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― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Oval?

(I don't know how to play this game - or if indeed there are any rules at all.)

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Ealing Common

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

(there are lots of rules - but don't worry, people will explain them as they go along)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Leicester Square???

(When do I get to go "Mornington Crescent!" and have lots of comfortable middle-class people laugh with me?)

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Snaresbrook

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I thought we were playing post-war rules. So no Snarebrook or anything in the LCC.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Stanmore!

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Pretty brave to invoke Middlesex so early there Sam.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, good move - brave but it will probably pay off later.

Wapping

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

I AM PAUL MCCARTNEY!

oh, wait.

umm.

Paddington.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Aldersgate?

(From now on the question mark should be implied with everything I post - I'm just trying to remember tube station names and seeing if anyone tells me how this thing actually works.)

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Pete, I assume you mean OUTSIDE the LCC? And anyway, that's the inter-war rules. Immediate post-war rules exclude Camberwell and anything on the Northern Heights. Essex beyond Loughton is left ambiguous.

Anyway, taking Aldersgate as a valid play (we're not in time for Barbican): Monument(for Bank).

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Stockwell?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

(???????????????????????????????????????)

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Going South after a Walbrook Opening. Like it.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Trafalgar Square

(again, if Aldersgate is valid play, that must be too)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Trafalgar Square's good, esp. on a Tuesday.

Hyde Park

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Mansion House, suckas!

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Bah! That's messed up my plans completely.

Stamford Brook

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but shunting to Trafalgar Square at this stage is questionable tactics. Still, Clapham North.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Camden Town

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Christ.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Great Portland Street seems the only option now

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Nah, there were actually plenty of choices there - the Central Line would have been tempting for me, in fact.

Westbourne Park.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Assuming this isn't an Amersham reversal.

Mudchute

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Was that a move or was that a suggestion that Great Portland Street is the only possible move. Because I can see an audicious, yet 1980's championship winning move that is just availible (off-peak mind).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Hang on, I thought we were playing immediate post-war rules!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I assumed Great Portland Street *was* a move - as you can presumably tell from my response.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Trousers.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Hang on, are we in spoon?

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

23rd Van Alst. So there.

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

No, we're not in spoon until someone invokes a Brixton Muddle.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, much x-posting there which is one of the reasons why internet games are regulated by the International Body. I think to avoid confusion, inder the 2004 code on internet multiplayer games of Mornington Crescent (including Mornington DOOM) the last move that can be accepted was Camden Town: which means clearly we are not in spoon (yet).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

This thread is a handy summary list of PEOPLE TO AVOID FOREVER at least.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

In that case...

Borough

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Euston, and your mother.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Tricky to get off the Northern Line here, without ceding advantages. Unless...

Green Park?

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you in knip? That rules out moving West of the Northern Line...

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Theydon Bois

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, that's true. So no green park.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I remember reading a comic where people played this. I didn't get the joke then, but I got it now... Is it actually funny to pull this on people? We have nothing similar in Finland.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

lucky, lucky finland.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I think you'll find that doesn't apply before bank holiday weekends aldo.
xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Quite.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

what the hell is this game?!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

I think it does if the DLR has been opened.

x-post to Onimo

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

No, that's very true under the revised 1992 rules. Green Park is in.

In which case, Embankment.

xpost

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

If I answer the Lex, will you be mad at me?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

John Wayne & Castle

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately, that forces me to Dollis Hill.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Neverwhere

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

(I don't understand this game. :-(((((()

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Tehydon Bhoys

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure Lex is QUITE intelligent enought to work out the rules for himself. We're annotating it as we go along, FFS!

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand this game either Nathalie.

― PROUD TO BE ANNA MERKIN (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Nathalie, it's a joke played on bystanders. You aren't supposed to get it, that's the whole point.

(Sorry.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Elephant & Castle - blocked the stealth, get in!

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

It's actually a bit broken round the back. Kennington.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

No-one should ever be forced to Dollis Hill.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

ooh, challenging, stockwell perhaps?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

The diagonal means... Olympia?

Gosh, that was uncertain.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Pimlicous

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

They don boys

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Unless I'm misreading the 1995 Loop & Shunt Committee Minutes I'm going to need to go back until someone splits a blue diagonal.

Dollis Hill

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Bah, I knew something interesting would develop if I left.

Bayswater.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Phone rings and when I get back my golden setup has been left wide open...

Elm Park

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I think I still don't understand :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Goodge Street

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

The Don Boyce

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Good blocking move there.

