What's the funniest thing you have seen in pool?

This isn't really funny but.....

I was playing in a weekly tourney with a buddy of mine, and we both made it to the finals. I was in the seat and he had worked his way up the losers side. In the first set, it's 1-1 in a race to two. On the third game after pocketing some balls I play safe on him, he kicks at his ball and misses. As a result, he looks at the table and sees I have an easy run out, get's pissed cause he thinks it's all over, and jokingly pretends to crack his cue over his knee as he leaves the table. He didn't mean to do it, but he hit the forearm of his cue on his kneecap a little harder than he wanted to and cracked his newer custom cue right in half! Tears ensued......... It really sucked! Dont ever play around with your cue cause SH!T happens!
 
Two of the most memorable things I have seen were: back in 1988 at the University of Wyoming during the ACUI tournament, this guy that nobody liked, named Dusty, racked the balls and stood by the side of the table as his opponent broke. The cue ball flew off the table and smoked ol' Dusty directly in the 'nads. We were all wide-eyed as he instantly dissappeared below the table. Most of the other players laughed until they cried!

The other incident was when I was just a beginning pool player. I was shooting against an experienced player who shanked the break, leaving a pile of balls around the rack. After a couple of shots, I had the cue ball back in the kitchen. I looked at the stack an noticed I could play a stripe in the right corner, so I called it and shot it. I smacked that ball in and another followed it into that corner while two more balls went into the lefthand corner. They were all stripes. The cueball came out of the mess lined-up on the eight for the win. The other guy ranted and raved until he was red in the face about how I would never be that lucky ever again.
 
the funniest thing I ever saw.

The funniest thing I ever saw was when a buddy of mine who had an identical 74 palmer, was attempting to twirl it around like a staff. I had done this a whole bunch of times and he thought it would be easy. When he came around with it he let it go in midair and it came down at an angle.

Instant JUMPCUE!!!! Well not exactly. it split in the middle of the forearm and we ended up cutting it down to a jump cue. He offered it to me for $50 and I should have taken it. It would've been worth it just for the extra shaft.
 
pooltchr said:
I'm working in the pro shop at a local room. This guy comes up and asks how much to replace his cue tips with LePro tips. I give him the price, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out 6 SCREW-ON TIPS, lays them on the counter and asks if they can be ready by the weekend!
Steve
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ROFL! oh man hahaha that's too good
 
Playing bar box 8 ball on a new years eve some years ago with my mate and the 8 is the only ball left on the table. We were both a bit drunk and the decides to bank the 8 the full length of the table. He hits the shot at about 3000 mph, the 8 hits the end rail,goes straight up in the air about 10 foot, lands in the center of the table and bounces a few time and the screws itself into the side pocket! My mate then spent the next 10 mins running around the pub waving the cue in the air.
 
a couple guys i used to play with got into a partners match with some guy and his girl friend, the couple really had no chance, but they started playing $20 a man, after they lost a couple games the boy friend gets mad and makes some remark, one of the guys doesn't like what he said, so he gets into the guys face and tells him to stfu, the bf thinks for a second, then says something, and the guy smacks him in the face, then he thinks for a second and decides that he doesn't want any part of the guy(not many would), some how they continue on playing another game, and the guy that smacked the bf was breaking, and he was steaming mad, he proceeds to break as hard as he possibly can but instead of following through the cue comes out of his hands and it sticks into the wall like a dart into a dart board
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That is funny. I have shot a bank cross side hard on a bar table with sagging rails, the ball bounced off the rail and landed dead square in the pocket I was shooting in... no bounces at all, but never seen a long rail bank like that.

Kelly

deep said:
Playing bar box 8 ball on a new years eve some years ago with my mate and the 8 is the only ball left on the table. We were both a bit drunk and the decides to bank the 8 the full length of the table. He hits the shot at about 3000 mph, the 8 hits the end rail,goes straight up in the air about 10 foot, lands in the center of the table and bounces a few time and the screws itself into the side pocket! My mate then spent the next 10 mins running around the pub waving the cue in the air.
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A few incidents that always come to mind when this topic comes up:

1) I was playing with a friends cue and went to break. As I did so I noticed that there was a crack in the shaft that looked like a fracture in the grain of the wood. I pointed it out to him and he said to go ahead and break anyways as it was just a $10 job from Wal-Mart. I go to break and and sure enough, the end of the shaft snapped off and went flying across the table. In the middle of its flight, it rotated 180 degrees and went out the door of the lounge and into the hallway (this was in a military barracks) at about head height. The only thing that could have been funnier (in a dark way) is if someone were to have walked back in with the shaft sticking out of their neck; thank god that did not come to pass.

