May 1, 2001
Column 103
Greenwich Village
Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to be so good
They’ll stone ya just a-like they said they would
They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to go home
Then they’ll stone ya when you’re there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must …
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May 1, 2001
Column 102
Charlotte, North Carolina
If you missed the ADO Masters Finals and the Charlotte Open recently in North Carolina (which is a state somewhere in the south, near Lexington) then, let me tell you, you missed a LOT. You missed the nightly poker game in the Presidential Suite. You missed the …
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Dartoid's ColumnApril 1, 2001
Column 101
“Pop” Goes The Power
With the shocking news about England’s nine-time world darts champion, Phil “The Power” Taylor’s, conviction for “fondling” and “groping” a couple of 23-year-old girls still hot off the press, the question inquiring darters all over the world are asking is, “just what is the difference between …
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February 1, 2001
Column 100
Thanks a Ton!
Being as this is my 100th of these little ditties, there are several people to whom I owe a debt of gratitude — who have traveled at least a portion of the crazy path I’ve followed since picking up my first set of darts. Each in their …
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January 1, 2001
Column 99
A Computerized Dart?
Second only to the Asian chick, Lola, on Temptation Island the hottest topic these days is the super-secret invention, code-named “Ginger,” set to be unveiled to the world in 2002 by its multi-millionaire inventor, New Hampshire’s Dean Kamen.
According to the investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston …
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Dartoid's ColumnJanuary 1, 2001
Column 98
Darts Personification
Dart Game
— by Crissi Sweeny
It stared at me, silently challenging me; taunting me with its red eye, it screamed at me to play.
Its eye lit up as I turned on the light.
It silently laughed at me as I stepped up to the line – …
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December 1, 2000
Column 97
National Darts Hall of Fame!
If you care about the sport of darts you must try to find a way to support the efforts of Jim Poliquin, Jerry Umberger, Laurett Meddis, Ed Edwards, Elli Nicoll and other dedicated dart people to create a meaningful National Darts Hall of Fame (NDHoF). …
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December 1, 2000
Column 96
Baseball Players are Wussies!
Next to the Bush/Gore election results in Palm Beach County the most frightening set of numbers I’ve seen recently are: “36-38-40”. No wonder Bill Clinton chases other women.
The most impressive, albeit obvious, statistic in years however, has got to be the one recently published by …
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November 1, 2000
Column 95
“I’m Going to Toledo!”
If you’ve seen the film Summer of ’42 or if you went to high school before the days when a good-night kiss and sex were essentially interchangeable, you will appreciate the range of emotions I felt recently when I, sort of like Hermie in the Summer …
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October 1, 2000
Column 94
Professor Poopypants and the Royal North American Open!
Like many of you, over the years I have picked up a book here or there and gradually accumulated quite a little library of reading about our sport. I now have all six books that have ever been written about darts. Without …
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