Sunday, February 5, 2012
Column HR64
In the end, it was all perpadedic!
When the Old Dart Coach was starting out in the “Ad Biz” he enjoyed making up words for use when preparing documents that would be read by the “three piece suits” on the 8th floor of D’Arcy Advertising. Most of them attended …
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Column 426
It Doesn’t Get Nuttier Than This!
It will come as no surprise that in almost two decades of writing about the sport of darts I’ve been threatened with lawsuits several times. Words intended to capture the joy and camaraderie of the sport and promote it have on occasion prompted …
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Column 425
Texas Darters to take on World Record!
I’m headed for Dallas soon so, Debbie, take note: you can find me at Rob’s Billiards & Sports Bar in Ft. Worth (13930 Trinity Blvd.). It’s a classy joint with beer.
And darts.
Beginning at noon on May 5, Rob’s will be …
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Column HR63
It ain’t the World Darts Fraud… but the PDC World Cup draw SUCKS!
Most baseball fans know the term “dog days” of summer. In darts it’s the “dog days” of winter. Not a bunch going on early in the early part of the year either in Europe or the …
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Column 424
Who’s the Real Darts World Champion?
Last July, I wrote in this space…
For years Dartoid’s World has made the case that the center of the darts universe has been shifting. Now it has.
I have written that the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) should wake up and smell the …
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Column 423
Bullshit at the “World’s Top Darts Forum”
Sometime back, the following post was made by one of the senior moderators at The Website That Shall Not Be Named – which today bills itself as the “World’s Top Web Forum.” Probably the principals also think the world is flat.
I …
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Column HR62
The curse of the fickle finger… and other stuff!
Sports fans in the USA (and that’s what counts) are aware of the curse of a Sports Illustrated cover…
Being an athlete and appearing on the cover of SI moves a career in the direction of wearing a nametag when …
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Column 422
An Open Letter about DARTS to Kim Jong-un
Dear Jong-un…
Please accept my deepest condolences to you and your family on the death of your father and also my apology for addressing you informally. I mean no disrespect. I write in friendship to ask for an invitation to come …
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Column HR61
Merry Christmas… and don’t hit on a chick named Holly with an Adam’s apple!
‘Tiz that time of the year when we join together to sing at the top of our baby voices, “Deck the halls with balls from Holly.”
Balls from Holly?
Well yes, as Holly use to …
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Column 421
Eddie Norman – Darts Ambassador
When I read Frau Charis Mutschler’s hervorragend recent interview with Eddie Norman for Global Darts I immediately sent off a message asking if I could reprint the interview at Dartoid’s World. To say I was pleased to receive her okay would be an understatement……
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