2) We were learning how to properly execute jump shots in the lounge of the third floor. As is the general tendency when doing this for the first time, you think that you have to hit the ball much harder than is actually necessary. If you caught my hint, then you already know that someone jumped the cue out the window. Just landed short of the sidewalk and on the lawn in front of the barracks. The look on that shooters face: priceless.

3) I was playing a game of 8-ball on a bar box that had a deep groove between the rail and the cushion. A friend broke and the cue ball bounced on the table a couple of times and actually ended up coming to rest in this groove. Since we didn't know the exact rules at the time and we were just fooling around, I decided to play it from there. I pocketed the first shot, which was actually quite easy as it was almost straight in and relatively perpendicular to the groove and ran out from there.

4) I was playing a guy called Lucky Larry, who is actually anything but and relied on his nickname to get easy action on roadies who think they are above the effects of such nonsense. The game was 9-ball and I had just scratched on the 9. Since this was before the newer "Texas Express" style rules were common, we played that the 9 was a spot shot for him. While he's getting ready to shoot, he slams his piece of chalk on the table along the path the cue would take to the natural scratch somewhere near the head string and asked me if he could leave it there. I had this feeling that something interesting was going to come of it, so I agreed. He pockets the nine perfectly and the cue goes right for the corner pocket and hits the chalk dead center. Normally this would not be considered all that interesting as that part is pretty easy for anyone to do. The funny part was that the cue drove the piece of chalk in front of it like the chalk was Superman trying to stop a locomotive from hitting a car parked on the tracks. They both stopped locked together in their fierce embrace with only a quarter inch to spare.

If these were sea stories I would have started with the line "This ain't no BS", only thing is that these are all true.
 
Now that is FUNNY!
Kelly


Johnson said:
a couple guys i used to play with got into a partners match with some guy and his girl friend, the couple really had no chance, but they started playing $20 a man, after they lost a couple games the boy friend gets mad and makes some remark, one of the guys doesn't like what he said, so he gets into the guys face and tells him to stfu, the bf thinks for a second, then says something, and the guy smacks him in the face, then he thinks for a second and decides that he doesn't want any part of the guy(not many would), some how they continue on playing another game, and the guy that smacked the bf was breaking, and he was steaming mad, he proceeds to break as hard as he possibly can but instead of following through the cue comes out of his hands and it sticks into the wall like a dart into a dart board
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1. I was at the Golden Q in Queens about 2.5 years ago watching one of their Super Tournaments (it was on December 14, 2003 to be exact). Joey K. and an older gentleman by the name of Gilbert were playing. I think Joey K was giving Gilbert the 5 or 6, I don't quite remember. Anyway, I think Gilbert was on the hill with having the 5 and 6 left on the table. On the table next to them, the shooter broke, the cueball flew off the table, landed on Joey K and Gilbert's table, hit into the 9 ball and the 9 ball went into a pocket. At that, Gilbert quickly pocketed his 5 and 6 ball and claimed that he won. The look on Joey's face was hilarious because it all happened so fast. Anyway, Gilbert didn't win that match and I can't remember how it was settled but it was a good show!

2. At Hall of Fame Billiards in Brooklyn (Jean Balukas' place), I and some other friends were practicing when in walked a guy who had every gear imaginable. I guess that made him feel like an extremely experienced pool player (whatever works I guess!). So he gets on a table that's probably about 3 tables away from ours. First, he puts on his Sir Joseph glove on the wrong hand so it's not serving its purpose! LOL Then, he takes out one of his little sandpaper pieces and starts to swipe down the shaft of his cue--a Cuetec. You could see all of the color chipping off the cue and onto the pool table. Hilarious!

There's so much more but these are the ones that you just had to be there to fully appreciate it!
 
hilarious.

