Jarts: The Kid's Game That Really Sticks Out in Your Mind
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What Were They Thinking?
What would you call an outdoor game where one player heaves a weighted, foot-long, metal-tipped dart hihg into the air, hoping to land it in the middle of a plastic hoop placed at the feet of his opponent some 20 feet away? You’d call it “lawn darts,” “Jarts,” “garden darts”—or maybe just “the most idiotically dangerous kid's game ever invented.”
Learn all about this stupendously bad idea in this episode.
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