Bobby George and Dr. Patrick Chaplin: Scoring for Show, Doubles for Dough
Bobby George and Dr. Patrick Chaplin: Scoring for Show, Doubles for Dough
Bobby George's Darts Lingo
Clacton on Sea: Appex Publishing, 2011.
ISBN 978-1-907792-98-4
To be sure all of us have wondered once in a while what the one or other dart-term or dart phrase really means and were it originated. At times one
had been lucky and found in a dart book a supplement where a few terms were explained.
Fortunately for us dart fans Bobby George and Dr. Patrick Chaplin took the view, that the special darts language deserves it to be treated less shabby and now published a whole book that has the focus on it. The result is a kind of dictionary of darts terminology which tries to explain origin and meaning of the phrases. That of course it not always possible, even the scientific investigations by the Doctor of Darts fail sometimes.
The book is in no way boring or arid like dictionaries often are. As to be expected by Bobby George it is written with wit and shows delight in doing so while Patrick Chaplin contributes his background knowledge and sees to that we can enjoy beside Bobby George's fabulating real "facts". Many of the phrases are after all only to be understood from the historical or local background should they not, as the book title, originate from Bobby George himself.
The range reaches from really old terms like "Bag O'Nuts" which Patrick Chaplin could trace back till 1910 to modern phrases like the by TV commentators often used "Lipstick" . But the book is not only about darts language, terms like "Exhibition", "Dartitis" or "Belophilite" are covered as well.
Out of the cooperation between Bobby George and Dr. Patrick Chaplin an entertaining, readable and informative book arose which deals with a till now disregarded aspect of the sport of darts and which ensures a gap in darts literature is now closed.