9 Ball Girl said:
1. I was at the Golden Q in Queens about 2.5 years ago watching one of their Super Tournaments (it was on December 14, 2003 to be exact). Joey K. and an older gentleman by the name of Gilbert were playing. I think Joey K was giving Gilbert the 5 or 6, I don't quite remember. Anyway, I think Gilbert was on the hill with having the 5 and 6 left on the table. On the table next to them, the shooter broke, the cueball flew off the table, landed on Joey K and Gilbert's table, hit into the 9 ball and the 9 ball went into a pocket. At that, Gilbert quickly pocketed his 5 and 6 ball and claimed that he won. The look on Joey's face was hilarious because it all happened so fast. Anyway, Gilbert didn't win that match and I can't remember how it was settled but it was a good show!

2. At Hall of Fame Billiards in Brooklyn (Jean Balukas' place), I and some other friends were practicing when in walked a guy who had every gear imaginable. I guess that made him feel like an extremely experienced pool player (whatever works I guess!). So he gets on a table that's probably about 3 tables away from ours. First, he puts on his Sir Joseph glove on the wrong hand so it's not serving its purpose! LOL Then, he takes out one of his little sandpaper pieces and starts to swipe down the shaft of his cue--a Cuetec. You could see all of the color chipping off the cue and onto the pool table. Hilarious!

There's so much more but these are the ones that you just had to be there to fully appreciate it!
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This reminds of something that I say when people ask me if they should wear a glove.

There are only three types of people who wear gloves and play with non wood pool cues. The first is the guy who don't know sh%t about pool and think the $100 they spent on their cuetec makes it an EXPENSIVE cue and them a Hustler/Pro.

The second type is the HUSTLER, who wants you to think that he's the first type.

The third is the Pro who gets paid to wear a specific brand of glove or play with a specific brand of cue.
 
Jaden said:
This reminds of something that I say when people ask me if they should wear a glove.

There are only three types of people who wear gloves and play with non wood pool cues. The first is the guy who don't know sh%t about pool and think the $100 they spent on their cuetec makes it an EXPENSIVE cue and them a Hustler/Pro.

The second type is the HUSTLER, who wants you to think that he's the first type.

The third is the Pro who gets paid to wear a specific brand of glove or play with a specific brand of cue.
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That reminds me, before gloves came out, over 25 years ago, I met a friend in the poolroom who was excited to show me his new glove. I looked at it and it only had 3 fingers and the edges of each finger were sewn into something like 3 pieces, not all 1 piece like gloves today. Now this guy was named 3-Fingered Joe, because you guessed it, he only had 3 fingers. So I asked him if it was specially made for him. Boy was I embarrassed when he told me it wasn't! :o :o :o
And then of course, they came out for real and then I was mortified! LOL.
 
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Strange But True

Okay, I've got another story, but it is from the stranger than fiction file. I had a friend, Bob P., that was a bar owner in a small Wyoming town. He was standing next to the table watching his opponent shoot when his best friend came in the bar and ran up behind him and jumped on him, giving him a big bear hug. Well, poor Bob's head went down and his Meucci cue tip went right through his cheek, crunched through all the bone and went way high up into his nose and behind his eye. Blood gushed out and they rushed him to the hospital. Bob went into the bathroom and while looking in the mirror, sneezed and his eye fell out of the socket. He stuffed it back in and the doctors told him he was going to lose it. He told them "NO WAY! FIX IT!" So they stiched him up and sent him home. I saw him a week after and he was a purple mess. Bob made a full recovery, but the Meucci had to be put down (after getting a taste of human blood).

Before the accident.... I also watched poor Bob P. loose $100 to Bobby Flores (a talented semi-pro from Wyoming), who was playing with a broomstick from Bob P.'s cleaning closet. Bob P. insisted that Flores play the match with a clip-on dustpan attached to the broom handle. Everytime Flores broke, that dustpan snapped off and flew onto the table. The match started at about 3 a.m and Flores lost the first three games, but just kept rubbing chalk on that oversized broom handle, biding his time. He ended up winning the next 7 straght for the cash. He also was able to draw the cueball by about the 6th rack, which amazed me.
 
