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how would you know, you only got here ! we've been unhinged for many many years.
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A sexy billiards related products store! Diapers! Erotic Cue Chalk! Heavy Duty Ball Lube 
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Eat yer hearts out...
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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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Lota jealousy going on here Paul
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Its ok to shoot pool wearing garters, Paul. Make sure you accessorize with the right high heels.
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Obviously these guys have no idea about the joys of plating pool. So shall we switch the subject, to, say... Katie.
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In it's own way, there is a beauty to it...especially at the higher levels. Every bit as beautiful as an Unser cutting a near perfect lap at Indy. Me? Strictly a recreational banger, very low on the pool talent scale. For me, only fun..recreation. For others? This writer explains it far better than I ever could...I also posted this on the death thread. Tony, the player being written about here died recently... Playing Off The Rail, by David McCumber, Random House, 1996, pages 276-277. It is presented as the author's thoughts while watching a masterfully played 9-ball match. "Tony broke, and made two balls, and I could see the table unfold in my mind, and I knew he could see it even better, and would run it. As he made the shots I was overpowered by the beauty of this game, at once immutably logical, governed by physical inevitabilities, and at the same time infinitely poetic and varied. This game at its best, as it was being played before me, had the transcendent power of a Handel chorus. I thought about what an impressive mental exercise it was for Tony, after a miserable session against an unremarkable player two hours earlier, to reinvent himself so completely. It was a question of heart, a gathering of everything stored inside a man, a refusal to fall after stumbling. It was a very rare thing for a player to take such advantage of the game's intrinsic quality of renewal, the fresh start with each match, each rack, each shot. Nothing pharmaceutical could ever exceed the jolt of bliss that comes with the self-mastery that sort of play entails: knowing the ball is going in, knowing the cue ball is going to stop precisely where you willed it to, knowing that the next shot is going in too. I thought of Willie Hoppe, running an astonishing twenty-five billiards in an exhibition in 1918, seeing all those rails and angles and spins and caroms in his head like presents waiting to be opened. It was no accident that Hoppe was the most disciplined and controlled player of his era. Power over the cue ball, over the object ball, is power over ourselves. It is the sweetest irony that pool has gathered the reputation of being a game for louts and idlers, when, to be played well, it demands such incredible discipline of movement, of thinking, of emotion."
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