

Now I'm leaving work, going home to grab my case of "sticks" and go shoot some pool.

Mike
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Amen Mike

As all of us so eloquently say in the great metroplolis of Vidor Texas " Go grab yer stick boy and come over to this here table, I'm fixin to learn you a thing or two "

Stick , Cue , Pole , pot passer , or meat stabber its all the same thing lol
 
cheapcues.com said:
Just wondering if I'm the only one this bothers. I hate it when people use the word "stick" instead of cue.
**edited as I want to emphasize the use of the word "stick", not the southern accent. People from all parts of the country, even the world use that work regardless of their accent or dialect. I apologize to those I offended.**
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http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/




Hey , what if they pronounce it schtick ?David Lloyd on ESPN pronounces it that way , and pronounces snow , schnow . Kieth Olbermann prounced Steelers (stee-wurs ) and pronounced college (kaw-widge ).



Of course Steeler fans from Western Pennsylvania pronounce it Stillers. I'm glad the are regional dialects , people identify with them and it gives them a sense of place. When i hear someone with a midsouth accent i identify with them.


If i was in a foreign country i would identify with any American dialect . We are all conditioned to a sound , any deviation we notice. I welcome regional sounds , it means we haven't been homogenized into a blob by social engineers and are still free.
 
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