Snooker Tour Championship Live

[firstdefence]

Just been watching the Snooker Tour Championship Live and Ronny O'sullivan was sporting the Affinity Logo and name, go Ronny.

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[Aammppaa]

Yeah but he's also promoting Coral Draw

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Aammppaa said:

Yeah but he's also promoting Coral Draw

I wonder what kind of drawings of coral he wants to promote ... photorealistic, impressionistic, pencil sketches, or what? 

I also wonder what all the hoopla about the "coral cup" is all about. It seems to me a cup made of coral would be a poor choice to drink anything from, being rough, porous, & not very sanitary.

[Ron P.]

1 hour ago, Aammppaa said:

Yeah but he's also promoting Coral Draw

No he's not. That says Coral not Corel, the latter is the corporation that has CorelDraw, among many other. Also that's not even close to their branding colors or logo.

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

No he's not. That says Coral not Corel, the latter is the corporation that has CorelDraw, among many other. Also that's not even close to their branding colors or logo.

I think @Aammppaa was joking, as I was with my lame play on words about drawing coral or making cups out of it.

[firstdefence]

46 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I think @Aammppaa was joking, as I was with my lame play on words about drawing coral or making cups out of it.

The clue is in the wink Ron, a play on the word and the juxtaposition of the affinity logo and a word that is similar sounding and as it happens rather topical with the release of Coral CorelDraw on Mac.

[R C-R]

Just curious, but can someone tell me what "Coral" is a reference to in the "Coral Tour Championship" name? 

Snooker isn't very popular in the US, probably because there aren't many full sized snooker tables in billiard parlors (a.k.a. "pool halls" in US speak), so I knew nothing about this series until I read about it here. 

[Alfred]

30 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Just curious, but can someone tell me what "Coral" is a reference to in the "Coral Tour Championship" name? 

Coral is a major UK bookmaker. 

[v_kyr]

9 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Coral is a major UK bookmaker. 

Nah no way, it's a German laundry detergent ...

[firstdefence]

My Grandad worked in a bookies (Bookmakers) I used to take his bacon sarnies (Sandwiches) round and could literally walk under the smoke that was in there, a hand would descend out of the smoke and take the sarnies and disappear into the smoke and then the hand would reappear with a sixpence, then it was off to the sweet shop el pronto lol! 

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, Alfred said:

Coral is a major UK bookmaker. 

Interesting. In the US, except for Nevada bookmaking is generally illegal, so it is unlikely a bookmaker could sponsor anything like the Snooker Tour or that the players would be allowed to display the logos of any such company.

But aside from that, I wonder why O'sullivan wore the Affinity logo.

[carl123]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

But aside from that, I wonder why O'sullivan wore the Affinity logo.

Money.

[Old Bruce]

14 hours ago, Alfred said:

Coral is a major UK bookmaker. 

Oh, so Coral is a publisher. Makes sense now. [ignorance-is-bliss emoticon]

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

Oh, so Coral is a publisher. Makes sense now. [ignorance-is-bliss emoticon]

This is a good example of why the English language has never made much sense & it probably never will.

Consider that a "bookmaker" is a very different thing from a "book maker."  In the US we say a bookmaker makes "book" but not "books." In an earlier post @firstdefence said his grandfather worked in a "bookies," meaning in a Bookmakers establishment, but in the US a "bookie" is a person, never a place. The occupation of a bookie is very different from that of a booker. "Book" has at least a dozen different meanings in different contexts, some of which (like the books of the Bible, which is itself a book, or things like scripts that may never be published in book form) are so self-referential or vague that they border on the absurd.

[Old Bruce]

6 minutes ago, R C-R said:

This is a good example of why the English language has never made much sense & it probably never will.

Consider that a "bookmaker" is a very different thing from a "book maker."  In the US we say a bookmaker makes "book" but not "books." In an earlier post @firstdefence said his grandfather worked in a "bookies," meaning in a Bookmakers establishment, but in the US a "bookie" is a person, never a place. The occupation of a bookie is very different from that of a booker. "Book" has at least a dozen different meanings in different contexts, some of which (like the books of the Bible, which is itself a book, or things like scripts that may never be published in book form) are so self-referential or vague that they border on the absurd.

You forgot to mention mis-hearing. Yonks ago I thought there was a band called "Bookie Tea and the MGs"

[IanSG]

2 hours ago, R C-R said:

but in the US a "bookie" is a person, never a place. 

Mais non - it's "bookies", not "bookie".  It should be "bookie's" for the betting shop, but "bookie" is always the person.  It's in the same vein as visiting the grocer's or the butcher's.  I recently confused (ish) an American friend by talking about being "in hospital" rather than "in the hospital".

[Old Bruce]

48 minutes ago, IanSG said:

Mais non - it's "bookies", not "bookie".  It should be "bookie's" for the betting shop, but "bookie" is always the person.  It's in the same vein as visiting the grocer's or the butcher's.  I recently confused (ish) an American friend by talking about being "in hospital" rather than "in the hospital".

I was inhospitable (but I got lonely, so now I am more friendly and outgoing).

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, IanSG said:

Mais non - it's "bookies", not "bookie".  It should be "bookie's" for the betting shop, but "bookie" is always the person.

Hmmm. At least in the US, "bookie's" would be considered a possessive form, indicating something belonging to a bookie (the person). For the same reason, we would not write that we were going to the grocer's or butcher's because that would leave open the question of what thing of the grocer or butcher we were going to. It would also imply a personal relationship with the grocer or butcher, which is unlikely here in the land of supermarkets owned & run by corporations where most people shop for food (& a bunch of other stuff).

Of course, we also park on driveways & drive on parkways, & here a "car park" would be a park for cars, not where we park our cars near stores. We call that a "parking lot" because it is a lot (a plot of land), & a park is something landscaped (as are our parkways). 

[Old Bruce]

In England it rains so much cars needs boots.

[chakko007]

On 3/20/2019 at 8:25 PM, firstdefence said:

Just been watching the Snooker Tour Championship Live and Ronny O'sullivan was sporting the Affinity Logo and name, go Ronny.

Nice catch. Actually, i'm watching his match vs. Judd Trump right now on Youtube.

[AlanPickup]

Bookmakers are also known as Turf Accountants, but not sure what sort of grass they count. When "Bookies" shops were illegal they had Bookie's Runners who would take the bets in pubs and clubs and "lay them on" with the bookie.