At my pool hall here, this guy, he called himself "Diamond Jay", was out to impress me so I set him up to play my buddy $20 a game. This idiot couldn't run three balls. Throughout the game, he would time himself, and try to beat his time whenever it was his turn to shoot. He would also turn to me and say, "watch this", then whether or not my buddy sunk a ball, he would turn to me, nod thoughtfully, and say "See?" ... I would just smile and nod back lol He would also "jump" the CB from the bottom by scooping it. So I would yell "Jump it, Jay!" and pretty soon he was hooking himself on purpose so I'd cheer for him. ROTFLMAO We still laugh about that one.
 
rackmsuckr said:
I'm not talking about people taking the wrong ball, but that's funny too.

I saw an 8ball game where a player broke, flew the cueball off the table, but also made the 8 on the break. Neither player noticed that the 8 went down. There were lots of clusters of balls. The opponent took ball in hand and started shooting. By now, the crowd is smiling. They both had several innings at the table. Finally, ON THE BALL BEFORE THE 8, the guy finally realizes he has nothing to shoot at next. You should have seen the look on his face when he realized they both shot the whole game with no 8 on the table! :p

I think this demonstrates that they weren't thinking out the whole table, now were they?? :rolleyes:

I also once (a long time ago) broke and the cue flew out of my hand, sailed over the bar, and almost speared the bartender. My whole team was on the floor rolling. :o
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About 5 or 6 years ago this guy from my poolroom who
was a very good player (A+ or open speed) just
stopped playing one day, I think he wanted to become
a pro but realised it wasnt profitable so he just
quits. Anyway no oe sees him for about a year and
he just walks in one day with his new girlfriend,
he says that he hasn't played at all but he told
his girlfriend that he used to play a lot and she
wanted him to show hera few things. So they go over
to a table and he racks the balls for 9-ball and
gets ready to break (he had a very big break) and
takes a few big practice strokes and fires away, but
he completely misses the cueball and sends the
cuestick right through the over head light! the cue
was actually stuck in the light and the sparks were
flying! It was hilarious, the embarrassed look on
his face was pricesless. You had to be there.
 
i have two good ones,

1. this guy, who shoots pretty straight, makes the 8 on a hill-hill 9-ball match. the final 9 is frozen on the short cushion, right in the center. the CB is frozen on the opposite cushion. so this not so smart dude decides to cut the ball to the left corner, but for some reason he hits it so hard that the cueball jumped right off the rail and hit him right in the forehead. the guy is out, 9 is in!!
2. this other friend of mine, who is not so good has two fouls, gets ball in hand on the 9 which his opnent had left right IN the pocket. his opponent doesnt forfeit the rack and expects him to shoot the nine. my friend got angry and hit the cueball without even gettin down on the shot and scratched without hitting the 9?!?! lost the game on 3fouls!?!
 
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Sweet Marissa said:
Throughout the game, he would time himself, and try to beat his time whenever it was his turn to shoot. He would also turn to me and say, "watch this"
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Reminds me of this little guy..........
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rackmsuckr said:
I also once (a long time ago) broke and the cue flew out of my hand, sailed over the bar, and almost speared the bartender. My whole team was on the floor rolling. :o
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Linda,

Funniest thing I ever saw in pool was one night this lil' cute asian lookin woman was playing wraped in see thru bubble wrap, she broke and her cue flew out of her hand and nearly speared the bartender. :eek: :) :p :D

Terry
 
Weekenders

I used to work in a room with about 12 goldcrowns, a snooker table, billiard table and some home tables. On the weekends all of the local players would scram and we would get all of the recreational/date players.

There were about 5 times that I gave out a rack of balls and told someone to go to table X. Instead, they want some privacy and head for the corner table. They rack the balls. Break and proceed to play. On the billiard table! I watched one couple play about 5 innings before coming to me to complain.

I remember on the weekends that I always tried to hide the cone of talc because people would go to it like they were about to do the uneven bars in the olympics. It was hysterical.
 
Tbeaux said:
Linda,

Funniest thing I ever saw in pool was one night this lil' cute asian lookin woman was playing wraped in see thru bubble wrap, she broke and her cue flew out of her hand and nearly speared the bartender. :eek: :) :p :D

Terry
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I'm not really sure how angelic you are! LOL ;) :D :o :p
 
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