Comments on The Race to One Thousand
Nexus John Fri 19 May 06 5:43 PM
What are the odds? and who pays out?
Johnny Nineball Sat 20 May 06 9:28 PM
Odds are it'll end in tears, that's what, and we'll all pay in the end.
jonathan Fri 26 May 06 6:39 PM
I don't care who's laying the odds but I'd bet that shady so-called 'Mike' character is standing to clean up some way or another. 'Manufacturer's tip', indeed. I'd say you'd be best off keeping an eye out there, there could be a rabbit off.
Oh and I'm my heart is gladdened beyond all reason by the use of the phrase 'early doors' in frame two there. Exemplary, quite exemplary.
Nexus John Sat 27 May 06 4:17 PM
I like 'early doors' as well. Perhaps we could use 'gone for b'it toby in later dispatches together with the balls running against the knap, putting the white back in the long grass and the cardinal sin of putting the chalk back on the table "chalk side down"
The latter, after chalking one's cue and replacing it on the edge of the table with it's chalk facing down is unforgiveable.
I always have a healthy respect for a man who has a healthy respect for the finer points of billiards etiquette. However, at the joints where we generally play, if you can keep a man from setting his beer down on the edge of the table, or at least make sure he sets it down "beer side up" you're ahead of the game. We're not up to chalk placement subtleties just yet, but one can always hope.
Jonathan Mon 17 Jul 06 12:10 PM
I see 'against the knap' and 'putting the white in the long grass' wasted no time in making their appearance- although I'm not sure if the latter expression has reached the other side of the Atlantic with the same meaning as when it left. Perhaps I could put in a request for another from Nexus John's personal glossary of billiard-room bon mots: balls 'wiping their feet' before dropping into pockets.
And I am glad to see that the Mushrooming Tips Controversy, which was threatening to cast an ugly pall over these entire proceedings, has been resolved by this across-the-board house cues ruling, which strikes me as eminently sensible.
Hmmmm...just came across your pages and was looking at the dates. Did you ever reach 1,000? The whole idea was strangely familiar. My husband and I had been playing a lot of 9-ball and so I bought this vintage childs bead counter so we could slide the beads as we won and keep track of the big "winner" for the week. I guess we're not the only couple with competitive tendencies. :)
Ahh this is quite funny. It's like my family's version of facebook, what with the commenting on notes and such :')
Although I do realise how long it has been since someone commented on this; so I am not really expecting a response.
..by the way, wtf is nineball? :D
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