A few weeks ago I won a Joss Thor's Hammer break cue, my son loved that name more than the idea of having the break cue and this lead to something funny.
I need to preface this a bit with a story, we got a new table for the house, but it had an older lower end Aramith set of balls so I was on the hunt for a good used set of Pros or Centennials.
We went to a charity tournament to raise money for the two kids heading to China for the World Jr Tournament, and they had 3 sets of Armaith Pro Cup balls with the measels cue ball on display next to the trophies. Jackpot! Put in $10 worth in the raffle ticket bucket cross fingers.
Play in the tournament, winning nicely partnered with my son, they do the raffles, I end up winning Thor's Hammer. OK, not the balls but still good luck. A guy I an friendly with wins one of Aramith ball sets and immediatly makes a beeline for me, he wants the break cue but now my son is looking at the cue with the Thor's Hammer logo (great cool name for a 14 yr old boy LOL), although he has a break/jump cue already. So the guy says "Hey, now you can have Thor's Balls". LOLs all around, we end up with the $240 ball set for my $10 raffle tix buy.
And we come in third in the tournament out of like 20 teams and took Thor's Balls home with us.
The reason I thought of the product name was the thread about why Schmelke cues are not that popular. I thought it may be the name. Sounds like a nickname for a penis.
"Hey man, whatcha playing with?" "My Schmelke" "Oh... "
I think people want a Joss, Schon, something cooler sounding. Like Thor's Hammer.
I need to preface this a bit with a story, we got a new table for the house, but it had an older lower end Aramith set of balls so I was on the hunt for a good used set of Pros or Centennials.
We went to a charity tournament to raise money for the two kids heading to China for the World Jr Tournament, and they had 3 sets of Armaith Pro Cup balls with the measels cue ball on display next to the trophies. Jackpot! Put in $10 worth in the raffle ticket bucket cross fingers.
Play in the tournament, winning nicely partnered with my son, they do the raffles, I end up winning Thor's Hammer. OK, not the balls but still good luck. A guy I an friendly with wins one of Aramith ball sets and immediatly makes a beeline for me, he wants the break cue but now my son is looking at the cue with the Thor's Hammer logo (great cool name for a 14 yr old boy LOL), although he has a break/jump cue already. So the guy says "Hey, now you can have Thor's Balls". LOLs all around, we end up with the $240 ball set for my $10 raffle tix buy.
And we come in third in the tournament out of like 20 teams and took Thor's Balls home with us.
The reason I thought of the product name was the thread about why Schmelke cues are not that popular. I thought it may be the name. Sounds like a nickname for a penis.
"Hey man, whatcha playing with?" "My Schmelke" "Oh... "
I think people want a Joss, Schon, something cooler sounding. Like Thor's Hammer.
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