My brother just told me that in darts, the ocki is so called because you spit from the board to find where you throw from.

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Back in the day, thats how they measured the distance apparently. This can't be true, can it?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 12 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

our little friends down the road at Great Clarendon Street seem unsure. They say oche is possibly connected with Old French ochen, meaning to cut a deep notch in, but also say its first recorded use is the 20th century - this doesn't seem to add up.

that said, methinks yr bro is having a giraffe.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 12 January 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/patrick.chaplin/Darts_History/why_oche.htm

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 January 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd go with the word being Flemish in origin, personally.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 January 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

So my bro was right? This seems even more improbable than the spitting!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 12 January 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds like the word is Phlegmish in origin.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 12 January 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

Does anyone on ILX play darts? I've just got myself a Winmau darts board as a caprice, it was on offer and came with dart flights with skulls on them, and others with chinese dragons on them.

― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 18 June 2016 01:15 (nine years ago)

I'm shit at it so far, obvs, but really seeing the appeal of it.

― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 18 June 2016 01:16 (nine years ago)

i spent a lot of my teenage years playing darts in my bedroom singing along too loudly to Prog rock. must've sucked to be my parents.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 June 2016 09:49 (nine years ago)

Now you play play progs & sing along to Darts, right?

― oh, amazonaws (wins), Saturday, 18 June 2016 10:40 (nine years ago)

I've also become quite a follower of Ted Hankey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm5rwaxCzOA

http://www1.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Lakeside+World+Darts+Championship+Ak3LVQxEUJMl.jpg

http://dartworld.pl/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/68352_10151289479484002_957594447_n.jpg

― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 18 June 2016 19:35 (nine years ago)

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