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The current bid for these antique balls is $742! What's the history behind these peculiar balls?
I shouldn't be telling you this but these particular balls have significant historical value. During the Battle of Bunker Hill, (also the location of the ACME pool ball company), the revolutionary force was getting their asses handed to them. It was a terrible battle it seemed all was lost when their ammunition began to run out.
Harry Jones of the 10th Calvery Brigade saw the ACME factory and remembered his Zulu hand to hand training. He attached 3 balls to ropes tied as "T" and began launching them at the British. He took out 14 Redcoats before they aimed every cannon at him and blew him to bits. When he died, his collegues said "Boy, he had some balls", hence the beginning of a new catch phrase.
This story still warms my heart.
Harry Jones of the 10th Calvery Brigade saw the ACME factory and remembered his Zulu hand to hand training. He attached 3 balls to ropes tied as "T" and began launching them at the British. He took out 14 Redcoats before they aimed every cannon at him and blew him to bits. When he died, his collegues said "Boy, he had some balls", hence the beginning of a new catch phrase.
This story still warms my heart.
Poker Pocket Billiards. Here is the start of the rules from 1914:
GAME OF POKER POCKET BILLIARDS
Played with Lettered Balls on a Six-Pocket Table
Rules
Set the balls up with 16-ball triangle, and see that the centre of the bunch is over the black spot at the lower end of the table on a line between the 2d diamonds from the foot of the table.
The set consists of 17 balls as follows: four each A, K, Q, J, representing four Aces, four Kings, four Queens and four Jacks. A white ball is used as a play-ball. .....
Played with Lettered Balls on a Six-Pocket Table
Rules
Set the balls up with 16-ball triangle, and see that the centre of the bunch is over the black spot at the lower end of the table on a line between the 2d diamonds from the foot of the table.
The set consists of 17 balls as follows: four each A, K, Q, J, representing four Aces, four Kings, four Queens and four Jacks. A white ball is used as a play-ball. .....
See item 27 on this page for the rest of the rules: http://www.sfbilliards.com/misc.htm
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Hmm, gives me an idea. Us IT geeks really ought to get a set of Hex numbered balls made up for when our geek friends come over.
Oh wait, never mind, we have no friends.
Hahaha... That's better than trying to devise a billiard game based on binary!
Why not? One can practice their CIDR "stealing a bit from the fourth octet" subnet masks!
"Oh, he just sank the /29 ball!"
(Gosh, now that I think of it, I just *really* dipped my network geek cards on that one!
)-Sean
Bob is SO the man!
I've attached a mock-up of Hexadecimal numbered balls, I have no idea why this hasn't been done before. I'm sure Bob will agree it is much more logical and efficient as only one digit per ball is required. Please have them added to the official WPA tournament equipment specs ASAP.
I can't wait to be calling the "F" in the corner pocket. ;-)
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The winning bid was $1009.99. Wow. Some people apparently wanted these balls pretty badly.
Why not? One can practice their CIDR "stealing a bit from the fourth octet" subnet masks!
"Oh, he just sank the /29 ball!"
(Gosh, now that I think of it, I just *really* dipped my network geek cards on that one!
OMG, Hahahaha... maybe we should play straight pool that way, but I was thinking to the /23 ball! *dies from exhaustion*
it's already based on binary.. the ball either falls or it doesn't LOL:grin-square::grin-square:
Now there's an idea -- I wasn't thinking straight pool when I said /29. (8 would be a very poor straight pool run, IMHO.) /25 (or race to 128) is a nice first tier round-robin match of straight pool. /24 (race to 256) is what championships are made of. But /23 (512)? "Dies of exhaustion" is right! Whump! :thud:
Say, come to think of it, where have we taken the poor OP's thread?!? Sorry about that artmustel!
-Sean
Now there's an idea -- I wasn't thinking straight pool when I said /29. (8 would be a very poor straight pool run, IMHO.) /25 (or race to 128) is a nice first tier round-robin match of straight pool. /24 (race to 256) is what championships are made of. But /23 (512)? "Dies of exhaustion" is right! Whump! :thud:
Say, come to think of it, where have we taken the poor OP's thread?!? Sorry about that artmustel!
-Sean
Oh, that's right... Hahaha... Back on topic. Cool historical value! There are a lot of different pocket billiard games that I never knew about until being active on AZB!