03-17-2007, 10:01 AM
Quote:I found the following two press releases on Patrick Chaplin's website. Mr Chaplin is a Dart Historian in the UK and I am wonderingif the following can be taken seriously.
If its true the idea that modern darts is descended from the traditions of the English longbowman is in doubt.
[url:964jt5i4]http://web.ukonline.co.uk/patrick.chaplin/Press_releases/urgent_press_release.htm[/url]
[url:964jt5i4]http://web.ukonline.co.uk/patrick.chaplin/Press_releases/urgent_press_release2.htm[/url]
Sam Kimpton
I'm no historian, nor do I even claim to be any kind of language nazi, of any form. However, words like"dartefacts" and "Dartus Maximus"?? Come on, might as well, be calling your well endowed friend 'biggus dickus'.
...and the account of a dart board that has, basically, an identical layout to a modern competition dartboard?
Now, I'm not doubting ALL of the information in that article. Who knows, maybe someone did find a couple well preserved Plumbata and some form of target not too far away. However, this just sounds way too much like a reporter who is really desperate to sell a newspaper, or a dart player who feels inferiority with his sport.
By the way, I don't even buy into modern dart contests deriving from archery. Daggers, axes, and spears were being thrown at targets for training at least as long as arrows had been being shot at them.
Marcus Julius Germanus
m.k.a. Brian Biesemeyer
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m.k.a. Brian Biesemeyer
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