LePheaux wrote:
> Foxx led in with>
> I play a dead stroke game of 9-ball your supposed to say, ya
> dead stroke fer sure , so dead I can smell the stink from here.
> were gonna have to work on this a bit Dave, when I do the set
> up, you step up

Trashing someone's game just for trashing's sake has never been my style. I have to assume that they're always trying their best. Why take a chance that they'll be offended by my joking remarks? Well, there's actually one guy in Kent that needs the trash talk to keep his ego somewhat in synch with his abilities. So I'm constantly teliing him things like Helen Keller says she'll give him the 8 but the 7 is too much so stop asking. Or (referring to his $1500 custom cue) that I saw his cue was on sale at KMart. Or my jack-handle broke can I borrow his cue for a minute.

With anyone else about as far as I'll go is something like this: You shoot a ball in the corner, using high-right to move Whitey around the table three rails to break up a cluster. It's a beautiful stroke, but you miss the cluster by 2mm. "Most people would have tried to break that out", I'll say, or "Do you need a do-over?" Things like that are obviously well-intentioned.

You and I can (obviously) disagree on several things and debate them with varying levels of intensity, but we don't know each other well enough to start trashing each other's game when we're not even at the table, IMO.