Joe Perry (snooker Player)
Joe Perry (born 13 August 1974 in Wisbech) is an English professional snooker player. He is often referred to as the 'Fen Potter', nicknamed 'the Gentleman' for his likeable attitude and 'The Man from Sicily' for his dark Mediterranean-esque features. He has run courses to teach people to play.
Perry climbed the rankings steadily after turning professional in 1991, and reached the top sixteen for the first time in 2002. He has spent four seasons in its lower reaches and three more just outside of it, in the top 20.
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“While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper’s axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, “By George, I’ll bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that.” These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You’ll admit there’s always the possibility of some employee becoming disgruntled over some fancied injustice. Dissatisfaction always leads to temptation. There’s always purchasers for valuable secrets.”
—Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Donald Jordan, Murder by Television, trying to bribe Perry into revealing Professor Houghland’s secret (1935)