{"id":4512,"date":"2011-01-23T18:28:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2011-01-23T18:31:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T18:31:06","slug":"nice-arrers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4512","title":{"rendered":"Nice arrers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been doing further thinking on my quest to find new ‘instant hit’ TV shows.<\/p>\n

Following on from last week’s ‘Antique Roadshow Rewind<\/a>‘, this week I’d like to look at the semi-sporting world of pub games.<\/p>\n

In particular, darts.<\/p>\n

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The sport<\/span> game of Darts is, to the outsider, a bit tame<\/span> totally fucking tedious.<\/p>\n

But how to liven up the spectacle of two men (who may or may not be seriously overweight) throwing Lilliputian javelins at a glorified RAF roundel?<\/p>\n

My first thought was ‘Rottweilers!’ How about two darts players, in a cage, throwing for the highest score against the clock?<\/p>\n

The mad-as-a-box-of-snakes Rottweilers are held at bay by a gate that is on a timer.<\/p>\n

Both darts players would be harnessed up to a safety rig and, as the clock counts down to the last second, the player with the highest score gets whisked up out of the pit…<\/p>\n

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As the door to the Rottweiler’s cage drops, leaving the loser to a messy fate.<\/p>\n

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But then I thought ‘Nah, that wouldn’t work. The RSPCA would complain about something’.<\/p>\n

So I started looking for a threat that would bring escalating levels of excitement.<\/p>\n

A threat that would bring danger, tension and, yes, television ratings – to an otherwise dull spectacle.<\/p>\n

And one that wouldn’t jeopardise any animals.<\/p>\n

It came to me.<\/p>\n

A compression chamber should be used as the setting for ‘Dart Explosion!’<\/p>\n

We put our two dartists in to a large compression\/decompression chamber. They have 90-seconds to achieve the highest score, and as the countdown gets closer and closer to the conclusion, the oxygen is pumped out of the compression chamber!<\/p>\n

A hatch will open in front of the winner and they’ll get an oxygen mask. The loser gets… a vacuum.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

Anyone for a game of extreme darts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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