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Posted by: Louis on Mar. 24 2010,10:57
Dear Colleagues, Collaborators, Friends, Acquaintances, Auld Enemies, Scum Sucking Turd Gobblers, and Arden,
Seeing as it is deeply evil to derail the UD thread, or indeed any thread, from its Intended Purpose* I feel we need a little space of our own. Continuing from the derail on the UD3 thread, where we had a move of East Putney, I invite interested parties to make their moves.
Elevators are wild, diagonals are permitted, Stovold, as ever, reigns supreme.
Louis
* Which is, of course, designed. I searched for "Mornington Crescent" and "MC" and all variables within thread titles and found nothing. Despite the fact that I have a vague memory of an original thread for this stuff. Maybe my search-fu is weak.
Posted by: J-Dog on Mar. 24 2010,11:49
Following the standard Thurgood-Hamilton conversion algorithm, but banning semi-lateral shunts, I shall play my Transfer to the Purple Line, and exit at the Northwestern station.
Posted by: BillB on Mar. 24 2010,12:01
Quote (J-Dog @ Mar. 24 2010,17:49) | Following the standard Thurgood-Hamilton conversion algorithm, but banning semi-lateral shunts, I shall play my Transfer to the Purple Line, and exit at the Northwestern station. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
HA! Morningto... Oh, hang on ...
...
Camden Market?
Close, but no cigar.
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 24 2010,12:26
Middle-aged men entertain themselves by making cryptic reference to arcane and abstruse rules that may or may not exist in a discussion of a subject matter of no apparent relevance to humans of the normal 46-chromosome type.
This absorbs the participants' interests and energies to a remarkable degree. It inexplicably provides amusement to them, derived, it would seem, as much by the exclusion of non-initiates as by any intrinsic wit or worth their exchanges may have.
My God, we've all become LAWYERS!!!!
Posted by: jeffox on Mar. 24 2010,12:55
Ya ya, I'm game! I'll start out with the standard opening. . . . . Entry at the airport. Then, I bid 4. Noting that automatically gains me a 0.538 Fizbin, I'll let that roll over while I take the perfunctory pull on the linchnizzle. Exit at Kings Crossing for an easy double.
Your move(s)!
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 24 2010,13:06
Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 24 2010,17:26) | [SNIP]
My God, we've all become LAWYERS!!!! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
You take that back!
Louis
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 24 2010,13:26
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 24 2010,13:06) | Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 24 2010,17:26) | [SNIP]
My God, we've all become LAWYERS!!!! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
You take that back!
Louis ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
I'll see you in court. I'll sue you for every Euro you have.
Maybe you can do some pro bono work for a few "less fortunate" people on this board.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 24 2010,13:37
Hmm. Think I'll just watch for a while.
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 24 2010,13:57
Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 24 2010,18:26) | Quote (Louis @ Mar. 24 2010,13:06) | Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 24 2010,17:26) | [SNIP]
My God, we've all become LAWYERS!!!! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
You take that back!
Louis ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
I'll see you in court. I'll sue you for every Euro you have.
Maybe you can do some pro bono work for a few "less fortunate" people on this board. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Despite what Arden says I've never done pro-boner work.
Anyway, this is off topic for a thread that is intended to avoid off topicism elsewhere. This is a good thing and possibly recursive. However, since that J-Dog fellow seems keen for play to drift across the Atlantic and BillB is using Fictional Stations (not necessarily a bad thing, but we can discuss the legality of it later) I am forced to bring play back into the Approved Regions by crossing diagonal and stacking my stations with a Plumbery Shift.
Gloucester Road.
Louis
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 24 2010,14:29
Thank goodness for that Louis, I was nearly forced to play < Schlump >.
Posted by: Richardthughes on Mar. 24 2010,15:34
Krapy rub snif : Finsbury Park
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 24 2010,17:51
Quote (Richardthughes @ Mar. 24 2010,13:34) | Krapy rub snif : Finsbury Park ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Dollis Hill.
That's right, I just played < Dollis Hill >.
All your Hammersmith Harmonics are belong to us.
Posted by: jeffox on Mar. 24 2010,19:41
Whoa, it looks like an excellent field of fellow competitors. Good. I'll carry a wickey sticket in an off-tune manner. Plus, I'll claim the Ministry of Funny Walks. Keep in mind, people, enweaselization will get you every time. I think. Finally, I'll stumper. Good luck! :)
Posted by: Timothy McDougald on Mar. 24 2010,19:47
Kew Gardens
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,01:08
Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 24 2010,17:47) | Kew Gardens ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Wow, I wouldn't have pegged you as a Fifth Quadrantist. But it's hard to interpret your move in any other light.
Posted by: Ptaylor on Mar. 25 2010,01:20
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,20:08) | Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 24 2010,17:47) | Kew Gardens ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Wow, I wouldn't have pegged you as a Fifth Quadrantist. But it's hard to interpret your move in any other light. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Nah - I think that's just a modified version of Wilson's gambit.
Posted by: Tony M Nyphot on Mar. 25 2010,01:28
Quote (jeffox @ Mar. 24 2010,18:41) | Plus, I'll claim the Ministry of Funny Walks. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
I'm sorry to inform you, but that's Silly...
I predict the imminent demise of this thread in the year 2025 and I'll wager a bottle of single malt scotch on that.
Waterloo.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,02:12
Quote (Ptaylor @ Mar. 24 2010,23:20) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,20:08) | Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 24 2010,17:47) | Kew Gardens ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Wow, I wouldn't have pegged you as a Fifth Quadrantist. But it's hard to interpret your move in any other light. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Nah - I think that's just a modified version of Wilson's gambit. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Oh, I guess you're right. I've always had trouble following the flux up the Parslow gradient when helices are underdetermined.
My bad.
(Maybe we need an "Official AtBC Mornington Crescent Peanut Gallery Thread". I'd hate to disrupt the play with some of my occasionally paraboloid observations.)
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,02:32
If Waterloo was the last legal move, I'd have to play Elephant & Castle. Has the line velocity been pegged yet? (Sorry, it's late where I am.)
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 25 2010,06:16
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,07:12) | Quote (Ptaylor @ Mar. 24 2010,23:20) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,20:08) | Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 24 2010,17:47) | Kew Gardens ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Wow, I wouldn't have pegged you as a Fifth Quadrantist. But it's hard to interpret your move in any other light. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Nah - I think that's just a modified version of Wilson's gambit. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Oh, I guess you're right. I've always had trouble following the flux up the Parslow gradient when helices are underdetermined.
My bad.
(Maybe we need an "Official AtBC Mornington Crescent Peanut Gallery Thread". I'd hate to disrupt the play with some of my occasionally paraboloid observations.) ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
The whole point of play is the paraboloid observations and disagreements about the rules. Frankly most of these posts are far too short and lacking in detailed appreciation of the subtleties of the game.
As a case in point, your questioning of PTaylor and Afarensis is quite correct. Wilson's gambit? Poppycock and foolishness! Afarensis is clearly trying to take Northern Approach whilst avoiding being in Spoon. He ignored my comments on Stovold earlier in the thread, and has failed to note also that elevators are wild.
Since it is after Labour Day (note spelling)* and before the term of the fiftieth president for you personages of an American persuasion, you are well within your rights to advocate a slight deviation from traditional Stovold. Modified Stovoldian Dynamics is a perfectly acceptable deviation, unless of course one prefers SuperStovold or one of the myriad S-Theories.
