Dartoid’s Column

March 1, 2004
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Chengdu, China

Fly two hours north from where I threw darts last night and you’ll be shiverin’ in a Mongolian snow drift. Head the same distance due west and you’ll be walkin’ to the board through goat dirt.

Set in the majestic foothills of the towering Himalayas, the original city …

February 1, 2004
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Pae-por

A famous author once observed…

“The heartland of Southeast Asia has always been on the edges of civilization. The great empires, such as the Pagan in Burma, Sukhothai in Thailand and Angkor in Cambodia, were built in the plains, where rice grows easily and there are trade routes to …

January 1, 2004
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A Whole Lot of Bits about Something

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 unfortunate thing.

There is a boring, monotonous, similarity — a predictable, formulaic, uniformity — to many of the darts books …

November 5, 2003
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“Don’t Know Much About H-I-S-T-O-R-Y…”

Back in tenth grade I nearly flunked Western Civilization. This is because I thought the world began in the Wild West, somewhere among the buffalo on the other side of the Mississippi River. John Wayne was in charge.

I didn’t care then and I sure …

November 1, 2003
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They Played Conkers, not Darts!

Something like four hundred years ago a small group English people hopped into a boat.

You’ve probably heard about it.

They sailed all the way to Cape Cod to have Thanksgiving dinner with our Indians before converting them to the Christian Faith and then killing …

October 1, 2003
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Hairy Ears

Okay, so I’m fifty years (and one month and four days) old.

I’m not keeping track of time. Really. I don’t care. I DON’T!!

It doesn’t bother me at all. Not a bit.

Not even an itsy bitsy teenie weenie bit.

It DOESN’T!!

I feel the same as …

September 1, 2003
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The Top Ten Darts Websites in the WORLD!

I receive a lot of e-mails from people asking questions about the sport of darts.

I try to be as helpful as I can.

“S’up, Dahtoid? Yo. I be new ta da game but wants ta learn. Name’s Antonio. From Joisey. Where’s …

September 1, 2003
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The Pub of Life

It’s a funny game, darts. Life.

You can spend years practicing and honing your skills so when you need them, when you absolutely have to stick the double bull — or do whatever it is you need to succeed — you can do so at will. …

August 1, 2003
Column 146
My First Book!

Joanne Kathleen Rowling is her name. She was born in 1965 in an oddly-named little town called Chipping Sodbury. It’s in England. So that explains that. It’s just down the lane from Cucumber Up the Bum.

As a young girl she loved to write. She started her …