Monday, September 8, 2008
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The Dart League King
In the history of time, at least in the English language (I am including British-speak as English, to be kind) there have been less than 75 books written about darts. Of course there are several about the old Dodge Dart and poison dart frogs but …
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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Please help this dart player’s child!
As a fundraising consultant by vocation and irreverent darts fanatic by avocation I couldn’t help but consider the following appeal sent to me by a friend.
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Dear Friend:
I’m going to be taking part in a charity bike ride in February 2009 …
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Monday, September 1, 2008
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The Third Annual Alien Open
Probably you have heard about the Incident at Roswell…
As the story goes, sometime in July 1947 a New Mexico rancher named William “Mac” Brazel found the debris of a crashed flying saucer in a field about twenty miles out of Roswell proper. In …
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Dartoid's ColumnTuesday, August 5, 2008
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A SERIOUS QUESTION from Dartoid
This is a serious question.
Trust me, if you can.
Feedback should be posted as a comment below (so others can piggyback off the ideas posted) and is required by Monday, August 11.
THE QUESTION: Assuming that a super-powered social networking system, unlike anything …
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Friday, August 1, 2008
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Mobile, Alabama
I am writing this from the Battle Hotel in the heart of the Mobile, Alabama Historic District. I’ve just returned from a night of darts just ten miles up the road, about halfway between Mobile Regional Airport and my hotel, one of the most historic in the …
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Monday, July 7, 2008
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The surprise and the shame
The surprise?
Well, probably you have heard by now that yesterday Phil Taylor smoked his way to the Desert Classic VII championship. You would have heard this from Dartoid’s World except for one thing and that thing is called Dan “Cujo” Lauby.
Dan and …
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Friday, July 4, 2008
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$40,000 will buy a lot of hot dogs
They said he couldn’t do it again but he proved them wrong.
Today, before a cheering crowd of thousands and a nationally televised audience Californian Joey Chestnut crammed sixty-four hot dogs into his face in ten minutes, plus one minute of …
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
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America’s hopes ride on Big Daddy!
The story that could have been – that was already written in my head – almost was today. But in the end it was not to be.
It was the last match of the afternoon…
Briefly behind after the first leg and tied …
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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Young advances. Part struggles.
Coming off his victory in May at the inaugural North American Darts Championship “Big Daddy” Darin Young, for years one of the most popular players on the US circuit, showed today why he is also one of the most feared. His battle this afternoon and …
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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The Las Vegas Caterpillar Gazongas
You learn a lot about local goings-on when covering a darts tournament.
Recently in Las Vegas (motto: “Our women have major league gazongas!”), residents reported an outbreak of giant caterpillars. Perhaps you think there are no giant caterpillars…
As the French say, “au contraire” …
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