Yes, it looked just like that
I asked ChatGPT to give me an image of a friendly local petanque game, and this was the result. Yep, pretty much. I was at the village petanque game earlier and I’m now settling comfortably into a G&T.
I advised a player to ‘put a little English’ on the ball and then realized English people do not use this expression. So I axed the robot and it said the term came from billiards in the 19th C. It means to knock the cue ball a glancing blow so it spins. It’s a trick Americans learned from visiting English billiards player, and it stuck. I always thought it was a baseball term.
Dead Pool tomorrow, you betcha.
Posted: June 25th, 2026 under personal.
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