If you've ever used "tables" or "matches" as units of time.
You might be a pool player if . . .
- Thread starter dquarasr
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My years away from pool weren't entirely pool free. Somebody I was using for day labor wanted me to drop him at a bar near his home. I stepped in with him to find the usual Valley type seven footer. We played a few games then an acquaintance of his put his money up to challenge and we started playing for the table. Never long enough away from pool to not bank on a bar table or play some other fairly aggressive shots.
After a bit the third guy said, "He is a pool player." What was funny was the tone and manner of speech. He couldn't have sounded worse if he called me a child molestor!
Hu
After a bit the third guy said, "He is a pool player." What was funny was the tone and manner of speech. He couldn't have sounded worse if he called me a child molestor!
Hu
Zerksies
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The pool halls I would frequent it would be my N***a
In the old days of closed bridges I kept the fingers of my bridge hand contorted into one of several bridges I used stretching connective tissue for long periods rather than totally wasting my time in school!
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You might be a pool player if you go to a strip club and
A: Ask what the entry fee is rather than the cover charge, and
B: Rate the performers as you would handicap a pool game -- "This girl gives the last one the seven and the breaks!"
Lou Figueroa
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A: Ask what the entry fee is rather than the cover charge, and
B: Rate the performers as you would handicap a pool game -- "This girl gives the last one the seven and the breaks!"
Lou Figueroa
bada bing
You might be a pool player if you go to a strip club full of gorgeous women, see that there is no pool table, turn around and walk out.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
I'd refuse to play on a table covered in glitter.
Around here a BRAD tool on the key chain was likely to indicate a solid player, that is before The Color of Money came out. Seemed like all of the posers had to have a BRAD tool on their keychain after The Color of Money came out even though I don't remember one in the movie. A Brad tool usually indicated a moderately advanced bar room banger, maybe a high C by today's scale. If they flashed it around you could take a half step off of their speed. Mine was always with me, in my watch pocket with a square of sandpaper or scotchbrite. If I needed it to work on a house cue I tried to sneak it out when my opponent went to the bar or bathroom. I considered putting it on my keychain and flashing it around as a "double steer" of sorts but figured I might be outsmarting myself doing it.
I went in my favorite hall with a couple of running buddies when I was a teenager. For whatever reason Jessie had stuck on a bunch of tips without shaping them. No crown or shoulder just flat across the top. I grabbed one and out with the BRAD tool to shape it for myself, then I shaped a couple more for my friends. When I was waiting around I dressed another half-dozen or so. I noticed Jessie ease over to look at some of the cues that I had just shaped the tip on and placed back in the wall racks. I got the Jessie nod and smile seal of approval, nothing spoken. I didn't try to dress all of the tips in case Jessie was testing something but I did about a dozen give or take a few. Enough to populate the wall racks in that area with decent cue tips on sticks for those that cared.
Hu
tomatoshooter
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Thereby making it a triple steer.
.....You hear people playing pool at at bar in almost every show or movie playing in the background.