Dartoid’s Column

June 1, 1999
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The Y2K Crisis

As the steel-tip/soft tip debate rages into the next century there is one absolute fact, one indisputable nexus of thought, to which enthusiasts of both veins of our sport can find no argument. That, of course, is that Hillary Clinton should not pose for Playboy.

No, seriously, …

May 1, 1999
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Toronto, Canada

It was just a couple of months ago that the best game I could find in Toronto was against a fine young homosexual fellow (“not,” to quote Jerry Seinfield, “that there’s anything wrong with that”) named Kevin who dove for his bounceouts. Suffice it to say that I …

March 1, 1999
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Do Dogs Understand Darts?

It occurred to me recently after reading a Dave Barry commentary about whether dogs watch television that it was far past time to address one of the most vital of life’s mysteries. It’s a question that has perplexed the world’s best thinkers ever since the hairy …

March 1, 1999
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Throwin’ with “Bones”

Throwin’ with “Bones” is something my old partner, Chris James, and I talked often of doing.

When I’d return from my travels, often with souvenirs — like the spear once used by an Ugandan elephant poacher, which now hangs on the wall in his restaurant — Chris …

February 1, 1999
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Norfolk, Virginia

In downtown Norfolk, on what’s called the “fashionable Granby Row” (though it’s hard to figure why) is an Irish pub not unlike those to be found in the center of Dublin itself. Called Mo and O’Malley’s (131 Granby Street), this two-story neighborhood haunt is definitely a stop worth …

February 1, 1999
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Houston, Texas

When Cyberdarts guru Rick Osgood suggested I visit him in Houston recently it was for two reasons that I simply couldn’t pass on the invitation. First, it was Osgood and his wife Loretta who originally posed the idea, some five years ago, that I create the Dartoid’s World …

November 1, 1998
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Dart Dreams

A long time ago in a land far away a little boy dreamed. At night on the floor of his barrio he’d leaf through the tattered pages of American picture books and imagine himself outside the lush rainforests, away from the abject poverty of his land. He saw …

September 1, 1998
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Phuket, Thailand

Located in the sparkling waters of the Andaman Sea, just seventy miles by plane from Bangkok, is an island paradise known as the Pearl of Siam. This tropical playground of the rich, formally called Phuket, offers everything, and more, that a visitor could possibly hope for — mountains, …

September 1, 1998
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Bombay, India

Mark Twain once described India as a “land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels… of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps.” Rudyard Kipling wrote of India’s “heat and smells and oils and spices and puffs of …