Racking up some unusual nicknames at local pool halls
Jonathan HuttI was told that “Hutt” sounds like “hut” and a shed is a sort of hut. Get it?Some nicknames need an explanation. Maybe the best ones do. It’s not much of a stretch to call a tall person “Stretch.” But to call him “Cirrus,” after the highest clouds in the atmosphere, shows a bit of creativity.Kensington’shas spent a lot of time thinking about nicknames. He shoots pool, and pool halls are veritable petri dishes of nicknames.
Or at least they used to be. Every week, Andy drives to Elkridge, Md., to play in a tournament at a billiard hall called the Triple Nines.“I'm the only player out there who doesn't go by his real name,” he wrote. “Since most of the other players there are about half my age , I guess you might say my name has been grandfathered in.”“My own moniker was given to me when I walked into Roman Billiards in Silver Spring one day in 1967 wearing a Montgomery County taxi cab badge,” Andy wrote.
It doesn’t matter that Andy actually drove a cab for a scant three months while he was waiting for his draft notice. The name lives on. Andy is a bit of a collector. He used to own a used bookstore in Bethesda. A die-hard pool room habitue, he says he more or less lived with a cue in his hands for long stretches from the late 1960s to the early ’80s. He played in Durham, N.C., when he was at Duke and was a regular at the aforementioned Roman Billiards, as well as Brunswick Billiards at 14th and Irving streets NW, Guys and Dolls in Silver Hill and Jimmy’s Golden Q at Seventh and T NW, right across from the Howard Theatre.
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