how can you be bored watching the power while listening to Sid Waddell's commentary..
fantastic
steve
Sorry - I have just been watching for a couple of hours - it's like watching paint dry, despite them all wanting to get their sharpened ends in the bulls eye
GOOD OLD SID WADDELL !!
> "Bristow reasons . . . Bristow quickens ... Aaahhhhh, Bristow."
>
> "Jocky Wilson . . . What an athlete."
>
> "That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!"
>
> "He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed"
>
> "Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a waterbuffalo with
> pea-shooter"
>
> "The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of
chips...
> you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them"
>
> "Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the
> windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy."
>
> "It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline"
>
> "Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your
> neck out"
>
> "His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch"
>
> "That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus."
>
> "It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi
> Arabia."
>
> "His physiognomy is that of a weeping Madonna."
>
> "He's as cool as a prized marrow!"
>
> "Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint."
>
> "He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave."
>
> "The pendulum swinging back and forth like a metronome"
>
> "His face is sagging with tension."
>
> "The fans now, with their eyes pierced on the dart board."
>
> "He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends."
>
> "That's like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank"
>
> "As they say at the DHSS, we're getting the full benefit here."
>
> "There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the
Christians
> to the Lions."
>
> "The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out
there!"
>
> "This lad has more checkouts than Tescos."
>
> "John Lowe is striding out like Alexander the Great conquering the
> Persians"
>
> "I get the same effect when I see Steve Davis, I just see two
> letters...
C
> & S... Cue Sorceror"
>
> "By the time of the final on Sunday he should be fit to burst!"
>
> "There's only one word for that - magic darts!"
>
> "Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy!"
>
> "I don't know what he's had for breakfast but Taylor knocked the
> Snap, Crackle and Pop outta Bristow"
>
> "Even Hypotenuse would have trouble working out these angles"
>
> "Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a
> true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax."
>
> "If you're round your auntie's tonight, tell her to stop making the
> cookie's and come thru to the living room and watch these two amazing
> athletes beat the proverbial house out of each other"
>
> "When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because
> there
were
> no more worlds to conquer... Bristow's only 27."
>
> "Eat your heart out Harold Pinter, we've got drama with a capital D
> in Essex."
>
> "If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have
gone
> home."
>
> "He's playing out of his pie crust."
>
> "They won't just have to play outta their skin to beat Phil Taylor.
They'll
> have to play outta their essence!"
>
> "Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in
> overall body strength."
>
> "There's no one quicker than these two tungsten t_ossers..."
>
> "Look at him as he takes his stance, like he has been sculptured,
> whereas Bobby George, with his bad back, looks like the Hunchback of
> Notre Dame."
>
> "He's playing like Robin Hood in the Nottingham Super League"
>
> "Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet... and he's in a darts
> orbit!"
>
> "The atmosphere is a cross between the Munich Beer Festival and the
> Coliseum when the Christians were on the menu."
>
> "Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like
> choo-choo train!"
>
> "He's like D'Artagnan at the scissor factory."
>
> "Steve Beaton, he's not Adonis, he's THE donis"
>
> "One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time"
>
> "If you had to throw a knife at your wife in the circus, you'd want
> to throw it like that"
One hundred and eighty! :bounce:
Sorry guys - I couldn't resist. This is my one hundred and eightieth post - it just had to be done!
Sappho xxx