New Cross Gate

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

the lex, whatever you do, don't google looking for rules.

― grimly fiendish, forced to listen to too much "comedy" on radio 4 during his for, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Swiss Cottage.

Although that's a bit risky.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

I'd have said that was *very* risky at this point in the game. Because, that leaves me open to do...

Marble Arch!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

But... that bisects on the Victoria line.

Chancery Line is the only next move.

Ah, I see what you're doing now.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

"lane", obviously.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

WOuld it be cheating then (since it is an open, freeform game under the Geneva Convention) for me to go:

Edgware Road...

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

And then

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Well played. I saw it in two, and was assuming FP was waiting to take it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Well played and got.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Not cheating but hardly in the spirit of a Game Of Gentlemen!

Still, well played (grumle mumble)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Nice going. Well played.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, I was gonna say it was nasty going to Edgeware Road there. Mind you, the IMCC allow that kind of thing, though why they haven't stopped it after all these years I'll never know . . .

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

No no no - disallow moves like that and you might as well not play with competitive spirit at all

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Well done there Pete. Damn work getting in the way.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

i don't see how you got edgware rd to mornington crescent at all there, not on post-war rules anyhow.

― Ned Ragget In S&M Gear With His Nob Hanging Out Spanking Me, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

I tried to slip an Elm Park in between but you got me, Pete

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Ned Ragget In S&M Gear With His Nob Hanging Out Spanking Me

I think(/hope!) you've left a participle dangling there (amongst other things).

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I do feel a little bit dirty, but all's fair in love and Morningtom Crescent eh?

Quite happy to sit out the rematch though, and you could always use Parisian rules to stop consecutive posting (also allowing the Eurostar as well though its a bit like those 3D games of chess they play on Star Trek then).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

And the RER is a nightmare

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

(Oh and in answer to Ned Ragget In S&M Gear With His Nob Hanging Out Spanking Me let me just say the 27.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't like consecutive posting, but Parisian Rules are a bore. We might as well play NY rules or something. No need to get ridiculous about it.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I really don't want to play under NY rules. Spelling everything incorrectly is time-consuming and wasteful.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Not to mention winning by saying Mornington Curve!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Better than Matinton Croissant.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Point taken.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

Okay, new game. Play with me if you like.

Kings Cross

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Farringdon

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Sutton

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

~~THAMESLINK~~ sorry - FIRST CAPTIAL CONNECT IS NOT THE TUBE!!!!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Stockwell Park

(is that allowed? I can't remember the Millenium Edition ruling)

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Shoreditch

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, well done!

Victoria

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

friday afternoon non-tube loop lines permitted on odd dates

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Theyden Bois

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

sneaky, kate

gipsy hill

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Oval.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Hendon Central (N.B. Chatham House rules)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

i'm gonna risk aldgate east for the chance of mornington crescent in 5!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh, playing close to the wind there, Ken!

Holborn.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

i think ken made an error in announcing his strategy there, because now i can play CUTTY SARK. ha!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Post equinox? Are you sure you want to do that?

North Greenwich!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

White peg, red peg, red peg -- Cyprus.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh no, oh no, this is getting tight...

ALL SAINTS!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

sTRATFORD lOW lEVEL

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Tricky... but still. Wapping!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

working on a second front here - kew gardens

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Turnham Green

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Vauxhall

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

I hate you all.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Blackhorse Road

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

this is getting quite...intense!

harrow & wealdstone, fuckerz

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

South Hampstead

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

(national rail fares apply north of Queens Park)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Oh... oh... the pressure is building... I can't take it no more...

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!!!!!!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

hmph. didn't see that one coming. well played kate but i'll get you next time.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Well, until we meet again!

Just you try and take my title from me!

::shakes fist::

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I go for a meeting, and when I come back, Kate's gone and won - no fair!

I thought you wre egonna go there from Vauxhall, to be honest. I would have done.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Let's start again. Am I allowed to start with Ladbroke Grove or are wilds out at this point in the game?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

It's Friday rules, seems like anything goes.

Notting Hellgate, oopes, I mean Hill Gate

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Damn, should've seen that coming. Fine, I'm sticking and going for Burnt Oak.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

NOTTINGHAM FORREST

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha! Then I'll plump for Royal Oak!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

well if it's friday rules, Temple.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

You're thinking of the Sabbath, Steve. Can I get a cheeky Northfields in before someone pairs up with Dollis Hill?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Manor House

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Mansion House.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

(I love the sneaky Manor House/Mansion House manouver!)

