>>Didn't know whether to put this in sport or not. Over here we've just had, again, another world championship in snooker. Now this "sport" strikes me a little like baseball, in that we have a world championship but, afaik, only one contestant was from outside the British Isles, and that was Honk Kong, an ex-Brit colony. The only other guy I can conjur to mind is Cliff Thorburn, and ex-contestant from Canada.
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>>Is it that Snooker is only practised in British Commonwealth lands? I've never seen any evidence of it in the USA or Europe. Incidentally, the guy who just lost the final has twice been world champ at 8-ball pool
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>Yep, we have snooker here. I was the 1974 military champion at snooker. Its probably the best pool game ever invented, outside 3-cushion billiards.
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>Its not publicized much here, but most towns have at least one pool room with a snooker table.

"the best pool game ever invented"????? That's like saying a grocery store is a neat kind of supermarket where you don't have to serve yourself.

But, essentailly your sentiment is right. :-)