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In a spot that's always barred.
this may be no more than referrence to his barred cell...
Coming late to this spot, I believe this refers to the early days of English billiards when you could initiate high breaks by directly pocketing the red off its own spot - and at some time in the development of the game (quite likely around the time that The Mikado was written) a new rule was instituted which barred this action. I once played on an ancient table complete with mahogany score board marked something like Orme & Co Spot-barred Billiards, but of course Joe's right about the allusion to barred windows as the pun.
~ Billy Hardball
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted puce wwh 12/19/02 03:38 PM Re: puce of troy 02/08/03 03:55 PM Re: puce dxb 02/10/03 04:54 PM Re: puce wwh 02/10/03 06:22 PM G&S again wofahulicodoc 02/10/03 07:14 PM Re: G&S again wwh 02/10/03 08:01 PM Re: G&S again wofahulicodoc 02/10/03 09:49 PM Re: G&S again wwh 02/10/03 10:09 PM Re: G&S again tsuwm 02/12/03 09:45 PM Re: G&S again maverick 06/21/03 11:16 PM Re: G&S again of troy 02/12/03 09:18 PM Re: G&S again wwh 02/12/03 09:22 PM Re: G&S again of troy 02/12/03 09:44 PM Speaking of better late than never... Fiberbabe 02/08/04 04:36 PM
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