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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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Bumper Pool
Any fun?
Downsized home and no spot for the pool table. Also, my eyesight is effed up, multifocal cataract + RK. I sometimes see double images at a distance.
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12-24-2020, 05:30 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Oswego, OR
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We had one at my parents cabin as a kid. Countless hours played.
Odd coincidence, we have a table from my FIL in our front room. Doesn't get played often. It does get use if we entertain. Not like that happened this year. Summary: I don't think I would buy one. |
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12-24-2020, 06:04 AM
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 As for bumper pool, it has been years since I've played but I never really liked it.
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12-24-2020, 06:29 AM
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Location: Linn County, Oregon
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sort of a combination of pool and pinball. some get really good at it... fun is a subjective thing. Never had the opportunity to try it...
Vision problems make cue sports frustrating...but despite my old age vision problems, I'm itching to get back to a pool table.
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12-24-2020, 09:24 AM
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My son has a pool table. Turns out, with the covers installed it's just the right size for his daughter's train set.
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12-24-2020, 09:32 AM
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Sadly, that's how many home tables end up...also, a good place to fold laundry.
 Like I said..you need to love the game in order to appreciate it. Bumper pool...Evidently, when Playboy had a club in Chicago, there was a bunny who worked there who would take on all comers, easily beating the guys. Who was she? Later in life.."The striking Viking"...Ewa Mataya Laurance. Here she is on a local TV women's morning show..short 4 minutes video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX0KOzVe2s4
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) |
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12-24-2020, 09:42 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Winter Haven, FL usa
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Had a great table for 20++ years.
There was a decade it got used a lot- especially when the kids were home. Used a lot. Then usage tapered. A couple of eye surgeries later- I can't line a shot up well. Kids only visit, grandkids not old enough. Got rid of the table earlier this year. Like anything else it has cycles. Overall, we enjoyed ours. gary |
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12-25-2020, 03:33 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Oz
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Scored our pool table for free.
previous owners were moving and they didnt to move it. Moving it (then levelling it) wasnt fun.
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12-25-2020, 03:48 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Group W Bench
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^^^ Which is why I took the attitude of: "So let me get this, straight; you'll disassemble, load, transport, unload, carry all the pieces downstairs, reassemble and level this table? And all I have to do is give you three one hundred dollar bills?"
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12-25-2020, 04:23 AM
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1985 Porsche 911 Cab
My former car