Given all of that, and that is is a Thursday in March I can play my Hare token and move laterally into the Doggers. Thus, from your move of Waterloo I shall play:
Upminster!
Which, unless someone knows how to control the Masonic Stations, should give me Mornington Crescent in three.
Louis
*Techincally it is always after Labour Day, unless it is Labour Day, which is still after the previous Labour Day.
Posted by: Timothy McDougald on Mar. 25 2010,07:08
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 25 2010,06:16) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,07:12) | Quote (Ptaylor @ Mar. 24 2010,23:20) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,20:08) | Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 24 2010,17:47) | Kew Gardens ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Wow, I wouldn't have pegged you as a Fifth Quadrantist. But it's hard to interpret your move in any other light. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Nah - I think that's just a modified version of Wilson's gambit. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Oh, I guess you're right. I've always had trouble following the flux up the Parslow gradient when helices are underdetermined.
My bad.
(Maybe we need an "Official AtBC Mornington Crescent Peanut Gallery Thread". I'd hate to disrupt the play with some of my occasionally paraboloid observations.) ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
The whole point of play is the paraboloid observations and disagreements about the rules. Frankly most of these posts are far too short and lacking in detailed appreciation of the subtleties of the game.
As a case in point, your questioning of PTaylor and Afarensis is quite correct. Wilson's gambit? Poppycock and foolishness! Afarensis is clearly trying to take Northern Approach whilst avoiding being in Spoon. He ignored my comments on Stovold earlier in the thread, and has failed to note also that elevators are wild.
Since it is after Labour Day (note spelling)* and before the term of the fiftieth president for you personages of an American persuasion, you are well within your rights to advocate a slight deviation from traditional Stovold. Modified Stovoldian Dynamics is a perfectly acceptable deviation, unless of course one prefers SuperStovold or one of the myriad S-Theories.
Given all of that, and that is is a Thursday in March I can play my Hare token and move laterally into the Doggers. Thus, from your move of Waterloo I shall play:
Upminster!
Which, unless someone knows how to control the Masonic Stations, should give me Mornington Crescent in three.
Louis
*Techincally it is always after Labour Day, unless it is Labour Day, which is still after the previous Labour Day. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
I beg to differ, Kew Gardens was recommended in in Havershawn's 1974 Co-Addenda for the Years 1970-1971 (Excluding June 1971). Elevators are wild? feh. That's crazy talk.
At any rate, Moor Park.
Posted by: carlsonjok on Mar. 25 2010,07:49
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 25 2010,06:16) | Afarensis is clearly trying to take Northern Approach whilst avoiding being in Spoon. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
As an aside to the current Mornington Crescent outbreak, RichardtHughes tells me that Afarensis actually prefers the southern approach and likes to spoon afterward.
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 25 2010,08:21
Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 25 2010,12:08) | [SNIP Me]
I beg to differ, Kew Gardens was recommended in in Havershawn's 1974 Co-Addenda for the Years 1970-1971 (Excluding June 1971). Elevators are wild? feh. That's crazy talk.
At any rate, Moor Park. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Havershawn? Oh dear dear dear deary me. Havershawn was shown to be limited in the world championships of 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, just prior to the release of the Stazi archives. Of course the archives' release got it reinstated until 1993 when the Bloomsbury Contingent was discovered independently by Brooke-Taylor and Fotheringay as being both communist and homosexual.
Anyway, since you have chosen Moor Park whilst elevators are still wild, you have fallen into my trap, thus:
Victoria!
This of course should lead to Mornington Crescent in 12. Some would say that was not an improvment. They would be wrong.
Louis
Posted by: huwp on Mar. 25 2010,08:37
I know I'm late to this and I know that Louis said that you're using Stovold, but Stovold is often supplemented by Armitage these days - which of course means no Nid.
So, is this game Stovold (pure) or as amended by Armitage?
Oh well, I suppose it doesn't matter, I just HATE ending up in Nid.
If I'm not too late to play:
Covent Garden.
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 25 2010,09:23
Quote (huwp @ Mar. 25 2010,13:37) | I know I'm late to this and I know that Louis said that you're using Stovold, but Stovold is often supplemented by Armitage these days - which of course means no Nid.
So, is this game Stovold (pure) or as amended by Armitage?
Oh well, I suppose it doesn't matter, I just HATE ending up in Nid.
If I'm not too late to play:
Covent Garden. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Armitage? Part of the Turnwise Schism I see. If you hate Knid so much why have you deliberately played to enter it?
I think you'll find that you need to spend a turn in Knid, you can ask for a Chairman's Ruling, but since Humph is dead, it might take a while or some arcane practises. Appealing to Guest Chairpersons is acceptable.
Rulings have to be signed, in triplicate, returned before they were sent, and laminated in badger sputum before they are considered for acceptance.
Remaining players can move in the interim.
Louis
Posted by: huwp on Mar. 25 2010,09:44
Oh rats. I hate spending time in Knid almost as much as I hate spending time in Nid.*
* There, see what I did there?
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 25 2010,09:49
Quote (huwp @ Mar. 25 2010,14:44) | Oh rats. I hate spending time in Knid almost as much as I hate spending time in Nid.*
* There, see what I did there? ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
[Stephen Fry as Jeeves Voice]
Mmmm, very good, Sir.
[/Stephen Fry as Jeeves Voice]
However, just because you can't spell it, doesn't mean you aren't in it. I learned that one the hard way.
Louis
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 25 2010,10:02
I hate it when it a game descends into frantic diagonals like this. Remember the '74 Quarter Finals when Lobanov-Rostovskii played through Embankment six times, insisting that it only had escalators for the District line? Gladsby had to threaten a puce card before he'd shut up.
Anyway, I'm fed up with this. Balham. And I'm passing the niblet stick.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 25 2010,10:32
(This was all pre-empted by Amadan's terse and pithy observations and masterful move. $#!+.)
I thought the Labour Day rule was amended by Cotter's Janus Perspective (adapted from his novel of the same name): within six months of last Labour Day, it's after Labour Day; within six months of next Labour Day, it's before Labour Day.
But you're right, of course, Louis, S-Manifold manipulation is perfectly valid between Vernal Equinox and Easter Sunday, barring annular lunar eclipses (a full eclipse will of course reset the entire matrix).*
So, still Victoria, then, is it?
I've still got the ticket stub from the ViaRail ride down to our lovely namesake town. That gets me a transfer at Canning Station, by the Greater Commonwealth Reciprocity Treaty (1947) [Section 3, paragraph 6, subheadings i and ii].
Canada Water.
A bit obvious, perhaps, but I'm a fan of the classics. It worked for McDonald in '83.
*btw we've passed First Quarter and Pleine Lune is the 30th, so if you expect to win in 12, Louis, I suggest a few late-night runs or a chat with the Dispatcher.
p.s. if huwp's Covent Garden play is valid then I opt for DeVito's Short Walk to Blackfriars entrance. I know the station's closed until next year but it's the closest I can get to Mansion House, which I believe has already been played, has it not? (Last I heard Cannon Street is closed after 2100 and on Sundays)
ARGH! Just as I was working it out:
Balham?!? Damn. After all that. I snost, I lost. Sigh.
ETA: Oh hell I was looking at Royal Victoria. No wonder. Sorry to slow the game down, ladies, I've still only got my green belt.
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 25 2010,10:38
Amadan and fnxtr,
Now THAT is how the game should be played! Well done Amadan on anticipating my intended shift to the vernacular. Sadly, I have to take the niblet stick and move into Jar. It's my own silly fault after all.
