Welcome to yet anther blasting review of the category Time-Pass.My creative (assumed) writing senses were knocking my dumb brain. They wanted to ooze out and get noticed. Yeah! They too know about Mouthshut. While the whole of India was utterly wasting their precious time watching a even more utterly & inadvertently noticed movie Mein Prem Ki Deewaani Hoon, I had no other option but to run away to the nearest pool parlor & play snooker. So I decided to shut up my creative sensory organs by appending another review to the Total Timepass collection.
Eternal déjà vu Mantra
Well, I received good & encouraging MRP’s(MRP=Mouthshut Rating Point) for my previous two time-pass reviews. I hope this doesn’t turn out to be a night mare. (As it is, I am an insomniac!!) But, many of my fans (ok! Friends) asked me what is the eternal mantra of such time-pass reviews? How does one know whether the review is time-pass or not? So I delivered an instant brainchild mantra christened as Eternal Déjà vu mantra by none other than My Excellency!. Which goes like Yawn even if its not dawn! If your reviews make others yawn even if it ain’t dawn, then your review qualifies as time pass reviews. Please read further if you are one of my fans (read that as friends.)
History Of Snooker
It is when Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain, a British Army Officer had nothing to do on a wet rainy day and so he started to experiment with this game at British Army office Mess in Jabalpur, India, in 1875.
The name Snooker, it is said, was applied to the game, when a young officer visited Devonshire regiment and explained that first year cadets at Royal Military Academy, where he had trained, were called Snookers
Then, during a game of the new Pool game, when one of the young officers missed a pot, Chamberlain called him a Snooker referring to his lack of skill. Subsequently the name Snooker was adopted for the game itself.
My Early Encounter
Well, I was enjoying my afternoon nap in my vacations when suddenly I felt that someone just lit up a brightest torch in front of my face and of course I woke up to see that it were just the sun rays shining away in their full glory and I took a look outside my room. The scene was as if volumes of sun - rays were spilled from the solar system and all of them accumulated in Planet Earth.
It was a bright day when sun didn’t have clouds around it to talk and so the rays from the Sun were hitting Planet Earth (specifically read that as Ahmedabad) with their full luminosity. Ok! I can see that yawn on your face, but this is what time-pass reviews are all about. Remember, Yawn even if it’s not dawn! Ok! Good. On that day, I saw christina entering that pool parlor and at the very next second I was there in the pool parlor. But Now what? Said I. Suddenly I saw that wallpaper on which was inscribed If you’re in rome, Act as if you are one. Thus, one of my pal and I started to post mortem the game. Although there were many tables, I chose the one with the multi color balls.
Snooker
It basically consists of 15 Red balls and 6 color balls namely yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black. Points did you say? Yeah! A very good question indeed. You deserve a pat on your back. Points are in the following order:
Black 7 Pink 6 Blue 5 Brown 4
Green 3 Yellow 2 Red 1
Did you ask How to play the game?. Well, that was an expected question, So no need of eulogies. Before answering that, let me brief you about some basic terms you need to be conversant with in order to call yourself a Pool Laureate oh! Sorry not laureate but call yourself a Pool literate Laureate is used for persons who play it exceptionally well.( Just for your information and solely for no other purpose, I’m called laureate by critics. o O!)
Non-Skill terms
Cue:. It is a term used for both sticks and balls known as cue stick and cue balls respectively. It is with this cue that you are supposed to hit the red balls first and then the color balls. Color of the cue ball is white.
Chalk:. It is what you apply to the tip of the stick for good striking of the cue ball to other balls.
Rest: Rest is (a stick) that you need when the ball you want to murder with your skill and strength lies in a zone that is inaccessible. If you don’t know when to use it, Try this. When you have a very important match and your girl is just standing in front of you with her eyes wanting that killer shot from you, but you start perspiring owing to the position in which a ball lies and you find yourself insipidly perturbed, this is when you need a rest. The tip of the rest comes in many fashion.
Pocket: Also known as Pots. They are the 6 holes of congruent size and they are the hosts. Meaning to say, they receive the balls that are struck either with force or tenderness.
Cushion: Very well guessed. They are the boundary(inner) of the table that harbors a 100% woolen carpet.
(Basic) Skill Terms
Follow: It is a skill used in all pool games and denotes the condition when you hit the cue ball in such a way that it moves forward after striking the intended-to-strike ball.
Screw Back: It is an antithesis of follow. It means that the cue ball should come backwards after being struck. A difficult shot to play but equally satisfying if you get it right.
Stop: It is a skill that one uses when the cue ball requires to be stopped on a particular spot at which the intended-to-be ball is struck.
How to play?
# Place the cue ball anywhere around the radius of an arc drawn on one half of the table. Strike the red ball. Get one point. Then strike the color ball of your choice.
# If you do not hit the color ball of your choice and the cue ball strikes another color ball then you get negative points equivalent to the points that a ball assumes according to its color. Say, you are intending to hit a blue ball but you hit a pink ball for any reasons, you get 6 negative points. If you hit a red ball instead of a color ball you get 4 negative points. Even if you hit a yellow ball mistakenly, 4 points are deducted. So the cutting points are minimum 4.
# Go on playing until the snooker table seems deserted and you need a glass of water to move on or if people around you are getting bored of your boorish skills of playing snooker.
That’s it! It’s so Simple!
See how simple it was? Please! Please! Don’t get angry. I know I could have told you in the beginning to scroll down and asked you to directly read the main portion of the review, but If you hadn’t read the upper portion, you wouldn’t have got that Million dollar Yawn I was talking about. Yawn is so satisfying. Yawn is macrocosmic. Yawn is ubiquitous. You just have to find opportunities. Yawn is ..................
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