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Dry Gulch Pete
Nov 23, 2009, 5:10:02 AM11/23/09
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On Nov 21, 4:52 pm, "John Dean" <john-d...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
> Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
> > On Nov 20, 1:12 pm, Halmyre <no.s...@this.address> wrote:
> >> In article <77196d11-9840-429b-a91b-c97e0fe24008
> >> @s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>, pacif...@btopenworld.com says...
>
> >>>http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
>
> >>> #736 ;-)
>
> >> I take it the answer to the quiz isn't actually in the title of the
> >> thread?
>
> >> --
>
> > Yep a cannon is a crafty feat in Billiards - Americans would not know
> > that!
>
> Pity you showed a pool table then.
> And I wouldn't shout too loudly about the Yanks. 'cannon' in this sense is
> almost certainly an ignorant corruption of the original term 'carom' which
> the septics *do* use.
> --
> Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
> > On Nov 20, 1:12 pm, Halmyre <no.s...@this.address> wrote:
> >> In article <77196d11-9840-429b-a91b-c97e0fe24008
> >> @s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>, pacif...@btopenworld.com says...
>
> >>>http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
>
> >>> #736 ;-)
>
> >> I take it the answer to the quiz isn't actually in the title of the
> >> thread?
>
> >> --
>
> > Yep a cannon is a crafty feat in Billiards - Americans would not know
> > that!
>
> Pity you showed a pool table then.
> And I wouldn't shout too loudly about the Yanks. 'cannon' in this sense is
> almost certainly an ignorant corruption of the original term 'carom' which
> the septics *do* use.
> --
Yup - shortened form of the French 'carambole' from the Spanish
'carambola' says my Concise OED!
By 'Yanks' you must mean our transatlantic cousins! :-D
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