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A comment on Americans' love of billiards paved the way for synthetic plastics.

Re:Americans' love of billiards paved the way for synthetic ... by toast0 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:28PM (#45595856)
Well, either you're closing your eyes To a situation you do now wish to acknowledge Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated By the presence of a pool table in your community. Ya got trouble, my friend, right here, I say, trouble right here in River City.

-- Harold Hill

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Re:Americans' love of billiards paved the way for synthetic ... by vel0city on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:37PM (#45596715)
Why it's the Uneeda Biscuit made the trouble. Uneeda, Uneeda put the crackers in a package, in a package. The Uneeda Biscuit in an air-tight sanitary package made the cracker barrel obsolete, obsolete
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Re:Americans' love of billiards paved the way for synthetic ... by IAmBroom on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @04:37PM (#45598088)
That's Professor Harold Hill, if you don't mind. I didn't send away 2 bits to the Indiana Online School of Teaching to receive my diploma in two weeks time for nothing.
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