I shall remain in Jar until someone else has moved into Spoon.
Although fnxtr, you did come close with Canada Water, I have to say the Masonic Stations have been successfully Shriven by your move, and thus the game moves into the Open Orifice Phase. Good luck players!
Louis
ETA: Don't even talk to me about Rosicrucians! LOL
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 25 2010,10:45
Belham. Grrr! And the niblet stick in Jar with Louis.
Good luck, Ames, I believe you're up. How are you at carom shots? Or is it Tony... I've lost track now. Who's got the button?
Posted by: jeffox on Mar. 25 2010,10:46
That's all fine and dandy, but I wonder if you all have REALLY thought this out completely. And, for that, you've given my quite the advantage.
Cabbage patch by bookend? Risky, but could pay off well.
Huntzinger with antipasta? I relish the thought, but it seems a bit, umm, whitebread to me.
Nostalgia for the Davetard 5? That could work.
I don't know, my options at this point are wide open. I can't decide. . . . . . .
Oh, wait - I have it!!! Shatner on the old gray mare!! (I know, I know, Carlson will hate me for that one but I do wish to be competitive.)
After that, it's pretty easy - end at Monument Valley Tower, shirtless for HMTQ.
I. Luvitseau!!!
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 25 2010,10:57
Monument? From Balham?!?!?.
Okay I'm officially lost. I thought the previous Elephant and Castle play broke the Northern to District/Circle transfer, and jeffox could only reach Monument via Tottenham?
Oh, right, Open Orifice.
Well played, sir!
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 25 2010,11:21
Quote (fnxtr @ Mar. 25 2010,10:57) | Monument? From Balham?!?!?.
Okay I'm officially lost. I thought the previous Elephant and Castle play broke the Northern to District/Circle transfer, and jeffox could only reach Monument via Tottenham?
Oh, right, Open Orifice.
Well played, sir! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
< ahem >
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 25 2010,12:07
Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 25 2010,09:21) | Quote (fnxtr @ Mar. 25 2010,10:57) | Monument? From Balham?!?!?.
Okay I'm officially lost. I thought the previous Elephant and Castle play broke the Northern to District/Circle transfer, and jeffox could only reach Monument via Tottenham?
Oh, right, Open Orifice.
Well played, sir! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
< ahem > ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
So???
I don't see your point. Even though it puts him auf der Uhr, he can just take the 137 from Balham to Pim--... oh, shhh... Hospital Proximity! The Lord Cumberland Incident really buggered things up, didn't it. Too bad, Chelsea Bridge is usually a good way to filter the upper harmonics.
This should be interesting.
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 25 2010,12:24
Wow, it's like I'm phasing perpendicularly through a parallel universe that is UD.
Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life here.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,12:25
Quote (fnxtr @ Mar. 25 2010,10:07) | Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 25 2010,09:21) | Quote (fnxtr @ Mar. 25 2010,10:57) | Monument? From Balham?!?!?.
Okay I'm officially lost. I thought the previous Elephant and Castle play broke the Northern to District/Circle transfer, and jeffox could only reach Monument via Tottenham?
Oh, right, Open Orifice.
Well played, sir! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
< ahem > ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
So???
I don't see your point. Even though it puts him auf der Uhr, he can just take the 137 from Balham to Pim--... oh, shhh... Hospital Proximity! The Lord Cumberland Incident really buggered things up, didn't it. Too bad, Chelsea Bridge is usually a good way to filter the upper harmonics.
This should be interesting. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Well, since the diagonal parks have been opened, and reversals have advanced by more than a radian (according to the 1948 London Reconstruction addendum, which I trust we are operating under), this opens up the possibility of negative line velocity. Which means that the earlier play has to be transfigured:
kraP rooM.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 25 2010,12:30
Don't forget to epiw, Tom.
Posted by: huwp on Mar. 25 2010,12:33
Oh well, if Louis' opened up the Masonic pathway then it seems a shame not to use it.
I know it may be seen as radical in the everso stuffy corridors of bah-humbuggery inhabited by Louis, Tom and fnxtr where only Stovold will do (which is roughly equivalent to the King James Version only movement) but the advent of the DLR has added an extra dimension to this game.
So thanks to the Masonic reference of the double pillars of the old Naval College (now University) of Greenwich, I get to leave Knid and outflank the lot of you.
Cutty Sark.
HA!
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,12:38
Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 25 2010,10:24) | Wow, it's like I'm phasing perpendicularly through a parallel universe that is UD.
Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life here. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Totally inapropos metaphor. It's more like you're shunting diagonally across the Northern Line, with escalators wild.
As to "intelligent life", sir, I'll have you know that more than one commentator has referred to Mornington Crescent as "Chess for the mind".
Posted by: huwp on Mar. 25 2010,12:41
Oh wait, is huffing allowed?
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,12:49
Quote (huwp @ Mar. 25 2010,10:33) | Oh well, if Louis' opened up the Masonic pathway then it seems a shame not to use it.
I know it may be seen as radical in the everso stuffy corridors of bah-humbuggery inhabited by Louis, Tom and fnxtr where only Stovold will do (which is roughly equivalent to the King James Version only movement) but the advent of the DLR has added an extra dimension to this game.
So thanks to the Masonic reference of the double pillars of the old Naval College (now University) of Greenwich, I get to leave Knid and outflank the lot of you.
Cutty Sark.
HA! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Woo-hoo!
I admire your innovative thinking, but you seem to have forgotten about the five blue tokens pegged at the Euston entrance. Since the public convenience there has been out of order for at least a week (didn't know that, did you?), I get to contra-lateral via Oxford Circus (moving widdershins, of course), which brings me to:
Mornington Crescent!
Nice game, all.
Posted by: carlsonjok on Mar. 25 2010,12:54
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,12:49) | Mornington Crescent!
Nice game, all. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Actually, you didn't win.
< This guy did. >
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,12:56
Quote (carlsonjok @ Mar. 25 2010,10:54) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,12:49) | Mornington Crescent!
Nice game, all. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Actually, you didn't win.
< This guy did. > ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
What are you talking about? That guy's not even wearing a helmet!
Posted by: ppb on Mar. 25 2010,12:59
Doesn't everyone get a medal, just like Special Olympics?
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 25 2010,13:24
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,10:49) | Quote (huwp @ Mar. 25 2010,10:33) | Oh well, if Louis' opened up the Masonic pathway then it seems a shame not to use it.
I know it may be seen as radical in the everso stuffy corridors of bah-humbuggery inhabited by Louis, Tom and fnxtr where only Stovold will do (which is roughly equivalent to the King James Version only movement) but the advent of the DLR has added an extra dimension to this game.
So thanks to the Masonic reference of the double pillars of the old Naval College (now University) of Greenwich, I get to leave Knid and outflank the lot of you.
Cutty Sark.
HA! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Woo-hoo!
I admire your innovative thinking, but you seem to have forgotten about the five blue tokens pegged at the Euston entrance. Since the public convenience there has been out of order for at least a week (didn't know that, did you?), I get to contra-lateral via Oxford Circus (moving widdershins, of course), which brings me to:
Mornington Crescent!
Nice game, all. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
I assume you have shown the moderator your Supercharge Smartcard with at least three yellow stars collected? Otherwise the move from Cutty Sark only takes you as far as Holborn.
Still, if that's game, well done everyone. Fancy another?
Kensal Rise.
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 25 2010,13:47
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,12:38) | Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 25 2010,10:24) | Wow, it's like I'm phasing perpendicularly through a parallel universe that is UD.
Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life here. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Totally inapropos metaphor. It's more like you're shunting diagonally across the Northern Line, with escalators wild.
As to "intelligent life", sir, I'll have you know that more than one commentator has referred to Mornington Crescent as "Chess for the mind". ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
When you fling metaphors, fling them orthogonally using the ley line nexus for the volley hoop.
Transmorgification of the relative density of the tard inhibits lateral receptors from horizontal metamorphic properties.
In the end, just remember the coo coo ca choo.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,13:53
Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 25 2010,11:47) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,12:38) | Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 25 2010,10:24) | Wow, it's like I'm phasing perpendicularly through a parallel universe that is UD.
Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life here. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Totally inapropos metaphor. It's more like you're shunting diagonally across the Northern Line, with escalators wild.
As to "intelligent life", sir, I'll have you know that more than one commentator has referred to Mornington Crescent as "Chess for the mind". ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
When you fling metaphors, fling them orthogonally using the ley line nexus for the volley hoop.
Transmorgification of the relative density of the tard inhibits lateral receptors from horizontal metamorphic properties.
In the end, just remember the coo coo ca choo. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
That was exactly my point, but you've managed to express it more eloquently. I'm glad you understand.
[Edited to remove incendiary references to the 2001-2002 (excepting June 2001) Holbrooke Convention.]
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 25 2010,16:44
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,17:49) | Quote (huwp @ Mar. 25 2010,10:33) | Oh well, if Louis' opened up the Masonic pathway then it seems a shame not to use it.
I know it may be seen as radical in the everso stuffy corridors of bah-humbuggery inhabited by Louis, Tom and fnxtr where only Stovold will do (which is roughly equivalent to the King James Version only movement) but the advent of the DLR has added an extra dimension to this game.
So thanks to the Masonic reference of the double pillars of the old Naval College (now University) of Greenwich, I get to leave Knid and outflank the lot of you.
Cutty Sark.
HA! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Woo-hoo!
I admire your innovative thinking, but you seem to have forgotten about the five blue tokens pegged at the Euston entrance. Since the public convenience there has been out of order for at least a week (didn't know that, did you?), I get to contra-lateral via Oxford Circus (moving widdershins, of course), which brings me to:
Mornington Crescent!
Nice game, all. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
It's this sort of utter disregard for the conventions of Mornington Crescent what causes unrest.
Firstly, trying to move widdershins from Oxford Circus (having left Cutty Sark, which was an inspired move from HuwP, getting himself out of Knid, putting the rest of us in Spoon and changing the laterals to Islets of Langerhans) is a Forbidden Contract under the Great Treaty of 1612 in which, might I remind you we beat the French (always important).
Secondly, the public convenience at Euston has been augmented by the permission of the McDonalds Corporation franchise located nearby in permitting McShits, and even a McShit with Lies*, at all hours. This admirably covers the shitehouse shortfall.
Thirdly, and perhaps most significantly, you have tried to make two moves. You intend to go to Mornignton Crescent via Oxford Circus. That is a move involving two stations. If we could, will-he nill-he, merrily stroll via two stations any time we pleased then anyone one could win the game at any time. It would be like there were no rules at all. This, sir, is an-fucking-outrage!
Fouthly, and above all finally, elevators are wild. If you people cannot incorporate the simplest aspects of the game then I despair, I really do. Perhaps you might find < this > instructional video of some value.
Since, by sheer dint of luck overcoming judgement (and luckily judgement just loves to be come over), fnxtr has made a legal move to Kensal Rise. We can only thank him for this as otherwise play would have had to be abndoned and a Disquisition would have had to be organised.
Thus I can only move to London Bridge in the hope of restoring some sanity.
FrankH has clearly missed the point and is raving uncontrollably. Shame. It happens to the elderly.
Louis
*Engaging in a McShit is the practise of, after an extensive night on the beers, creeping half cut into an early (~6am) McDonalds and taking what can only be described as an epic shite in their freshly cleaned toilets. A McShit with Lies is where, on entering the premises and being caught by an employee, one has to indicate that one will be returning from the shitehouse to purchase breakfast, even though one has no real intention of doing so.
Posted by: DiEb on Mar. 25 2010,17:24
just listening to the 1978/79 series of ISIHAC - wonderful stuff. Carry on!
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,17:45
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 25 2010,14:44) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,17:49) | Quote (huwp @ Mar. 25 2010,10:33) | Oh well, if Louis' opened up the Masonic pathway then it seems a shame not to use it.
I know it may be seen as radical in the everso stuffy corridors of bah-humbuggery inhabited by Louis, Tom and fnxtr where only Stovold will do (which is roughly equivalent to the King James Version only movement) but the advent of the DLR has added an extra dimension to this game.
So thanks to the Masonic reference of the double pillars of the old Naval College (now University) of Greenwich, I get to leave Knid and outflank the lot of you.
Cutty Sark.
HA! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Woo-hoo!
I admire your innovative thinking, but you seem to have forgotten about the five blue tokens pegged at the Euston entrance. Since the public convenience there has been out of order for at least a week (didn't know that, did you?), I get to contra-lateral via Oxford Circus (moving widdershins, of course), which brings me to:
Mornington Crescent!
Nice game, all. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
It's this sort of utter disregard for the conventions of Mornington Crescent what causes unrest.
Firstly, trying to move widdershins from Oxford Circus (having left Cutty Sark, which was an inspired move from HuwP, getting himself out of Knid, putting the rest of us in Spoon and changing the laterals to Islets of Langerhans) is a Forbidden Contract under the Great Treaty of 1612 in which, might I remind you we beat the French (always important).
Secondly, the public convenience at Euston has been augmented by the permission of the McDonalds Corporation franchise located nearby in permitting McShits, and even a McShit with Lies*, at all hours. This admirably covers the shitehouse shortfall.
Thirdly, and perhaps most significantly, you have tried to make two moves. You intend to go to Mornignton Crescent via Oxford Circus. That is a move involving two stations. If we could, will-he nill-he, merrily stroll via two stations any time we pleased then anyone one could win the game at any time. It would be like there were no rules at all. This, sir, is an-fucking-outrage!
Fouthly, and above all finally, elevators are wild. If you people cannot incorporate the simplest aspects of the game then I despair, I really do. Perhaps you might find < this > instructional video of some value.
Since, by sheer dint of luck overcoming judgement (and luckily judgement just loves to be come over), fnxtr has made a legal move to Kensal Rise. We can only thank him for this as otherwise play would have had to be abndoned and a Disquisition would have had to be organised.
Thus I can only move to London Bridge in the hope of restoring some sanity.
FrankH has clearly missed the point and is raving uncontrollably. Shame. It happens to the elderly.
Louis
*Engaging in a McShit is the practise of, after an extensive night on the beers, creeping half cut into an early (~6am) McDonalds and taking what can only be described as an epic shite in their freshly cleaned toilets. A McShit with Lies is where, on entering the premises and being caught by an employee, one has to indicate that one will be returning from the shitehouse to purchase breakfast, even though one has no real intention of doing so. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
You're throwing 1612 in our faces after opening up the Masonic Routing Schemata?
If you're going to declare your allegiance to CAMREC, then go ahead and do so openly, but don't hide under that old triple tree of 1612. You of all people ought to know where that leads.
Your compatriot the late great Mrs. Trellis would be ashamed for you.
And, just as a reminder, rotation widdershins about a circus does not actually involve the station in question, even if the play is made "via" that station. If I had been forced to traverse spinward, you'd have had a valid objection, but that route was blocked due to YOUR EARLIER OPENING OF THE MASONIC SCHEMATA. I hope you can see that this would be true even if the year 1612 had never occurred.
