Number Plates

[White Room]

Saw one the other day on a big 4x4, KI55 ME, superb

 

[mikethetile]

we have poo2 cue on the owner of the local snooker club

 

[diamondtiling]

I saw POT 147 years ago on a mercedes.

My hobby is old cars, I have had loads of them, I once went to look at an Austin Cambridge that was for sale, when I got there the number plate was NE 1, straight away I am thinking "Noel Edmonds" will buy this, the car was nearly £500 over its real value but I decided that I would buy it just for the plate, after a little bit of haggling we agreed a price and I left a deposit of £50. I was straight onto Elite numbers who offered me £2500 minimum for the plate.
I returned with a trailer to take the car away, I had the cash in my pocket and then the old guy said the immortal words "its without the private plate, I have had offers for that number for years, its worth at least £3000!"
DOH!!!

I lost my deposit!
😛rrr:😛rrr:😛rrr:

 

[doug boardley]

I've seen POT 147 too Dom, driving around Kendal, Tony Knowles (snooker player from years ago) lives in Windermere so I think it might be his

 

[diamondtiling]

I remember Tony Knowles Doug, I saw the plate around 1990 so he would have been in the spotlight around then if my memory serves me well.

 

[Rob Z]

Dom, Doug, what is the significance of POT 147?

 

[doug boardley]

Dom, Doug, what is the significance of POT 147?

147 is the maximum "break" you can achieve in snooker Rob, fifteen reds followed by a black ball (after every red) and then all the other coloured balls potted in sequence

 

[diamondtiling]

Maximum snooker break Rob, well it can be beaten if a foul occurs.

And you were thinking WEED! don't deny it Rob

:lol:

 

[Rob Z]

Now I get it, thanks guys. I wasn't thinking about pot though.:smilewinkgrin: Over here the codeword for pot is "420". I see a lot of plates with 420 as part of the message.

 

[Rob Z]

Speaking of pool, many years ago I was working for a guy who was GC'ing his own house. I was doing all the bathrooms, the bar top, the kitchen splashes, and so on. The owner asked me to bring in my mason buddy to do some work out on the porch, and so I called Dave and he came over to start working.

This owner fancied himself a real serious pool player. For several days before my buddy came over, all of us on the job had gone up to the local pool hall for a long liquid lunch and to shoot pool. I had gotten tired of hearing him say how good he was so I casually mentioned that my buddy Dave the mason likes to shoot pool now and then. Immediately the owner of the house starts in with how he needs some competition because he is getting rusty because no one will give him a good game.

So, I let him keep running his mouth until the time Dave got to the house to work. I made sure to casually mention to Dave (within earshot of the owner) that it had been a while since he and I last played and that I needed to give him a rematch. What I failed to mention was that Dave and I had shot about 100 games together and I only won 1 game , which was the last one. And that was on a fluke.

So, sh*t-for-brains-customer thinks he is going to beat this guy because he had already played me and beaten me about 10 games out of 15.

So off we go to the pool hall and Dave lets the other guy break. He makes a couple in a row and then misses and easy shot. Dave then runs the table and finishes the game. :lol:

Customer makes some excuses about the cue he is using and asks for another game. Dave sank every ball and our customer got 0.

Next round, same result.:lol:

Round 4, same result.:lol:

On the fifth round, Mr Customer gets about 3-4 in a row. Then he misses a "challenging shot" that "would have been tough for anyone to make".:lol: Then Dave finishes the rest and it's all over.

Fairly quickly Mr Customer realizes he has to get back to the jobsite and get some materials ordered. I couldn't resist so I said Hey, Joe (the carpenter on site) already took care of that material...don't you want to stay here and try a few more with Dave? He is just having a lucky day and it's probably time for him to start missing a few?":lol::lol:

 

[Ajax123]

Similar thin happened to me many years ago when I was about 14 or 15 only I was the know it all in those days. I used to play county league under 16's for Lincolnshire so was reasonably good. Ceraily capable of winning most games in my local British LEgion club where I used to practice. Anyway, one saturday evening this guy comes in and he listens to me boasting and puts his 20p on the table for a game winner stays on and he plays me, absolutely hammers me in the first frame, second frame and third frame.....then he lets me win one and then shows me a few trick shots. Turned out he was England pool champion. I never saw him again but learned some valuable life lessons that night and some really goo trick shots as well.......