Why I Love Pool

[THE SILENCER]

there has been a lot of discussion as of late about me. the silencer is an asshole. well, what can i say? maybe this post will take attention off the fact, that i cause controversy. i guess you could say i'm the ketchup and tabasco sauce around here. without me you would survive very nice. however i add spice, true with spice comes heartburn, but hey, humans want spice, at least from time to time. maybe everyone should wear the same clothes and play with 18 ounce cues. we should all beleive no one can beat efren reyes, and one day we shall wake up and put bullets in our heads from being BORED OUT OF OUR HEADS!!!!! people get a life!!! sometimes boards need shaking up! now then onto why i love pool. because, it's sneaky, playing two way shots, or what the british call shots to nothing much. suprising cue ball directions. watching 15 balls roll into different pockets on a trick shot! watching a female bending over to shoot! wow. ok, bern, cool it!!!!!! watching effren reyes playing straight rail billiards. sudden death for $50,000 at the I.N.C.O.C. well hell, there are many more reasons but my top two are----- satisfaction of playing well and winning. and getting away from life the good bad and hurried, and to put all your mental energy into a good healthy game of pocket billiards. maybe now, i'm only half an asshole. p.s. my idle is Dr. bob fanchier author of pleasures of small motions. he allienated billiard digest readers so much, billiards digest let him go, hey, he had HIS way of thinking, and i loved that fact, he was a true GROUND breaker. his way or none. i like that in a person, it turns me on more so ,than if a person is wishy washy. goodnight.

 

[tobyjoe]

Bernie, if you had been around here more before deciding to become the "Spice Martyr" for all of us, you would have seen that there have been lots of disputes and arguments -- MOST of which were actually ABOUT something. They had substance. They were real opinions by real people who only wanted to discuss something.

If your goal is to "spice" things up around here, you're doing a shitty job. All you're doing, often, is phrasing things poorly and wasting database space with one-liner threads. If you really want to challenge an audience, the first step is to assume something that is almost always true of any audience and any speaker: the audience will always be smarter than you are. Ask real questions with humility. Make them controversial, if you must, but do it not because we NEED (in your eyes only) some action around here, but because you genuinely want to know the answers.

For someone who seems to believe he is doing work for the greater good, you seem to be failing miserably.

In my opinion, the problem might be that you think you're smarter or better than the rest of us here, which just can't be true. That's no slight to you, but we have pros, pro gamblers, cue makers, weekend warriors, professionals from all walks of life, and historians here.

Until you beat each one of us and know everything we do (combined) you should show a little respect and humility, perhaps?

 

[yobagua]

Ketchup? Tabasco? LOL!!! More like the Edsel, the 8-track tape or the spring loaded cue. Evocative but essentially useless and unnecessary.

 

[hemicudas]

I use to bet fooball, big time. If I lost on the weekend I always had my monday night "Saver" which I was good at and usually bailed me out.

Our friend SILENCER, AKA/Bernie, had a "Saver" card he intended to play if he got the responce that he did. The only problem he had in playing this card was that bigots come in all races, creeds, colors and religious back grounds.

SILENCER has proved himself to be a bigot. He now finds his "Saver" card, "But it's OK, I am Jewish" will not work, so his only "Saver" is to change the subject, which he did.

I have argued with many on this board but never put anyone on my ignore list. SILENCER will be the first.

 

[manlyshot]

SILENCER has proved himself to be a bigot. He now finds his "Saver" card, "But it's OK, I am Jewish" will not work, so his only "Saver" is to change the subject, which he did.

I have argued with many on this board but never put anyone on my ignore list. SILENCER will be the first.

Well said, Hemicudas! TAP, TAP, TAP, and a HEAR, HEAR!

ManlyShot