Finally, the less said about your "McShit with Lies" the better. (We're not playing the Fleet Ditch addendum, remember?)
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 25 2010,18:09
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 25 2010,16:44) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,17:49) | Quote (huwp @ Mar. 25 2010,10:33) | Oh well, if Louis' opened up the Masonic pathway then it seems a shame not to use it.
I know it may be seen as radical in the everso stuffy corridors of bah-humbuggery inhabited by Louis, Tom and fnxtr where only Stovold will do (which is roughly equivalent to the King James Version only movement) but the advent of the DLR has added an extra dimension to this game.
So thanks to the Masonic reference of the double pillars of the old Naval College (now University) of Greenwich, I get to leave Knid and outflank the lot of you.
Cutty Sark.
HA! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Woo-hoo!
I admire your innovative thinking, but you seem to have forgotten about the five blue tokens pegged at the Euston entrance. Since the public convenience there has been out of order for at least a week (didn't know that, did you?), I get to contra-lateral via Oxford Circus (moving widdershins, of course), which brings me to:
Mornington Crescent!
Nice game, all. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
It's this sort of utter disregard for the conventions of Mornington Crescent what causes unrest.
Firstly, trying to move widdershins from Oxford Circus (having left Cutty Sark, which was an inspired move from HuwP, getting himself out of Knid, putting the rest of us in Spoon and changing the laterals to Islets of Langerhans) is a Forbidden Contract under the Great Treaty of 1612 in which, might I remind you we beat the French (always important).
Secondly, the public convenience at Euston has been augmented by the permission of the McDonalds Corporation franchise located nearby in permitting McShits, and even a McShit with Lies*, at all hours. This admirably covers the shitehouse shortfall.
Thirdly, and perhaps most significantly, you have tried to make two moves. You intend to go to Mornignton Crescent via Oxford Circus. That is a move involving two stations. If we could, will-he nill-he, merrily stroll via two stations any time we pleased then anyone one could win the game at any time. It would be like there were no rules at all. This, sir, is an-fucking-outrage!
Fouthly, and above all finally, elevators are wild. If you people cannot incorporate the simplest aspects of the game then I despair, I really do. Perhaps you might find < this > instructional video of some value.
Since, by sheer dint of luck overcoming judgement (and luckily judgement just loves to be come over), fnxtr has made a legal move to Kensal Rise. We can only thank him for this as otherwise play would have had to be abndoned and a Disquisition would have had to be organised.
Thus I can only move to London Bridge in the hope of restoring some sanity.
FrankH has clearly missed the point and is raving uncontrollably. Shame. It happens to the elderly.
Louis
*Engaging in a McShit is the practise of, after an extensive night on the beers, creeping half cut into an early (~6am) McDonalds and taking what can only be described as an epic shite in their freshly cleaned toilets. A McShit with Lies is where, on entering the premises and being caught by an employee, one has to indicate that one will be returning from the shitehouse to purchase breakfast, even though one has no real intention of doing so. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
To be or not to be, that is the end game. Whether the weather cause atmospheric fluctuations in the gyroscope of the panda, the game is still that to which we ignore.
With that farted into the wind, baring a repeal of the redux of the Great Plague of 1944*, the poster to whom I have dedicated this post to has decided that a move from Widdershins from Oxford Circus is forbidden. We all know that to be utter bunk as the Great Treaty was null and void.
To further stress my point a move from Homerton to Old Street where as one can Abe it up and reminisce how onions were the fashions off of the belt** shows the ideal of the blue haired woman. It is this blue haired woman who takes leave of her sense and cents and proceeds to find Euro all over her.
Further, the idea that one can't make a two station move means that there is no cheese left in the entirety of the game. With no cheese, there is no one to cut the cheese and the whole premise falls flat into disuse.
Which requires a new device to complete the journey. That device, a new compact to help things grow and evolve around the newness of the situation where you find you leave your senses. Legally speaking, he previous poster is only half right*** but always totally wrong. To complete this passage, if you will, you would proceed to be a new covenant therefore the correct and only legal move would therefore go to Covenant Garden.
*The Great Plague of 1944 was the start to which many a good Englishman forcefully claims that his dad died fighting Gerry and is most definitely not a by product of a lonely British bird and a horny American GI
**Depending on the local you might find yourself in a full Nelson after leaving the Tube especially if you thought you were riding Bart
***A product of his wit no doubt
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 25 2010,18:18
He didn't say "opening", he said "Shriven". Don't you know what "Shriven" means?
Harrumph.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 25 2010,18:19
Come on, somebody, move.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,18:20
Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 25 2010,16:09) | Quote (Louis @ Mar. 25 2010,16:44) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,17:49) | Quote (huwp @ Mar. 25 2010,10:33) | Oh well, if Louis' opened up the Masonic pathway then it seems a shame not to use it.
I know it may be seen as radical in the everso stuffy corridors of bah-humbuggery inhabited by Louis, Tom and fnxtr where only Stovold will do (which is roughly equivalent to the King James Version only movement) but the advent of the DLR has added an extra dimension to this game.
So thanks to the Masonic reference of the double pillars of the old Naval College (now University) of Greenwich, I get to leave Knid and outflank the lot of you.
Cutty Sark.
HA! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Woo-hoo!
I admire your innovative thinking, but you seem to have forgotten about the five blue tokens pegged at the Euston entrance. Since the public convenience there has been out of order for at least a week (didn't know that, did you?), I get to contra-lateral via Oxford Circus (moving widdershins, of course), which brings me to:
Mornington Crescent!
Nice game, all. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
It's this sort of utter disregard for the conventions of Mornington Crescent what causes unrest.
Firstly, trying to move widdershins from Oxford Circus (having left Cutty Sark, which was an inspired move from HuwP, getting himself out of Knid, putting the rest of us in Spoon and changing the laterals to Islets of Langerhans) is a Forbidden Contract under the Great Treaty of 1612 in which, might I remind you we beat the French (always important).
Secondly, the public convenience at Euston has been augmented by the permission of the McDonalds Corporation franchise located nearby in permitting McShits, and even a McShit with Lies*, at all hours. This admirably covers the shitehouse shortfall.
Thirdly, and perhaps most significantly, you have tried to make two moves. You intend to go to Mornignton Crescent via Oxford Circus. That is a move involving two stations. If we could, will-he nill-he, merrily stroll via two stations any time we pleased then anyone one could win the game at any time. It would be like there were no rules at all. This, sir, is an-fucking-outrage!
Fouthly, and above all finally, elevators are wild. If you people cannot incorporate the simplest aspects of the game then I despair, I really do. Perhaps you might find < this > instructional video of some value.
Since, by sheer dint of luck overcoming judgement (and luckily judgement just loves to be come over), fnxtr has made a legal move to Kensal Rise. We can only thank him for this as otherwise play would have had to be abndoned and a Disquisition would have had to be organised.
Thus I can only move to London Bridge in the hope of restoring some sanity.
FrankH has clearly missed the point and is raving uncontrollably. Shame. It happens to the elderly.
Louis
*Engaging in a McShit is the practise of, after an extensive night on the beers, creeping half cut into an early (~6am) McDonalds and taking what can only be described as an epic shite in their freshly cleaned toilets. A McShit with Lies is where, on entering the premises and being caught by an employee, one has to indicate that one will be returning from the shitehouse to purchase breakfast, even though one has no real intention of doing so. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
To be or not to be, that is the end game. Whether the weather cause atmospheric fluctuations in the gyroscope of the panda, the game is still that to which we ignore.
