Why is the butt of a cue stick round?

[ajrack]

Snooker players

Almost without exception every snooker player who I talked into trying my "Yankee" round butt cue...liked it after they gave it a legitamate chance. Not just a few minutes!

 

[branpureza]

why do you drive on the parkway and park in the driveway?

 

[Bob Jewett]

Both Predator and Meucci have cue-swinging robots. Bob Meucci made his about ten years ago. They've been discussed extensively over at rec.sport.billiard and in the pool mags. The Predator robot has changed a lot since 1998 or so.

I must be getting old. Here is an article about the robots from 1998:Battle of the Robots

 

[Scaramouche]

What are you people smoking up there?

We smoke the same stuff that we export in vast quantities to connoisseurs in the U.S.A.