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play pool

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To play pool means to compete in the cue sport of pool on a table using cues and balls. Players aim and strike the cue ball to pocket balls by rules like eight-ball. It is often a relaxed social game in bars, pool halls, and family rooms.

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Have you ever seen those globes where you can feel the bumps on them? You can feel the mountains? That is baloney. They have to greatly exaggerate those mountains. If you shrank the Earth down to the size of a cue ball to play pool with, the Earth would be rounder and smoother than the cue ball. Kent Hovind

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