With that farted into the wind, baring a repeal of the redux of the Great Plague of 1944*, the poster to whom I have dedicated this post to has decided that a move from Widdershins from Oxford Circus is forbidden. We all know that to be utter bunk as the Great Treaty was null and void.
To further stress my point a move from Homerton to Old Street where as one can Abe it up and reminisce how onions were the fashions off of the belt** shows the ideal of the blue haired woman. It is this blue haired woman who takes leave of her sense and cents and proceeds to find Euro all over her.
Further, the idea that one can't make a two station move means that there is no cheese left in the entirety of the game. With no cheese, there is no one to cut the cheese and the whole premise falls flat into disuse.
Which requires a new device to complete the journey. That device, a new compact to help things grow and evolve around the newness of the situation where you find you leave your senses. Legally speaking, he previous poster is only half right*** but always totally wrong. To complete this passage, if you will, you would proceed to be a new covenant therefore the correct and only legal move would therefore go to Covenant Garden.
*The Great Plague of 1944 was the start to which many a good Englishman forcefully claims that his dad died fighting Gerry and is most definitely not a by product of a lonely British bird and a horny American GI
**Depending on the local you might find yourself in a full Nelson after leaving the Tube especially if you thought you were riding Bart
***A product of his wit no doubt ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Now you're just making shit up.
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 25 2010,18:32
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 25 2010,18:20) | Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 25 2010,16:09) | (snippity do da) ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Now you're just making shit up. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Which is precisely the route I was taking with Louis.
Please note that the cycles of his bike and his mind twirled inside going down the tracks of his thoughts to the train only to find a runaway.
Over the trestles he pedals faster as the gerbils ride along only to find bridges? We don't need no stinkin' bridges!
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 25 2010,18:33
Quote (fnxtr @ Mar. 25 2010,18:19) | Come on, somebody, move. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
I did, to Covenant Garden.
Posted by: Timothy McDougald on Mar. 25 2010,18:57
Again with elevators! Look, the last time I was on an elevator it broke down. Spent six hours trapped with a mime...a mime that thought it was very funny to that trapped in an invisible box crap while trapped in an elevator. "Scream for help" I said as I stabbed his invisible heart with an invisible stake...I still have nightmares about it.
At any rate, assuming the game is not over, and bearing in mind that elevators are wild (glares at Louis) I think it is appropriate to use the Mcslapmywhut contingency which, of course, uses fractals to alternately randomize linear consecutivities which plings the ingams and say
Ealing Broadway
On the other hand, if the game is over then I will follow the strategy advocated in Thorvald, Ant, Ritenhaus, and Duh's influential and popular Obscene Annotations and Rude Comments on the "Mornington Crescent for Dummies" series and play
Bishops' Stortford
Posted by: jeffox on Mar. 25 2010,20:11
Afarensis wrote:
---------------------QUOTE------------------- On the other hand, if the game is over then I will follow the strategy advocated in Thorvald, Ant, Ritenhaus, and Duh's influential and popular Obscene Annotations and Rude Comments on the "Mornington Crescent for Dummies" series and play
Bishops' Stortford
---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Not so fast. . . . that might work here in the states; but, last I looked, this was INTERNATIONAL MC - you've forgotten about the N'orbelquism addendum. Makes a difference, eh!
Still, good move on your part - great game so far E1!
I'll take Foghat to Bishey Aukland. This will help my cubed distortion factor and also give myself a few extra tiddlestones. Oh, and I'll drop the wickey sticket at this point.
While we all seem to be approaching endgame, it's still anybody's game at this point.
Oh, yeah, and I exit at Louis' favorite pub in Spitalfields (made quite famous in the 1887 tourney, so I've history on my side here). The church here seems quite burnable, but I may be for whom the bell tolls.
Tally Ho!
Posted by: jswilkins on Mar. 25 2010,21:05
What just happened?
Posted by: OgreMkV on Mar. 25 2010,21:45
So, by my records, the score is Oogy to 8.5926549 and a half.
Ames appeared to be leading, but he was bumped into the vortex zone and forced to sing the "I'm very sorry song" backwards.
Louis, of course, came out to a rousing start, faltered on the 59th blue wicket, and was tagged out on second base by getting hit with a golf ball fired from a 00 gauge shotgun... that's gonna leave a mark.
FrankH had to hop backwards on one foot until someone reminded him he did that last time. Then he bought boardwalk and proceeded to try and place every anatomical part on the red circles.
Oh, and I know who Cutty Sark is... so don't try to trick me.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,22:18
Quote (jswilkins @ Mar. 25 2010,19:05) | What just happened? ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Oh, Louis just tried to re-create the Moon Over Morden Incident. That's all. The Victorian Liners failed then, and he failed now. Nothing to see here.
But on the (reasonable) assumption that I won the last game with my pedestrian but effective widdershins contra-lateral via (not through, Louis) Oxford Circus to MC, I'll continue the game in progress. I'm noting the potential for a Hills-and-Valleys cascade (not a Hills-and-Valley Helix, Louis) deriving from fnxtr's Kensal Rise play (nice one, that). Given the decline in line velocity on the blue segment (and my shortage of yellow tokens) I have no choice but to play:
Tower Hill.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 25 2010,22:25
Quote (jeffox @ Mar. 25 2010,18:11) | Afarensis wrote:
---------------------QUOTE------------------- On the other hand, if the game is over then I will follow the strategy advocated in Thorvald, Ant, Ritenhaus, and Duh's influential and popular Obscene Annotations and Rude Comments on the "Mornington Crescent for Dummies" series and play
Bishops' Stortford
---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Not so fast. . . . that might work here in the states; but, last I looked, this was INTERNATIONAL MC - you've forgotten about the N'orbelquism addendum. Makes a difference, eh! ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Damn right it makes a difference!
I'm always worried that invoking the N'o. Ad. makes me look petty and pedantic. Thanks for taking that awkward task on yourself.
ETA: As a public service I've set as my Avatar a reproduction of the 1936 system. Now there's no excuse for trying to shunt out of Knid from Clapham South to Holloway Road. Louis.
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 26 2010,03:04
Such blither. And before I've had my coffee too. Under these conditions a Gentleman can only move to Canada Water.
Louis
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 26 2010,03:21
I claim ullage over Canada Water and cite Louis fess on a field Or with stoat rampant poursuivant.
Southfields.
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 26 2010,04:14
An heraldic return? We haven't seen play like that since the 1850 All Comers National Championships when Bridgeman overcame his irritable bowel syndrome to take gold in the fifth.
Good play there.
Louis
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 26 2010,06:25
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,03:04) | Such blither. And before I've had my coffee too. Under these conditions a Gentleman can only move to Canada Water.
Louis ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
So you're still going to have coffee, right?
In any case the scaring of the readers as per the Concord of Grapes in 1798 has been achieved earning me a "Get out of jail free" card.
I place my "Get out of jail free" card over the large red dots which allows me to cross the border into never-never land and reclaim my tokens.
Ames will still need to sing the "I'm very sorry song" backwards followed by singing the 1812 Overture with a kazoo.
Louis is stuck in the brier patch with a willy-nilly and a case of Bud Light.
Posted by: huwp on Mar. 26 2010,06:44
Is this still the same game or have we started again?
In between the blithering (and there's an awful lot of that) there's some quite nice play here.
