Dartoid’s Column

November 15, 2005
Column 202
How to Become a Superior Chalker

The Ten Commandments for Keeping Score

Scorekeepers SHALL NOT:

1. Talk while keeping score!
2. Move about while keeping score. Stand still!
3. Look at the shooter. Stand facing the board!
4. Call out a score, of one dart or all three – unless …

November 1, 2005
Column 200
Old Stoneface

Imagine my surprise… my curiosity… my CONCERN… when I arrived home the other day to hear my wife, casually mind you, say: “a package came for you today; it’s in a brown paper wrapper.”

Oh. Oh.

A BROWN PAPER WRAPPER! What could it be?

I picked the small …

October 24, 2005
Column 197
The World Series of Darts is ON!

Hurricane Wilma is banging her way through Florida as I write this and if you read some sort of sexual innuendo into that you’re probably just a beer-swilling darts player.

Which is GOOD NEWS…

…because the rumors are TRUE!

Yes darts fans, you …

October 15, 2005
Column 196
So You Want to Throw Darts on the MOON?

With all the drama and danger in the world these days – terrorism, tsunamis, monster hurricanes, and the spiraling rise in the price of gasoline – you’ve probably been deep in thought, contemplating life, the future, and wondering just exactly what …

October 1, 2005
Column 195
Andy Fairclough – Master of Horror (and Darts)

In September 2003 I wrote a column called the Top Ten Darts Websites in the World. In hindsight, I owe a several thousand apologies.

As I don’t read, write or speak in any language but English, for me to have suggested that …

September 1, 2005
Column 194
Pub 1418 and the Philippine Darters Reunion

Jun de la Cruz. Jake Ubaldo. Darren Liwanag. Leo “King Leo” Gonzalez. Joel Singsong. Caesar and “Boy” Eribal. Cayetano “Tanny” Gonzalez. Ike Borja. Luis Bustamante. Egay Alejandro. Renato Mauricio. Paeng Musiko. Gene Shoaf. Rich Herrera. Mel Ponce. Ramon “Mon” Sabalboro. Freddie Deen. Ricky …

August 1, 2005
Column 193
The General and Mr. Magoo

Sitting at the table next to me at dinner tonight was a tall, gray-haired man. About seventy years of age, his hair was cropped tight, military style. He was dressed casually in a blue, short sleeve shirt, pressed beige Dockers, and black loafers. Back home …