Dartoid’s Column

December 1, 2001
Column 113
Merry Knicker’s Night To You!!!

It’s Halloween! Or Punky Night, if you live in Somerset, England.

This evening, as we in America toss Tootsie Rolls into sacks thrust at us by sticky little children cleverly disguised as sticky little children in sheets, across the pond in Somerset, the Brits are …

November 1, 2001
Column 112
Off the Oche with Dartoid

I’ve been waiting for the blokes at the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) to call and ask me some of the questions from their special edition quiz, Off the Oche. Of course, I’ve also been waiting for them to ring and invite me to post my …

November 1, 2001
Column 111
Osama Lama Ding Dong

I was intrigued recently when I read that Taliban Foreign Minister Maulvi Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil suggested a little duel to resolve the current world crisis. “I will propose that Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush should take Kalashnikovs and come to a specified place where (the Taliban …

October 1, 2001
Column 110
Thank you Mick Manning!!

If you follow the Cyberdarts’ ListServe you may have read the recent post by Manhattan’s Tina DiGregorio thanking the many darters who have contacted her recently to be sure she was okay. Although she didn’t mention it, I was one of them.

After the phone rang …

It’s been about two years now since I received the call from Tommy “The King” Molina. I’d rung my buddy a week or so earlier to tell him about the model I’d landed from Myrtle Beach.

“Tommy! She’s amazing, man. Name’s Eve. Was a Miss Hawaiian Tropic. Won the Venus Swimwear title. Just did a …

August 1, 2001
Column 108
Cork, Ireland

I’m at a hotel called the Hayfield Manor ploppin’ Alka Seltzer to recover from a couple of nights of darts and Beamish Stout here in Cork, Ireland which, for those of you who were dickin’ around in third grade geography class, is a city somewhere in, well… Ireland. …

July 1, 2001
Column 107
Ban Assholes!!

If you don’t subscribe to the Cyberdarts List Serve — that miraculous organism out there in the Internet ether which, in my case anyway, causes something like a billion e-mail messages to appear on my computer screen each day — then you SHOULD! Run by Rick Osgood down …

June 1, 2001
Column 106
“Beers and Shots” Revisited

It was Greg Cason from the Orlando Pub Darts League who alerted me to the amazing spread about darts that appeared in the April 2, 2001 issue of Sports Illustrated. I dashed off immediately to find a copy. I went to the corner convenience store. Nothing …

May 1, 2001
Column 105
Tampa, Florida

For the past couple of months I’ve been considering a move to Florida — going into business with some old buddies from Tampa. This past week I came down to look around. They took me to a Devil Ray’s baseball game. I’m having second thoughts.

For example, WHAT …

May 1, 2001
Column 104
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

They call it the “Grand Strand” — that alluring, 60-mile string of communities that wanders from the old Little River fishing village to historic Georgetown, the former center of America’s rice empire. I’ll bet you didn’t know that America was once a rice empire?

Years ago …