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Question by Mike-O
Submitted on 7/28/2003
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What's the difference between pool and billiards? (that is in the Music Man, why is Professor Hill making a big deal about a "pool" table with "pockets" in the "billards" parlor?)

Answer by Nicky
Submitted on 9/26/2003
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Billiards is a much larger table with smaller balls, making it a tougher game. If you compare tables in a bar, which are usually pool tables, with what you would find in a billiard hall, you will see the difference.

Answer by deadeye
Submitted on 3/26/2004
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Billiards is pool without pockets, usually the cloth on a billiards table is much faster. the object in billiards (3 cushion billiards)is to hit the object ball then go three rails and hit the other ball, or hit 3 rails and hit both object balls with the cue ball. ( these are called caroms) a regulation pool table is 4 1/2 X 9 the same as a billiard table. so the difference isnt the size of the table, they're just 2 different games

Answer by poolman
Submitted on 11/29/2004
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billiards is much different pool because i say it is :P

Answer by sssasakaza
Submitted on 5/8/2005
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There is no difference

Answer by Harold Hill
Submitted on 10/6/2005
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Wow, how convieniant. I was just about to go searching through Google because I'll be playing Harold Hill in my upcoming High School production of the Music Man. My teachers tried to tell me they're the same game, and the whole thing is supposed to be funny, to which i said, "maybe nowadays people think they're the same, but in 1912, they'd know the difference"

Answer by breez
Submitted on 2/21/2006
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i have absolutely no clue. but i know there's a difference in size and smaller balls. but thats about it...

Answer by Harold Hill
Submitted on 9/19/2006
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Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table. Pockets that mark the diff'rence Between a gentlemen and a bum, With a capital "B," And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!

Answer by apqorla
Submitted on 9/21/2006
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(To answer the second question...Professor Hill makes a big deal about it because scandal sells. It has nothing to do with the game itself. "YOUR KIDS ARE CORRUPT, BUY STUFF FROM ME TO SAVE THEM!!!!!!")

Answer by nate
Submitted on 12/18/2006
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how big is a regulation pool table

Answer by smartypants
Submitted on 6/20/2007
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you can swim in a pool and it can be indoors or outdoors. a billirds table is to play billiards on you fool! (and is rarely seen outdoors)

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