>You wore a tie at college?
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Just an old, school tie <s>
>Billiards (on a billiards/snooker table) comprises only 3 balls: white, white with a spot and red (I seem to recall) and it's all about shooting cannons and stuff. It's been too long for me to remember (I was just a kid) but an interesting and skilful game.
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Another interesting game, billiards, but the tables are quite different in that a billiard table has no pockets. Three-cushion billiards is extremely difficult.
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>>>"Balabushka" - sounds like something Kate Bush would sing about :-)
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>>Well, she did sing "Rolling the ball" ... <s>
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><s> nice one!
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>>( bespoke cue made by George Balabushka )
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>So it doesn't give you "the kick inside"?
That's funny, I was really thinking of how to work that into my original response <g>
( and now digging into my music collection for a dose of "Running up that hill" )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