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm pairing up with Dollis hill, then.

― stet (stet), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Sheffield Wednesday

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, Northfields reverses the order three times so it's my go again - Archway - swivel on THAT suckas!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

accrington stanley?

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Port Vale

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Now children - play nice, or you're going to make BRENT CROSS!!!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Come on Kate, don't be such a Leicester Square.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

aha, Double Norwich! haven't seen this strategy for 15 years at least.

Crewe Alexandra

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

You're taking a real Chancery Lane, JB!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

::looks to the left, looks to the right::

::gulps::

MUDCHUTE

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Well played!!!

BARKING good move!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

can i suggest GRANGE HILL?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

back to the pairing manoeuvres then - i feel that GANTS HILL would now be a good play.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

...and swinging round to Buckhurst Hill

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Mount Pleasant

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

MAIL TRAIN OUT OF ORDER, LYNCH-BELL!!!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

...oops, plus Harrow On The Hill

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

"DOLLIS HILL comes nearer to being a paradise than any other home I ever occupied."

Mark Twain, 1900.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

all this circling around is getting us nowhere near the heart of the game.

KENSINGTON (OLYMPIA), mofos.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

starter for ten

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and back out to St.James Park to see the Queen (after all it is her birthday).

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

queen you say? i trump you with Dalston KINGsland!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what game you're playing, but it's not Mornington Crescent.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

i think you just won.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Go away, it's Friday Rules.

I knock our your KINGSland with Prince Regent! Hah!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

objects > people, so...ROYAL OAK

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Markelby, you're way out of BOUNDS GREEN

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Oi, I already played that:

Ha ha! Then I'll plump for Royal Oak!
-- Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (masonicboo...), April 21st, 2006 2:22 PM. (kate) (later)

Try again!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

kate it's after 4pm, friday rules permit repetition late in the afternoon as long as the overall tactic is legit, i would have thought you knew that...

BOSTON MANOR y'all.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Mutter mutter. Right, CANADA WATER, then.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

we're getting somewhere, i feel. west india quay.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

East India... getting warmer...

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

In that case (you're going to hate me for this) but I'm laying down Dollis Hill one more time.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

how hot do you want to get? so hot you get a BURNT OAK.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Quit it with the Dollis, or I'll send you to the TOWER HILL

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Is it legal to play GOLDERS GREEN on the Sabbath?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

It is on the sabbath ... but we're playing online, which tradition says uses the abridged rules for playing via letter. That means yr move is invalid, which allows me to:

Mornington Crescent!

― stet (stet), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

NEW GAME!!

I'm going to start off using the Copenhagen strategy (developed by former MC World Champion, Damo Copenhagen) and take White City, taking three yellow tokens in the process.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Why you whippersnapper...

Bayswater.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Bayswater! Hah!

I laugh in your face and use a zig-zag move to Wood Green, putting the Piccadilly Line is quasi-reverse for the next two rounds.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Insolence.

::concentrates for a few moments with the look of a chess grand master::

Manor House

::folds arms across chest and smiles smugly::

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

classic opening moves but i feel some lateral thinking is required here: BERMONDSEY

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

That was a sneaky move. Reminds me of the 1977 Jubilee Team Challenge!

I'm going to pull out one of the big guns a bit early now - Holborn, and I believe you are now in knid unless you can perform a reverse circuit next round!

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I'm going to have to cut a diagonal slash mannouver with RICHMOND. Ha ha, beat that, you fules.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, beat that, you fules.
Piccadilly Circus. pwnt.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Pah! I believe Richard Le Cornu lost the 1971 Channel Islands Invitational with a move like that!

Time for an old classic here, Mile End. That's two red tokens, thank you!

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

mornington crescent.

pwn3d.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, Ken...

Short game, but well played. Congratulations.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. That was a decisive victory but one that lacked panache and class. Reminds me of the 1985 All-England MC Open, I'm afraid.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

that move was the scholar's mate of mornington crescent.

new game.

i invoke the graveyard card and play aldwych

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm. I think I'll start off with a modern move with a classic twist, Holland Park. I believe that puts the Central Line in reverse for now!

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

fucking lame

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, which line is that on?

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think I remember John Lennon using the "fucking lame" move during the 1967 European Championships, docking him five blue tokens plus locking him up at St. John's Wood for three rounds.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

and while the referee isn't looking ken c plays a low Bow.

oooh that has got to hurt

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gonna be like mace in yo face with Brent Cross, earning yours truly the famous 1985-vintage Capitalcard.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Turnpike Lane.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

About face to South Wimbledon. That's the Northern Line all shunted up nicely!

