Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group OT World Snooker (Chris Small)

Sounds like Remicade, or???

It's taken intraveneously and it's a (part?) mouse antibody.

Just a thought


/Mattias

I sometimes think of my self as a man of the world...but...please...pray tell, what is snooker?

Ben, snooker IMNSHO is the best game that can possibly be played with a cue and balls.

You have 15 red balls and 7 colored, object of the game is to pot the reds one by one each followed by a color that gets repositioned. Each red is worth one point and the coloreds vary from 2 points for the yellow to 7 points for the black. As stated in my earlier post, maximum score is 147 (15 reds + 15 blacks would be 120, then 2 (for the yellow)+3 (green)+4(brown)+5(blue)+6(pink)+7(black).
The table is considerably larger than a pool table. A pool table is 4' X 8' a snooker table is 6' X 12'

Check this Link out, it will explain it much better than I.





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Question.....

Is this potentially where the phrase "I got snookered" came from. I am speaking from ignorance.

Tim

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Ian,

Beg to differ but a full size pool table is 4 1/2' x 9' ....still small compaired to a snooker table though:)

At 6' 57" tall you need a big table...I, on the other hand, need a ladder!

Pete



"Maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans. But this is our hill. And these are our beans!"
- Lt. Frank Drebin

Pete

Is it possible to play pool while in a wheelchair??? I always wanted one but now I think that dream might just be gone for good. Besides if I had the money to buy a pool table I would put it towards making my house work better for me and getting outside. But it is nice to dream some times.

John

Hi John,

The problem wouldn't be sizing down the table or customizing it to fit a wheelchair...the problem would be being able to see the other end of the table and reaching or getting in position to shot a shot. Interesting problem...perhaps you would do better on a bumper pool table. It's a hexagon table, about 4' in diameter, I think. Small enough that you would be able to see and reach any part of the table. Most are three-in-one...a normal hardwood table top which flips to become a poker table. Remove the table top and the bumper table is underneath. Since it's designed to be used as a regular table, I would think your chair would fit nicely...maybe w/o the arms though. It's not as challenging as pool, billards or the king, snooker, but it isn't easy either and it's a lot of fun.

I think it would be a perfect answer for you. I don't know where but I'll bet if you asked around you could find one and try it out.

Good luck,

Pete



"Maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans. But this is our hill. And these are our beans!"
- Lt. Frank Drebin

Snooker?? What is Snooker? forgive my ingorance but I have never heard of that game.

"If you succeed through violence at the expense of other's rights and welfare, you have not solved the problem, but only created the seeds for another." - William Wheaton

It's a game invented by a sadistic Englishman who could't win at Billards. He made the table bigger, the balls smaller and the cue thinner. And, to really PO his opponents, he rounded the the corners of the pockets and made them about one hairs width wider that the balls thus making in next to impossible to sink a ball. (excuse me...pot a ball) One game takes about a week to finish which apparently doesn't bother the Brits much but it drives us Americans with our 'got to have it now' attitude, absolutely crazy! And That's why you won't see it on any American TV but you will see the fast action game of 9 Ball a lot. Being a glutton for punishment, I play Snooker whenever and wherever I can get a game (never won...not once!). Many Snooker players cross the pond to whip our collective As*es and take our money...but it's all in fun. Yeah right:(



"Maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans. But this is our hill. And these are our beans!"
- Lt. Frank Drebin

Yes. You play a shot so that the white cue ball gets hidden behind coloured balls leaving your opponent with no direct aim on a red one. He has to play off the side cushion which is difficult.

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