| Brian Barratt Blind Pairs Competition . . . | Hi Everyone, please can I ask that you all support the Bryan Barrett Memorial Cup Blind Draw Pairs Competition at the Railway Club, Cowick Street, next Sunday, February 29th, signing in at 12:30 to be sure of an entry. It is free but a donation would be great, ALL the money raised will go to the RNIB. "Olly And I" are really pleased to be sponsoring the Cup and the Trophies and I'm sure that with everyone turning up the day will be a huge success. Bryan "IS" a "Legend" and what a darts player he was, in fact what a sportsman and a fantastic family man he was, this will go some way towards his memory living on within darts in Exeter. The Carling Cup Final will be on and various draws will be held on the game. Thank you Very Much and see you All next Sunday. - Best wIshes, Martin Roads. |
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| Pat on the back! | Hi all. I would like to congratulate Tony on doing a superb job on this web-site. The tables are up to date and the match reports are spot on. Keep up the good work Tony. - Andy Coles, St Thomas B. - Ah, bit embarassing this but nice to be appreciated. Thanks Andy. - WebEd. |
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| They say nostalgia's a thing of the past . . . | From Joe Sweney . . . Dear WebEd, How's This For Nostalgia?It took five minutes for the TV to warm up.Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school. You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels. You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time. And you didn't pay for air. And, you got trading stamps. Washing Powder had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed. . . and they did it! When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car.Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger.When being sent to the head's study was nothingcompared to the fate that awaited the student at home. Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! Who can still remember Mr Pastry, 6.5 Special, The Army Game , Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Emergency Ward 10, the Lone Ranger, Hancock's Half hour, Trigger and Sgt Bilko. Sweet cigarettes, Coca Cola in bottles, You're never alone with a Strand. Blackjacks and bubblegum. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops. Newsreels before the film. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Exeter 3489). Andy Pandy. Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records. 78 RPM records! Green Shield Stamps. Adding Machines. Do You Remember a Time When . . . decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'chickenpox'? Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a catapault? Saturday morning TV wasn't 30-minute commercials for action figures? The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Anyone got any more? - Joe. |
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| We're legal | Following a complaint to the League regarding the throw at Alphington Sports Club Laurie Parkhouse visited the club last Tuesday and conducted the officially-recognised measurement. I am pleased to report that the throw conformed to the rules. It is disappointing however that the team who complained didn’t have the courtesy to mention that they were unhappy with the throw at the time they played before complaining. I won’t embarrass the team in question. – Tony Grabham. |
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| The Parkhouse Family - they are fantastic! | Dear WebEd, I would just like to say what a fantastic family they are. Yes the Parkhouse family. Three times I have played in the Secretary's Cup competition and each year it gets better. Laurie, Rose, Richard and Cheryl are great people, as players we all get a programme of the order of play, that's nothing perhaps to most people but we have our names on them too. You have Laurie running around for nine weeks running the comps., Richard, Rose and Cheryl for nine weeks keeping results, high scores and checkouts. Then on finals night there are trophies for all players, money and the programme. All nice little touches, with Cheryl's expert art and design, Laurie and Rose's patience and time being tried and tested for nine weeks and young Richard waiting to do the scores. What a huge asset this family is to Exeter's darts scene. Without people like this there would be no good comps. to play in let alone run well. Yep, that's right the Parkhouse Family. Exeter darts people: you want to thank and look after this family, they do lots more for you than you may well think. Keep up the great work guys, lots of competition organisers could learn loads from you wonderful family. Kind regards, Justin Pipe |
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| How to get your view on the site | All you have to do to get your view up here is to email the WebEd at webeditor@exeterdarts.co.uk and before you can say Eric Bristow your message will be here for all the world to see!! Messages can, if you like for a bit of fun, be published under a nick-name but real name must accompany the email to WebEd or your message will not be put up. Just a couple of things though, try to be constructive . . . and no bad language please! |
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