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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)

Skipping 171 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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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