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

Bugger, you're right there. The only sensible move I can see is East Ham.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh! Well played indeed.

But I'll nip back to Goodge Street, which always goes nicely in this sort of situation!

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

I can see a flaw in your plan, though. Swiss Cottage.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Just say no: Grange Hill.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

May I tramell here and suggest Oval?

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oval is allowed there if you read the 1964 Amendments To The Tournament Rules - however, it does allow right-hand-running when not on bank holidays. So I'm going to say White City.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, the competition is heating up, but I'm going to have to plump for Colinwood as a good safe play.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'll take Richmond, putting all of the District Line south of the river in knip for three rounds. Ha ha ha!

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

DAMN! I mean, Colindale. The pressure is getting to me.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

(Am I going to have to miss a turn now under Queens' Rules, or are we still playing to the 1964 Amendments?)

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say you can keep playing, but I'm a gentleman like that.

Kingsbury

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Time to turn on the screws with a Zone 4 Branch Blockade, it's Mill Hill East and the Northern Line is shunted AND reversed until two green tokens are used on the DLR.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Funny you should say that, as my next move was CANARY WHARF!!! DLR/Jubilee switchover, ahoy!

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Aah, but that's a Long Walk Switchover, so you're due a Tedium Penalty there. Canning Town.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Could have been worse, it could have been... BANK.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, have you ever tried changing lines at Canary Wharf? It's far further than Bank.

Anyway. I'm going to invoke an Under Construction Additional and go for Woolwich Arsenal.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have changed there. And it's not as far as from Bank to MONUMENT.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. I'm stuck now...

Unless...

Aha! Chancery Lane!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going with Tower Hill, in order to flood the switchover at Tower Gateway putting the DLR in double knid!

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Earl's Court

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

BARON'S COURT.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

it's kind of not even changing lines at canary wharf cos you have to actually get out of the station and back right?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

try changing lines at shephard's bush lol

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Shepherds Bush is two different stations, you have to specify which are you playing.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

and baron's court isn't a real station :(

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

it's kind of not even changing lines at canary wharf cos you have to actually get out of the station and back right?

Yes. And Canary Wharf DLR station isn't even the closest DLR station to Canary Wharf Underground station.

baron's court isn't a real station

Yes it is.

Back on with the game. Clapham Common.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Clapham South!

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. Pimlico.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

baron's court doesn't exist :(((

barons court does though.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Mark Lane

Try to counter that ghost station move, lads!

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

King William St

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, lil' noob.

Great Portland Street for great justice and now all your base are belong to me. (Take off every knip.)

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think my plans were deeper than you suspected, you know.

Angel.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Mine go deeper... Hampstead.

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'm aiming at you from a great height Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Rayners Lane.

― We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to use the same move Morrissey used at this point of time during the 1988 MC World Cup and rush to Sloan Square.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

...but not before you've learnt how to spell it correctly.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

According to the case of Thomson vs. Chadwick, one vowel may be taken off a station per three rounds without punishment, loss of tokens or turnpiking.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

That was overruled in the Lords, as well you know.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Well, since we're speaking of Lords... St. John's Wood!

― We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost:Dammit, you've got me there. I plain forgot the great Overturning of the Laws Rewrite.

Well, for my maiden voyage into the great sport of ILX MC, I'm going to have to go with the tried and trusted; don't want to be making mistakes at this point!

Played without reverse-side, but with a small element of topspin, I plump hesitantly for Shadwell.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm quite a n00b, so I'll have to be content with playing defensively, or else you'll be MC-ing all over me... back to Monument.

(BTW I've heard rumours the 3rd Subcommittee are working on something called the Oyster Card reamendments -- anyone know whether any more info on this has been maida valeable?)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oyster Card Amendments will never be accepted in South London!

Elephant and Castle

― We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

BEFORE you go gallivanting around Zones 1-4 with your blessed Oyster Card, remember that there are speed restrictions operating on all lines until the 18th of December, and anybody caught above the legal limit will be sent to North Weald station, whence to escape one must discover a means of time-travel back to the 1990's when it was still an operating LU station.

After all that, I have little choice but to go for the triple-twenty: Ravenscourt Park.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Oyster thing is going to cause a schism similar to the 1888 Knox riot which led to the second constitutional congress. And I don't think we want to go back to that. Going forward: South Ruslip

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

hey noobs, is it too late to join in?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Fuck this.

