hingehead
 
  2  
Reply Wed 29 Jul, 2015 06:35 pm
@panzade,
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
You're not from 'round here, are you?
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hingehead
 
  2  
Reply Wed 29 Jul, 2015 07:15 pm
@panzade,
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
You want a two pound wager? Two pounds of what?
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oralloy
 
  1  
Reply Wed 29 Jul, 2015 07:34 pm
@George,
George wrote:
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
Wow, that's a lot of English.

I had to look that one up. Good one.

3 - North American - Spin given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/English
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firefly
 
  1  
Reply Wed 29 Jul, 2015 07:43 pm
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg

Now that's an authentic tea break.
OnTheFritz
 
  1  
Reply Wed 29 Jul, 2015 08:47 pm
@firefly,
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
Jolly good shot, right in her hoo-ha. So you and Mrs. Peel have been giving billiard exhibitions since the show was cancelled, Steed?
izzythepush
 
  2  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 02:35 am
@OnTheFritz,

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
Welcome to Arizona.
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George
 
  3  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 05:45 am
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
I find a good Darjeeling and a Slim Jim complement each other rather well.
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firefly
 
  2  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 07:02 am
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg

How's that for multitasking?
DrewDad
 
  2  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 08:55 am
@firefly,
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
"My word! That's just not cricket!"
DrewDad
 
  1  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 09:01 am
@DrewDad,
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
"Fancy some cue tea?"
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hingehead
 
  2  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 06:14 pm
@panzade,
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
A shot like that takes a lot of balls.
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hingehead
 
  1  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 06:15 pm
@tsarstepan,
I take it 'english' is slang for back or side spin? Curse our shared language!
hingehead
 
  1  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 06:16 pm
@panzade,
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
No stranger, I don't think I will scratch your nose.
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roger
 
  1  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 06:30 pm
@hingehead,
Yep! In something like bowling, body English is the contortions one might go through before launching the ball.

I've got a funny feeling that 'bowling' might be another point of confusion.
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firefly
 
  3  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 06:37 pm
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg

Well, old boy, consider yourself snookered.
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parados
 
  1  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 06:51 pm
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg

No, I won't play you for hookers and blow.
Butrflynet
 
  1  
Reply Thu 30 Jul, 2015 08:54 pm
@parados,

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg

"Mind your aim, mate. This isn't a game of conkers!"



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Lady Lingiton
 
  2  
Reply Fri 31 Jul, 2015 01:42 am
@panzade,
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg

Your English cocked hat shot into the center pocket looks rather Massey, what?
hingehead
 
  2  
Reply Fri 31 Jul, 2015 03:53 am
@Lady Lingiton,
M'lady, do you have the acquaintance of my old friend Lord Ellpus?
George
 
  5  
Reply Fri 31 Jul, 2015 04:33 am
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/150803_contest-690.jpg
Yeah, lotta folks take a wrong turn in Albuquerque.
 

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