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Since when did darts on telly become a shit version of Twitter? It seems as if most of the audience go and “watch” the darts simply to wave stupid pieces of paper with “hilarious” messages and badly drawn illustrations in front of the camera, to get their cryptic message on the telly. Unfortunately, as tonight’s tournament is being broadcast on ITV4, it’s likely to only reach an audience of 37, before they all end up in a bin bag This seems a little bit of a waste, so I shall increase that viewing figure to at least 39.
“HEXHAM M.A.G.S ON TOUR + ERIC + LIL” (Whoever wrote this must have aching arms, as they held it up for most of the night)
“HI EVE” (written on a paper plate)
“UP THE PHILLI I.P.F RED LION WHO ARE YOU?”
Some guy i constantly holding uo a sign with “PETE” written on it, and an arrow pointing down to PETE.
“LESTERS YOU OWE ME BEER”
“REAGN” (Could this be Regan spelled badly?)
“SHABBA”. How very 1994.
“HELLO MRS KINIEVEL” (Wonder if her first name is Fu?)
“MORE BLING THAN BOBBY GEORGE”
“KAREN FEED THE CATS”
“HELLO WOODHORN I LOVE IAN COOK ALWAYS AND FOREVER”. (I can’t read the rest of this one because it’s upside down)
“HOPE YOUR ASLEEP MIKEY & BAILEY” (I am aware of the you’re / your error in their writing)
“WILL THERE BE A POWER CUT OR DOES PHIL HAVE THE POWER?”
“IM THE ONLY SOBER 1 HERE!” (Seems like someone could do with a lesson from Bob The Angry Flower)
“LOVE CONTRACT”
“MOUSE AND BAZZA FEEL THE POWER” (Oh, I don’t know where to start with that one)
“IM WITH JESUS”
“HELLO UNCLE BILL” (Hello from me too!)
“GAYNOR” (written on what looks like a napkin – the stocks of cards must be running lowl)
“SOLAR POWER” (complete with a news article of someone catching a large fish… er, righto. This appeared before Phil Taylor lost in the Semi Final, obviously)
“HELLO KATE + JP” (The fudge? Someone knows I’m watching? Hello! I don’t know who Kate is, by the way)
“PROPER DARTS CORPORATION” (No, dear. The P in PDC stands for “Professional”)
“LOVEMAN N.D.F NO 1 ! !” (Note the exclamation marks on this one were huge. Maybe the writer just liked the smell of the marker pen)
“WE’VE FINISHED WORK AT LAST!” (Golly, I’m so proud of you.)
Someone also flashed their tits at the camera. I love you, realtime-pause on Sky+. (EDIT: Someone searched for “paul nicholson darts supporter big tits” on Google and reached this site. This is the proudest moment of my life.
“PLATEFACE” (Hahahahaha!)
“WELL DONE VIPPA” (I prefer my Vippa medium-rare.)
“MARKO THE BEST STAGE MANAGER IN THE WORLD!” (This guy’s been holding this thing all night, but was always too far away from the camera to be legible. For some reason, the cameraman thought it deserved a closeup. I’m a little disappointed, if I’m honest. Dale, Kezia says hi.)
“I LOVE YOU GREAT MATE” (Someone’s pissed?)
“FOR SALE SET OF 3 DARTS, HARDLY USED, 1 CAREFUL OWNER, CONTACT…. PHIL….”
“180″. (Something which I haven’t mentioned is that the cards have a blank area on one side, and a printed “180″ on another, with the sponsors name on, meaning that if a player scores a 180, the sponsors get a load of free advertising when the masses wave it in front of the camera. For some reason, someone decided to scrawl 180 on the blank side, whichmeans they either weren’t aware of the afore-mentioned pre-printed 180, or they didn’t like the sponsor. Or it’s one of the few who really, really couldn’t think of an inane message to scribble).
“140″ (Oh… clever!)
“LET THE DOGS OUT MATT AND STOP PLAYING POOL” (If he’s playing pool, how can he be watching the darts?)
“PHIL MY BOL FOR TEAM LEADER!” (You just know that guy is one of the people who, at a night out such as the darts, will sit there and just talk about work.)
“THERE’S A NASTY SMELL OF “GIT” IN THE VACINATY”. (You should have to pass a spell test before they give you these cards…)
“I’M NOT ILL! SORRY! I LIED!” (And you broadcast this to the nation? On ITV4? Don’t worry, your job’s safe.)
“HELLO MANSFIELD”
“HI DARLING LYN WONT BE HOME 4 DINNER. P.S DONT GIVE TO POPPY” (Wonder if there’s a reward for the safe return of missing apostrophes…)
“GOLF SALE <—-” (Well, someone had to do it!)
“RON JEREMY FAN CLUB”
“I [HEART] TARDS” (How very mature…)
“LESTER CAN YOU PLEASE PICK UP DAD HE’S PI**ED” (I hope Lester gets the message.)
There were probably loads more, but these are the only ones I could be arsed to type. Paul Nicholson won in the end.
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Would you beilieve it’s almost 2 months since I actually sat down here, and wrote about what’s going on in my life? the rest of the postings have been “recaps”, “best ofs”, or posts which I’d written well in advance, and then set the publish timer to look like I’ve actually been giving time to this site. Crafty old me. Oh yes, and I installed an automatic Twitter thing, which in hindsight was a stupid idea, and I probably should disable it.
Anyway, I have been, and still am, incredibly busy with stuff, which is one of the reasons I’ve not been updating this, plus I’ve had writers block up to the eyeballs. My “drafts” folder is, as usual, full of little snippets of posts I started, then never finished.
Music is one of the things which has been seriously influencing the past couple of months, especially an 8-second clip of a Kraftwerk song.
I was at work about six months ago. Ian, who sits behind me, had a bit of a “Kraftwek” night, and was playing some of their tunes. An 8 second piece of music got stuck in my head. It had been used as a sample in another song, and could I hell remember which song it was. I later found that the song he was playing was “The Robots”, but even after an extensive interwebs search, I couldn’t find out where else I’d heard it. I knew it was in a song from the 1990s.
Off to #speccy, nope, nobody had heard it there, not even Marko who is normally good at this type of stuff. I uploaded it to my phone, and played it to everyone I knew, in the vain hope that it would jog the memory. I even set it as my ringtone, thinking that if someone rang me, and I heard it out of the blue, I’d pick up on it straight away.
Sadly not. I joked to Chris (who also didn’t know it) about me hearing it when I least expect it, totally out of the blue.
That was months ago, fast forward to yesterday. After looking for a few things, I happened to spy my old video recorder in a box. It hadn’t been used for about 6 years, not since my TV card died. I hooked it up to the telly downstairs, and played some old tapes with the intention of transferring them to DVD. There was one particular tape I was after saving. A non-descript looking tape, with a ripped label. Amongst hours of me playing in the garden as a kid, with our old black and white camera, was the very last edition of “Northern Life”. Halfway through, they had an “outtake reel”, with music dubbed over it.
The track was a song I liked, instantly recognisable to me anyway. All of a sudden, 32 seconds into it, there it was. THAT BLOODY KRAFTWERK SAMPLE! I was delighted. And unsurprised that my prediction was right.
The Kraftwerk tune was “The Robots, and the sing I remembered was “I Can’t Stand It by Twenty 4 Seven. Chris shuld be bitterly disappointed that he didn’t get it, but then he doesn’t read here anymore!
Speaking of which, it was Wayne’s 30th the other day. I sent him an email, but it looks as if he’s gone AWOL again.
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