― Venga, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

RIP Humph.

When I read the report earlier in the week that Radio 4 had canceled the recording of the next series, I kind of thought he probably wouldn't be long.

― James Mitchell, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

The Guardian's obit is written by George Melly... who himself died last year: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/25/radio.bbc

― James Mitchell, Friday, 25 April 2008 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

We didn't finish that game from over three years ago, did we?

South Wimbledon, then. (That's how the playaz roll on a trip like this.)

― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 3 January 2010 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Does the 1973 Nunhead & Licht variation allow for Tunnel transfers? If so, Park Royal.

― Wm Binuche, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 08:38 (two years ago)

Length of time between moves constrains your options here considerably... only legitimate move I can see is Debden

― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 09:31 (two years ago)

Debden would force a hand of Monument unless someone is able to play Canons Park somehow?

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:36 (two years ago)

Canons Park

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:44 (two years ago)

Okay this is getting interesting. I'm going to tentatively go for Leyton

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:52 (two years ago)

No, no Leytonstone. I meant Leytonstone. Can I retract?

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:52 (two years ago)

Tell you what, no, I'm just going to go with plan A - Debden

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:53 (two years ago)

It looks like nobody said anything about not splitting the Argyle St Parabola so - Highgate

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 16:09 (two years ago)

Fascinating. When Malin-Bakerman demobbed after his long and gallant service, he took on a similar gambit. (There’s an engaging and plagiaristic account of it in volume 2 of Mccafferty). The lesson there, of course, was to close off the Eastern routes by all means necessary. Bromley-by-Bow

― Wm Binuche, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 08:49 (two years ago)

I just happen to have my 1987 edition of McCafferty by my bedside (don't judge me, I'm an insomniac) and I can't find any reference to it. Do you think it was edited out?

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 09:12 (two years ago)

Was it McCafferty or Mccafferty? The difference is small but significant.

In any event, it's all covered in Burton, too. Surely you've read Burton. It comes after the exegesis on the Portishead Convention which, as I'm sure you know, formed the foundation of the modern game.

― Wm Binuche, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:36 (two years ago)

By the way, an '87 McCafferty with original dust wrappers in fine condition will fetch a pretty penny. There was one at Maggs a few years ago, but it was too dear for me.

Also, as poke holder, you know that Rule 7 demands your reply. We had that excellent ASP from MaresNest; I think that means the nudge is to you. Did I get that right?

― Wm Binuche, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:59 (two years ago)

Mine was gifted to me back in 2009 when I was first getting into the game. My friend Alan Farmer, who I understand is a successful regional tournament player, gifted it to me. I wonder what he's up to now? I won't be getting rid of it

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 29 September 2023 11:24 (two years ago)

Unfortunately McCafferty himself has turned to the dark side in his dotage, 90% of his twitter is just ravings about the need to exclude trans women from women only tournaments

― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 September 2023 11:51 (two years ago)

Well that's so disappoiting. Maybe time to sell up! Although it's still an invaluable tome, especially the chapter covering the Hertford Loop. Can I "separate the art from the artist"? Don't know, it all makes me feel a bit icky just having it displayed on my bookcase

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 29 September 2023 12:08 (two years ago)

Interesting. I had heard McCafferty spends most of his time reading Ezra Pound, eating butter sandwiches in a park near the Cheyne Walk, and occasionally mumbling things about Old Oak Common.

― Wm Binuche, Monday, 2 October 2023 06:28 (two years ago)

four weeks pass...

Kenton.

― Wm Binuche, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 20:24 (two years ago)

one month passes...

Actually, I'm regretting that as it’s coming woefully close to a Mudlark transgression.

― Wm Binuche, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 00:10 (two years ago)

Hey, you guys don't mind if a Yank drops in do you? I was in London for a work trip (jetlag was bruuuutal coming from SF but a weekend in Paris made up for it lol) when somebody introduced me to the game. So quaint! Anyway Piccadilly Circus.

― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:42 (two years ago)

Aw, that's such a cute tourist move.

Aldgate East.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 09:07 (two years ago)

Grange Hill

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 09:09 (two years ago)

Borough

― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 12:26 (two years ago)

No diagonals is it? So, Headstone Lane

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 12:47 (two years ago)

five months pass...

What’s the ruling about new stations? I can’t remember what the new advice was in those heady days of the Brexit dividend. Are new stations allowed only upon opening or once they are on the official TFL map? I’m asking because: Brent Cross West might be a game changer.

― Wm Binuche, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 23:39 (two years ago)

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