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2012/06/02 10:37:42
bapu
JB, it's just a soft rhyme. Sometimes you gotta break the rules to let the world experience your art. 
2012/06/02 11:22:39
bapu
FSF is on hiatus?
2012/06/02 11:25:46
Old55
I hope it isn't a hiatus hernia.  
2012/06/02 15:33:08
drewfx1
Do aliens disguised as humans chuckle when someone says, "the sky's the limit"?
2012/06/02 16:04:50
noldar12
OK, I can't resist this (though I probably should):

A TRUE story regarding a legally blind guy and throwing darts...

I have a cousin who had just purchased a dart board, and set it up in his living room (ok a shorter distance than normal).  He challenged me (the very legally blind guy) to a game of darts.  OK, so I will get creamed, trying to hit that black very blurry barely visible round thing on the wall, but hey, why not?

The only hope I had to not make a total fool of myself was to make a couple test throws, and try to memorize muscle movement. 

After the third game, he had yet to beat me.  In the fourth game, he finally was beating me, and ragging on me something fierce (like wow, on your fourth try, you are finally beating the blind guy).  On my final turn, I somehow threw three triple bullseyes (never done it before, will likely never do it again), so he lost again.  Though this happened several years ago, even after all these years, I remind him of it every once and awhile.
 
Note: I should add that I've never tried to play darts since.  There is no way I could possibly get a better outcome than what happened on that day.
 
Oh, and for the record, regarding the previous posts on the subject: I am NOT at all politically correct about my sight issue, and in no way shape or form took any offense... I've sometimes thought about becoming a baseball umpire, so that when I yell, "Strike three," and the batter replies, "What's the matter ump, are you blind," I would respond, "Sounded like a strike to me, you're ejected from the game."  It would be really fun to walk up behind home plate using my white cane, and take the umpire's position.
2012/06/02 16:14:48
Old55
noldar12


OK, I can't resist this (though I probably should):

A TRUE story regarding a legally blind guy and throwing darts...

I have a cousin who had just purchased a dart board, and set it up in his living room (ok a shorter distance than normal).  He challenged me (the very legally blind guy) to a game of darts.  OK, so I will get creamed, trying to hit that black very blurry barely visible round thing on the wall, but hey, why not?

The only hope I had to not make a total fool of myself was to make a couple test throws, and try to memorize muscle movement. 

After the third game, he had yet to beat me.  In the fourth game, he finally was beating me, and ragging on me something fierce (like wow, on your fourth try, you are finally beating the blind guy).  On my final turn, I somehow threw three triple bullseyes (never done it before, will likely never do it again), so he lost again.  Though this happened several years ago, even after all these years, I remind him of it every once and awhile.
 
Note: I should add that I've never tried to play darts since.  There is no way I could possibly get a better outcome than what happened on that day.

Well done, Jim.  It's always good to have something like that to keep the other guy in line.  
2012/06/02 16:21:16
daryl1968
great thread title - I just HAD to come and post in it
2012/06/02 16:24:40
noldar12
Old55, I have to confess it was fun, and obviously still brings a smile to my face (from the other side, there is also perhaps a bit of a lesson regarding humility).
2012/06/02 16:25:43
Old55
Hey Daryl, 

The main CH page show that you posted something here, but I sure can't find it.  FYI.  

[Edit]

Weird.  I guess there was a delay displaying page 69!  Whoo-hoo!
2012/06/02 16:28:17
Old55
noldar12


Old55, I have to confess it was fun, and obviously still brings a smile to my face (from the other side, there is also perhaps a bit of a lesson regarding humility).

Yes.  Don't use the power lightly.  
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