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Fist and Faith
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No way! Congrats on another trip around the sun. Your arms must be tired!
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
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Still a man hears what he wants to hear
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Birthday buddies!
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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Well, you've only been here almost 20 years. You can't expect to notice everything all at once.Avatar wrote: ↑ Thanks.And happy birthday to @kevinswatch.
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I know, 4 more months...anyway, you should know by now I rarely pay attention to stuff that doesn't affect me directly.Fist and Faith wrote: ↑Well, you've only been here almost 20 years. You can't expect to notice everything all at once.Avatar wrote: ↑ Thanks.
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There's a chance I'd remember if someone has the same birthday as me. But I sure wouldn't bet on it.
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And Happy Birthday Cord Hurn. The very forum has cried it out.
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That's great having it at the bottom of the forum. Happy Birthday, CH.
Happy Birthday, CH.All lies and jest
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And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
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Thank you so much for the birthday wishes, Avatar, StevieG, Fist and Faith, and Menolly! The big six-oh weekend for me was a satisfying experience, dining out at an Irish-themed pub with friends, playing billiards, then going on a camping trip in the soothingly cool mountain forest of eastern Arizona, drinking wine and enjoying the gentle steady rains. Cheers! 
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What kind of "billiards"? (People often have vastly different games behind their use of the term...)
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I'm referring to a three-way pool hall game known as "cutthroat". One player has pool balls1-5, the second player has pool balls 7-10, and the third player has pool balls 11-15. The objective is to shoot all the balls of your opponents into pockets before all your pool balls are shot into pockets. If a player "scratches" (accidentally sinks the white cue ball into a pocket), then each opponent gets to put one of his/her pool balls back upon the billiard
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Ah, not familiar with that one.
But I would still call it "pool" rather than "billiards."To me, billiards is 2 white cue balls, (1 of them "spotted") and 1 red ball, with points for cannon shots and pocketing balls.
(When it comes to pool I mainly only play 8-ball.)
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Ah, I see. Where I live, "pool" and "billiards" are used interchangeably, but "pool" is more commonly used.
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Interesting!
In the day when I had friends who played pool and billiards, they were differentiated the way Av does it. I know South Florida is quite a ways from where CH is, but I would have thought the customs within the US would have remained more similar.
