Tabs mother is right
 

"My Mother has always told me not to hang around pool halls cause only bad sort of characters hang around there, loafers, bar fly's and grifters... No sort of decent man would be caught dead in one of those dens of inequity... She says you pick up bad habits of smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey, picking up bad language and reading Captain Billy Wizbang...and that is not to mention the loose women...

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CITIZEN TABS"

Did I ever say I was a decent man?


Some pool players are degenerate gamblers. Here's proof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuEGZDhmklE

What's wrong with the part about loose women?

And bad language. F' that, I wouldn't go there.


Also I hear some of the guys have been playing pocket billards. That's really gross.

I just fondle the dice....but shhh don't tell Mother.

Fondle a single - die
Fondle a pair o' dice - nice!

Mother sez don't play solitaire tho'...

Mama don't 'low no _____ 'round here...
We don't care what mama don't 'low....we gonna play our...

Nice! Nobody hipper than J.J. Cale!

As I mentioned in an earlier thread, my dad hustled pool when he was in college to help pay for tuition. His dad was dead by the time dad told me about his pool playing.

The weird part (at the time) is my grandfather, dad's dad, almost went ballistic when my brother and I wanted to walk down the street to play some pool with each other because we were bored hanging at the grandparents house. He grandpa was like Tab's mom on steroids and in a full rage. My brother and I quickly knew we were not going, but he ranted for a lot longer. We had never before seen him so mad.

I learned much later in life that my grandpa was a bit of a hooligan and well known for fighting, and drinking in the bars around the stockyards in Oklahoma City. He nickname was Red, because his face would get very red with rage when he was drinking and playing pool, and smoking, and fighting. Doing all the things he was afraid my brother and I would do if we played a game of pool in a pool hall.

Not to mention betting $5,000 on a coin flip. I guess nobody watched the video? I was amazed at Alex's money counting skills. Cindy can count bills that fast, but she was a bank teller when I met her. Alex? Merely one of the world's top pool players. Gambling addicted? This video sure is a clue...
(edit) One of Alex's opponents dubbed him "The killer Pixie"...it fits. As one guy on the pool site I lifted the video from pointed out, poor Alex is a degenerate gambler with only the saving grace of being one of the best pool players on the planet allowing him to get another stake. I have the feeling that if he's able to reach my age, life won't turn out well for him. So...some sadness here.