Oh bugger it, I'm going to assume it's the same game.
Temple.
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 26 2010,07:00
Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 26 2010,11:25) | [SNIP]
...a case of Bud Light. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
VILE CALUMNY! LIES!
I would never drink Bud Light.
Louis
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 26 2010,10:09
Well, since no-one's taken up my Hills-and-Valleys Cascade, my token density rises. Although I'd like to go to the Northern Line, the delays there due to construction force me into a rather dull move:
Parson's Green.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,10:38
Hmm. Temple to Parsons Green, eh?
Wily creature.
Widdershins and a Full 90, meaning a Demarcation Box has to be implemented within the next 3 moves or the game is in Gridlock, and the Matrix is once again re-aligned to True North. (By my count we're at bearing about 237 now, yeah?)
Not taking the bait.
Queensway.
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 26 2010,10:50
Excellent feint!
After watching Louis skipping, whistling show tunes to the beat of a sputtering MG, Ames taking dull moves worthy of the Great Sleep of 1256 and fxntr lost at Parson's Green I spill the gambit and renege on my tokens going for broke.
Using the Elevators are Wild, I find some girls too and tip toe through the tulips to Holborn.
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 26 2010,11:12
I object. Ullage has been invoked.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,11:15
Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 26 2010,08:50) | Excellent feint!
After watching Louis skipping, whistling show tunes to the beat of a sputtering MG, Ames taking dull moves worthy of the Great Sleep of 1256 and fxntr lost at Parson's Green I spill the gambit and renege on my tokens going for broke.
Using the Elevators are Wild, I find some girls too and tip toe through the tulips to Holborn. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Nice.
One more turn in the SW and Demarc is go, avoiding the matrix reset.
With Louis in ullage, it remains to be seen whether Amadan has the stomach for brinksmanship this morning. Directly proportional to quantity of caffeine ingested, is my speculation.
What's it going to be, Amadan? Lambeth North? Sloane Square? Or are you going to bust the game wide open?
We're all a-quiver.
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 26 2010,11:20
Overground it is.
Ball's Pond Road.
If any of you lot fancy yourselves as co-parceners you're welcome to enfeoff the turbary rights, but I'll still be in MC before you.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,12:14
Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 26 2010,09:20) | Overground it is.
Ball's Pond Road.
If any of you lot fancy yourselves as co-parceners you're welcome to enfeoff the turbary rights, but I'll still be in MC before you. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
On the 73 or the 476?
N.B.:
OXFORD STREET, ROUTES 73 AND N73: From 0800 Saturday 16 January until December 2010, buses are diverted eastbound between Oxford Circus and Euston Square Station due to works to upgrade Tottenham Court Road Tube station and enabling works for Crossrail. Buses will not serve Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street stations in this direction. Reported: 24/03/10 12:27 Last Updated: 24/03/10 12:31
So you'd have to pick it up at Kings Cross St. Pancras or Angel.
eta: Either way, we're out of SW without Demarc, thus into Gridlock, matrix is reset (True North), Louis' ullage is revoked (but not expunged).
Still anybody's game.
eta Angel.
Posted by: Doc Bill on Mar. 26 2010,12:37
At the risk of ridicule,
Stamford Brook
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 26 2010,12:45
Embankment.
Booyakasha! And fuck the lot of yous!
Louis
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,13:17
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,10:45) | Embankment.
Booyakasha! And fuck the lot of yous!
Louis ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Well. Can't argue with that reasoning now, can we.
However, I'm still sensing a Southwest fetish here, even after Amadan's iconoclastic Ball's Pond Road move.
Seems to me there was a similar Convergence Event in the '57 Worlds. By the time the refs could call a timeout the players were huddled together in a gravitational mass rivalling anything the LHC could generate these days. Only the slow fission of the South Pacific teams prevented all of Chelsea becoming a smoldering cauldron.
I therefore opt to punt:
Snaresbrook.
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 26 2010,13:18
Using the McShite that was so graciously opened by Louis, I saunter my way and climb up the tree lined path to Bark.
However, thanks to the fact that as per the Addendum of the Second Rugby Council of 1899, from before, having opened the door I go through the parallel world, I park and move orthogonally to Monument where I climb up the ever expanding piles of scat to Tower Hill.
A Quadruple move that earns me 5 Cylons and 123.245 and T Cubits.
You heard me, Tower Hill
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,13:21
Sorry, FrankH, the MC game clock clearly shows my move to Snaresbrook preceded yours to Tower Hill by one minute. Please pick up the game from there. Thank you.
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 26 2010,13:26
Arrrghhhh! Damn you fnxtr!
I rip a hole into the space heater/DVR continium using my Tardis as I slip sides through the chute and find my move ends at Warden Street, 6 begats past my original move but 13.gy5 micro-bleeps into the Nexus Void.
Damn you!
Posted by: Doc Bill on Mar. 26 2010,13:27
Turnham Green the hard way:
Piccadilly line before 7:45 am, on Sunday.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,13:32
Quote (Doc Bill @ Mar. 26 2010,11:27) | Turnham Green the hard way:
Piccadilly line before 7:45 am, on Sunday. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Are you mad? You know you're risking implosion, right?
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 26 2010,13:38
Quote (Doc Bill @ Mar. 26 2010,13:27) | Turnham Green the hard way:
Piccadilly line before 7:45 am, on Sunday. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
I don't think so.
As fxntr did the Snaresbrook maneuver, reminiscent of the Bilge/Blythe "Over the hedge" fiasco of 1969, and my fascination with the movement of a little puck over ice, the Nexus Void and lube shop is still in effect.
You must move through yourself and find the other side for the next 1.23t time units.
That is as fxntr points out so eloquently, you don't implode first.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,13:47
Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 26 2010,11:38) | Quote (Doc Bill @ Mar. 26 2010,13:27) | Turnham Green the hard way:
Piccadilly line before 7:45 am, on Sunday. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
I don't think so.
As fxntr did the Snaresbrook maneuver, reminiscent of the Bilge/Blythe "Over the hedge" fiasco of 1969, and my fascination with the movement of a little puck over ice, the Nexus Void and lube shop is still in effect.
You must move through yourself and find the other side for the next 1.23t time units.
That is as fxntr points out so eloquently, you don't implode first. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
7:45 on Sunday, FrankH. Lube Shop is only in effect Tue-Sat.
However, Nexus Void stands.
Doc Bill, that's a do-over for you. Station?
Posted by: jeffox on Mar. 26 2010,13:58
---------------------QUOTE------------------- Turnham Green the hard way:
Piccadilly line before 7:45 am, on Sunday.
I don't think so.
As fxntr did the Snaresbrook maneuver, reminiscent of the Bilge/Blythe "Over the hedge" fiasco of 1969, and my fascination with the movement of a little puck over ice, the Nexus Void and lube shop is still in effect.
You must move through yourself and find the other side for the next 1.23t time units.
That is as fxntr points out so eloquently, you don't implode first.
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I concur, but some of us have already taken that into consideration. Still, implosion is a terrible thing to witness. Could be the pace-setter for the remainder of the dunstanfetter. I'll be the first to demand a shrubbery.
I'll oblique, just in case.
In the meantime, I've weaved a Plotsdingwether egg from my ticket stub; and, since escalators are still wild, I'll claim my baggage tags for another 0.328 fizbin. While I realize that this resembles the Ortnsnortnzablotnik maneuver, I believe that there's enough variance in the field of play to allow another slapdown. Too bad ol' TARDavison isn't hear to see that (not that I miss him). He'd probably bandwagoneer, anyway.
