Klarinet Archive - Posting 000390.txt from 2002/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Teachers (was LeBlanc Eternite)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:25:54 -0500

At 11:02 AM 2/20/2002 -0500, George Kidder wrote:
>I believe that "chalk one up" is a billiard term, as in keeping score, but
>I have not looked it up yet in any dictionary.

Or it may be from the early days of baseball, etc, when the score was kept
on a scoreboard that was actually a large blackboard marked with chalk. In
billiards, the only thing you chalk up is the cue.

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