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A man who foozles his drive and slices his approach, but who is nevertheless always down in two strokes after he has got on the putting-green, if not in one, is very hard to beat except his opponent is a really good player. We all admire the gentlemanlike courtesy with which some accept their fate, and play with some opponent of about the same age, or in congenial foursomes; but how painful, and yet how humorous is the sight of a man who under similar circumstances becomes irritable, fussy, fidgety, a pitiful sight to men and angels. Unless the green is a private one the talker has as much right to be there and to laugh or talk as you have to play golf, and every player should try and keep this fact in mind. We are convinced that so far we have been taking much too narrow a view. A funeral is not an exciting or particularly pleasant occupation, but there are many funerals where a dead silence is not more cultivated than at some golf matches; and it is stupid and useless to fly into a passion because somebody thirty or forty yards off who is not playing golf at all, or at any rate has nothing to do with you, talks or laughs so that you must hear him.

If you get angry with him, he refers to some Sahib dead and buried these thirty years, and says that when he was in that Sahib's service not a butler in the Province could touch him. That's right, what is billiards bust a thinking cap up your malnourished arses and let's get ready for strategy analysis. Billiards is not just a recreational hobby its a strategy sports game played by real people who love casual but fashionable sportswear. Billiards Cues: Billiards cues feature a medium-weighted cue (17-21 ounces) with a moderate taper and a tip diameter typically ranging from 11-12mm. This configuration balances the power and precision necessary for carom shots on pocketless tables. You strike the whote with a closed-finger loop bridge and you still take three shots before chalking up? Then there is a third one which is the oldest, a fourth one distinguished for scholarship, a fifth for athletic records, a sixth because it has the finest chapel, a seventh for I know not what, and as there are at least fifteen of them, I have mixed them all up; I see only the castellated palaces in Perpendicular style, the huge quadrangles, where the pupils move about in black gowns and square tasselled caps, each of whom has his two or three rooms in the wings of these castles; I see the Gothic chapels disembowelled by Protestantism, the banquet-halls with a dais for the "masters" and "fellows," the venerable smoked portraits of earls, statesmen and poets, who went forth from there; I see the renowned "backs," i.e. the rear of the colleges above the river Cam, over which there are bridges leading to the ancient college parks; I float on the gentle river between the "backs" and the parks, and I think of our students, of their hollow bellies and their boots down-at-heel with trudging from lecture to lecture.

The other principal games are played on tables that have six pockets, one at each corner and one in each of the long sides; these games include English billiards, played with three balls; snooker, played with 21 balls and a cue ball; and pocket billiards, or pool, played with 15 balls and a cue ball. We don’t know one thing: there are some people standing around the table, and we don’t know where they are, so we don’t know what their gravitational fields look like. While both games are played on a table with cues and balls, there are distinct differences between Snooker and Billiards. The consequence was that that disk missed the whole hop-scotch plan a yard or two, and then there was humiliation on one side and laughter on the other. Then I cannot help observe how stingy in chalk-applying terms are the players. Snooker games are organized into frames. Like many games dating back in history, the exact origin of this game is difficult to determine. This game seems to have split into variations as well. These early ball-and-mallet games appear to have split into variations, each of which seems to have plausibly been the forerunner of later games.

One variant seems to have developed into what would later become known as the 17th century (and later) version of Pall-Mall. Seriously Gramps, for an ex-champion you certainly shot the duck in this one. Please. Also, Gramps, don't shove the cue in the other guy's throat. Now someone makes a shot, and we either know the direction and force exactly or are allowed to measure the cue ball’s position and velocity exactly shortly after the shot. Likewise, when a player sinks their cue ball, it is spotted back on the table behind the head string. The player continues to alternate between potting reds and colored balls until all reds are off the table. Again we know everything: the starting conditions are known completely, the box is completely understood &c &c. ’ That cat wouldn’t fight, you know. Except that there’s an electron at the edge of the universe and we don’t know where it is (apart from how far away it is), and so again we don’t know its gravitiational field. For both of them imagine a universe where everything is completely Newtonian, so no quantum mechanics in particular. Now we want to predict where the balls go, and we’ll say that the prediction fails when a ball leaves a collision 90 degrees from where we predicted - it’s obvious that after that point we can’t usefully predict anything.