Oh, and I'll commission the naggly bastard.
Exit Eustace.
Aye, Luv; it's so.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,14:04
Gentlemen, order please!
This is Mornington Crescent, not Aussie Rules Hurling!
Louis could you please act as Advocate and straighten this mess out.
Thanks.
Posted by: Louis on Mar. 26 2010,14:12
Last Legal Move: Snaresbrook.
Some of you Americans seem to think that Mornington Crescent is somehow like Calvinball, an entirely ruleless and fictional game. Might I remind you that this, like the Wikipedia article, is a distinct falsehood.
The School Cormorant was Rules were handed down to us by the Town of Chipping Sodbury in the 1800s darkest recesses of antiquity. The game has a noble tradition through all civilised nations. Now don't piss me off or I'll insist we play by the rules which operated under Charlemagne, you see if I don't.
Anyway, enough tough love. I shall restart play from Snaresbrook with a move to:
Aldwych!
Louis
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 26 2010,14:23
Rubbish.
The Shamrock Contention and Grocery Stop of 2590 clearly states that all future rules should be applied moderately to the rash.
Therefore I twaddle to Baker Street where light in the head and dead on my feet, it's another crazy day as I go out of my mind to Bond Street, not shaken, but stirred.
I'll see your Charlemagne, and raise you a Ceaser!
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 26 2010,14:33
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,12:12) | Last Legal Move: Snaresbrook.
Some of you Americans seem to think that Mornington Crescent is somehow like Calvinball, an entirely ruleless and fictional game. Might I remind you that this, like the Wikipedia article, is a distinct falsehood.
The School Cormorant was Rules were handed down to us by the Town of Chipping Sodbury in the 1800s darkest recesses of antiquity. The game has a noble tradition through all civilised nations. Now don't piss me off or I'll insist we play by the rules which operated under Charlemagne, you see if I don't.
Anyway, enough tough love. I shall restart play from Snaresbrook with a move to:
Aldwych!
Louis ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Lurkers take note: that's how the game is played. Must be something in that north Wales water...
Realizing I'm probably doomed to lose all my altitude (and possibly my red tokens) I'll risk:
Finchley Road.
(If I can avoid the ol' Spoon, I'll be overjoyed.)
Posted by: FrankH on Mar. 26 2010,14:46
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 26 2010,14:33) | Lurkers take note: that's how the game is played. Must be something in that north Wales water...
(snip) ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Disregard what you read above.
He didn't say "Simon Says"!
Now, Simon Says that's how it's played in an uncivilized place like Wales.
Also, what's in the water in north Wales is what is scooped out of the Thames.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 26 2010,14:55
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,12:12) | Some of you Americans seem to think that Mornington Crescent is somehow like Calvinball, an entirely ruleless and fictional game. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
That's hard to believe, given all the recent scholarship on the subject. I think that during the course of my graduate career the Department of Morningtonia Studies had maybe three dissertations and a couple of dozen undergrad honors theses that touched on this issue.
I blame the popular press. Time Magazine's coverage of the last few International Exhibitions has confused rather than enlightened the non-playing public. This may mean trouble for the next generation of MC stars. How will they be able to nail down the big endorsement dollars if the amateur game is so misunderstood?
(And we may have to kiss goodbye any chance of being an exhibition sport at either the 2016 Summer OR 2018 Winter games.)
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,14:57
Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 26 2010,12:33) | Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,12:12) | Last Legal Move: Snaresbrook.
Some of you Americans seem to think that Mornington Crescent is somehow like Calvinball, an entirely ruleless and fictional game. Might I remind you that this, like the Wikipedia article, is a distinct falsehood.
The School Cormorant was Rules were handed down to us by the Town of Chipping Sodbury in the 1800s darkest recesses of antiquity. The game has a noble tradition through all civilised nations. Now don't piss me off or I'll insist we play by the rules which operated under Charlemagne, you see if I don't.
Anyway, enough tough love. I shall restart play from Snaresbrook with a move to:
Aldwych!
Louis ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Lurkers take note: that's how the game is played. Must be something in that north Wales water...
Realizing I'm probably doomed to lose all my altitude (and possibly my red tokens) I'll risk:
Finchley Road.
(If I can avoid the ol' Spoon, I'll be overjoyed.) ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
What's the cutoff on ghost stations? '31? '84?
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 26 2010,14:58
Quote (FrankH @ Mar. 26 2010,12:46) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 26 2010,14:33) | Lurkers take note: that's how the game is played. Must be something in that north Wales water...
(snip) ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Disregard what you read above.
He didn't say "Simon Says"!
Now, Simon Says that's how it's played in an uncivilized place like Wales.
Also, what's in the water in north Wales is what is scooped out of the Thames. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Just to bring you up to speed: Grandchampion Algernon Simon has not been a significant part of the game for more than a decade. What Simon says has very little relevance to any of the post-millennial rulesets.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 26 2010,15:04
Quote (fnxtr @ Mar. 26 2010,12:57) | Quote (Tom Ames @ Mar. 26 2010,12:33) | Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,12:12) | Last Legal Move: Snaresbrook.
Some of you Americans seem to think that Mornington Crescent is somehow like Calvinball, an entirely ruleless and fictional game. Might I remind you that this, like the Wikipedia article, is a distinct falsehood.
The School Cormorant was Rules were handed down to us by the Town of Chipping Sodbury in the 1800s darkest recesses of antiquity. The game has a noble tradition through all civilised nations. Now don't piss me off or I'll insist we play by the rules which operated under Charlemagne, you see if I don't.
Anyway, enough tough love. I shall restart play from Snaresbrook with a move to:
Aldwych!
Louis ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Lurkers take note: that's how the game is played. Must be something in that north Wales water...
Realizing I'm probably doomed to lose all my altitude (and possibly my red tokens) I'll risk:
Finchley Road.
(If I can avoid the ol' Spoon, I'll be overjoyed.) ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
What's the cutoff on ghost stations? '31? '84? ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Neither, I hope. I was planning on making a City Road play later on. I'd hate to have to change that to British Museum.
Can we have a ruling from the current Dealtercator? (I've lost track of who that is--hopefully it's not Louis again. :rolleyes: )
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 26 2010,15:06
Poor Algie. A truly sensitive soul, much misunderstood. And that dreadful business in court... Years afterwards, Monsignor Jaakontytär told me that it all could have been hushed up if the herdsman hadn't paid tax on the compensation.
Algie's cousin Gershorn Simon was another sort altogether. I could have forgiven him for making that cheese commercial - we all have to make a living - but in the very same dress? Simply crass.
But I digress. Northwick Park, unless I'm very much mistaken.
Posted by: Tom Ames on Mar. 26 2010,15:10
Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 26 2010,13:06) | Poor Algie. A truly sensitive soul, much misunderstood. And that dreadful business in court... Years afterwards, Monsignor Jaakontytär told me that it all could have been hushed up if the herdsman hadn't paid tax on the compensation.
Algie's cousin Gershorn Simon was another sort altogether. I could have forgiven him for making that cheese commercial - we all have to make a living - but in the very same dress? Simply crass.
But I digress. Northwick Park, unless I'm very much mistaken. ---------------------QUOTE-------------------
Ah, from Hills-and-Valleys to Parks-and-Greens, eh?
Nice.
Posted by: fnxtr on Mar. 26 2010,15:10
At the risk of initiating a cascade: Canons Park.
Posted by: Amadan on Mar. 26 2010,15:13
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