Pool Players Only

[Josephine25]

Pool player or not? How many fencers out there know how to play pool and are good at it?

[JackOfHearts]

I know how to play, but it's been awhile. I'll have to hit the tables the next time I'm at the Saddle Ranch.

[TrainingDummy]

I play but I suck. Big time. Bowling is better, especially with beer and nachos. I quit smoking but cigarettes go well, too.

[Black Jeebus]

I can play. And I have in the past won money doing so. I have no consistency to my pool game (actually a lot like my fencing game), I will either be on and nearly run a table or I won't pocket a single ball.

[Josephine25]

Originally Posted by Black Jeebus

I can play. And I have in the past won money doing so. I have no consistency to my pool game (actually a lot like my fencing game), I will either be on and nearly run a table or I won't pocket a single ball.

Reminds me of me I've only beaten my sister once at pool and that's when she sunk the eight ball by accident.

[Josephine25]

Originally Posted by TrainingDummy

I play but I suck. Big time. Bowling is better, especially with beer and nachos. I quit smoking but cigarettes go well, too.

How can you quit smoking if you have cigarettes?

[TrainingDummy]

Originally Posted by Josephine25

How can you quit smoking if you have cigarettes?

What? No, I said cigarettes go well with bowling. However, I quit. I didn't quit because I don't like them. I don't smoke anymore for health purposes. That doesn't mean I don't want to smoke now and then, I just don't do it.

[Zilverzmurfen]

Originally Posted by Josephine25

Pool player or not? How many fencers out there know how to play pool and are good at it?

Not.
I play with friends sometimes. It's fun, but I wouldn't say I'm good at it.

[Aqua_volans]

i suck at it. i injured a friend once when i slammed a ball right off the table and into his head.

[swordwench]

I'm not half bad when I have about 2 or 3 beers in me. After that, my game gets exponentially worse. Rather like when I throw darts. (Not D'Arts.) There must be some correlation there.

[latenight]

You don't spend as much time in bars as I do and not play well.....but I'm better after the first two drinks.

[swordwench]

Originally Posted by latenight

You don't spend as much time in bars as I do and not play well.....but I'm better after the first two drinks.

Apparently so... at least that's what I read about you on the women's room stall last Saturday!

[latenight]

Originally Posted by swordwench

Apparently so... at least that's what I read about you on the women's room stall last Saturday!

yeah, funny thing is I wrote that on the stall while.......umm....nevermind.

[Morion]

When in college I was rather good at the game. However without practice you lose "the eye". I now find that while I know what shot to take I can't seem to make it work.

[needle]

Originally Posted by Josephine25

Pool player or not? How many fencers out there know how to play pool and are good at it?

There's a brief time period (somewhere between 3rd and 5th pint) when my game is just perfect - sinking 2nd ricochette into side hole and the like ... intentionally. But it's never long enough to last for the whole game

[Epee_Pox]

Originally Posted by Morion

When in college I was rather good at the game. However without practice you lose "the eye". I now find that while I know what shot to take I can't seem to make it work.

Me too. It's so frustrating, because I *KNOW* that I can make that shot, and then it doesn't happen.

[Black Jeebus]

I love hearing about games like pool and bowling that most people play while slightly intoxicated. Primarily this is cause they learn to actually play the games while in an altered state of mind so they have to acheive that same altered state of mind again to put their experiences to use.

My question is does the concoction matter? For example if you learned to play pool drinking beer, does drinking liquor not produce effects which allow you to acheive that ideal buzz? Or do even different types of liquor vary enough to throw your game off?

[TrainingDummy]

Originally Posted by Black Jeebus

My question is does the concoction matter? For example if you learned to play pool drinking beer, does drinking liquor not produce effects which allow you to acheive that ideal buzz? Or do even different types of liquor vary enough to throw your game off?

Many students claim that smoking while studying makes them do better. I used to believe this, myself. Psychologists have found that smoking while studying only helps if you are studying WHILE TAKING THE TEST. I imagine the same applies to bowling.

[needle]

Originally Posted by Black Jeebus

I love hearing about games like pool and bowling that most people play while slightly intoxicated. Primarily this is cause they learn to actually play the games while in an altered state of mind so they have to acheive that same altered state of mind again to put their experiences to use.
My question is does the concoction matter? For example if you learned to play pool drinking beer, does drinking liquor not produce effects which allow you to acheive that ideal buzz? Or do even different types of liquor vary enough to throw your game off?

Well, I for one did not learn to play it while drinking. I was quite sober at that time. But alcohol does seem to improve my game at some point and no, the type of alcohol does not matter - same results with beer, vodka, margaritas, etc.

[Larrison]

*Grins* I'm surprized no one posted this..


Well, ya got trouble, my friend.
Right here, I say trouble right here in River City
Why, sure, I'm a billiard player
Certainly mighty proud to say,
I'm always mighty proud to say it
I consider the hours I spend with a cue in my hand are golden

Help you cultivate horse sense and a cool head and a keen eye
Didja ever take and try to give an iron clad leave
to yourself from a three-rail billiard shot?

But just as I say it takes judgement, brains and maturity
to score in a balk line game
I say that any boob can take and shove a ball in a pocket
And I call that sloth;
the first big step on the road to the depths of deg- re-day -
I say, first- medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then beer from a bottle
And the next thing you know your son is playin'
for money in a pinchback suit
And listenin' to some big out-o'-town jasper
hear him tell about horserace gamblin'
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no,
but a race where they set down right on the horse!
Like to see some stuck up jockey boy sittin' on Dan Patch?
Make your blood boil, well I should say

Now, folks, let me show you what I mean
You've got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table
Pockets that mark the difference between a gentleman and a bum
With a capital 'B' and that rhymes with 'P' and that stands for 'pool'

And all week long, your River City youth'll be fritterin' away
I say, your young men'll be fritterin'
Fritterin' away their noontime, suppertime, choretime, too
Hit the ball in the pocket
never mind gettin' dandelions pulled
or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded
Never mind pumpin' any water 'til your parents are caught
with a cistern empty on a Saturday night and that's trouble

Oh, ya got lots and lotsa trouble
I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers,
shirttailed young ones peekin' in the pool hall window after school
Ya got trouble, folks, right here in River City
with a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'P'
and that stands for 'pool'

Now I know all you folks are the right kind of parents
I'm gonna be perfectly frank
Would you like to know what kind of conversation goes on
while they're loafin' around that hall?
They'll be tryin' out Beevo, tryin' out Cubebs,
tryin' out tailor-mades like cigarette fiends
And braggin' all about how they're gonna cover up
a tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen

Now one fine night they leave the pool hall
headin' for the dance at the Armory
Libertine men and scarlet women and ragtime
Shameless music that'll grab your son, your daughter
into the arms of a jungle animal instinct- mass hysteria!
Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground, trouble!