Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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Nicole Watson leads the MMDL back to greatness
I’ve just returned to Tampa from the heart of the once famous, then infamous and, now, on the road to becoming great again Minute Man Dart League…
I was lured to Boston by what I thought was an offer to throw …
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Dartoid's ColumnThursday, October 9, 2008
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Toodles SEWA!
After months of consideration, the other day I quit participating as a poster at the popular SEWA website. I posted my reason for doing so in what I felt was a helpful and constructive manner. I have since been bombarded with e-mails from people wanting to know …
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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Darts – from Alcatraz to the Eagle’s Drift
Rule #5 on the “Rock” – at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary – was Rule Number One: “You are entitled to food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention. Anything else you get is a privilege.” And “anything else” certainly didn’t include a beer and …
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
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Septuagenarian George Silberzahn pens another WINNER!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – you never quite know what to expect when you pick up a book about darts. We’ll, actually you pretty much do. That’s the frustrating thing. Most of them are boring!
Like mine.
But …
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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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Dartoid's ColumnMonday, 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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