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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,18:29   

Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 26 2010,21:59)
Doc Bill: Thanks for helping to set up the pincer. Louis walked into it.

Not "walked". Sauntered with, dare I say it, a certain devil may care espiglerie.

Anyway. Pimlico.

Louis

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Doc Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,18:42   

As I sit here on a bench outside the Waitrose at King's Cross munching on a chip buttie and a bag of Prawn Cocktail Snips, two things occur to me.

First, Amadan may in fact catch the 1835 to Bayswater at the rate he's chugging down Platform 4 unhampered, it appears, by his polyester pants generating enough static electricity to light Wormwood Scrugs for a year, alas, the Bayswater train leaves from Platform 3.  Ah, he's off ... to Birmingham.

And, second, where have all the chew toys gone?  Not a creationist, er, Seeker of Truth, to be seen in these parts.  I suppose I'll have to have a choc-ice and a pint alone.  Again.

South Kensington.

  
FrankH



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,18:51   

Finishing up a 70 hour work week.  Trying to scoop what left of my brains back into my skull.  I've let my mind wander too far to exciting places as I make my move to:

Finchley Road

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Timothy McDougald



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,18:52   

Quote (Louis @ 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

Have we invoked any of the Great Old Ones to devour our opponents? Have tracks been torn up and subway cars been devoured by hideous unnamed evil? Is London still standing (or at least parts thereof)? Then I'd say we Americans have been a little too polite. It's not a proper game of Mornington Crescent unless Shub-Niggurath (bare minimum) has put in an appearance says I.

At any rate:

Pudding Mill Lane

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Church burning ebola boy

FTK: I Didn't answer your questions because it beats the hell out of me.

PaV: I suppose for me to be pried away from what I do to focus long and hard on that particular problem would take, quite honestly, hundreds of thousands of dollars to begin to pique my interest.

   
Amadan



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,18:57   

We seem to have received some correspondence!



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JoeG BTW dumbass- some variations help ensure reproductive fitness so they cannot be random wrt it.

   
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:03   

Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 26 2010,23:57)
We seem to have received some correspondence!


We have been quite literally overcome with correspondance in the form of a postcard!

Ahhh Humph. The world is less wonderful place without you in it. Everyone miss a turn in rememberance.

Louis

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:04   

Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 26 2010,23:52)
Quote (Louis @ 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

Have we invoked any of the Great Old Ones to devour our opponents? Have tracks been torn up and subway cars been devoured by hideous unnamed evil? Is London still standing (or at least parts thereof)? Then I'd say we Americans have been a little too polite. It's not a proper game of Mornington Crescent unless Shub-Niggurath (bare minimum) has put in an appearance says I.

At any rate:

Pudding Mill Lane

Well I suppose you could always team up with the French and try to "introduce us to democracy" or "instigate regime change".

Actually, that's not a bad idea...

Louis

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Timothy McDougald



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:08   

Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,19:04)
Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 26 2010,23:52)
Quote (Louis @ 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

Have we invoked any of the Great Old Ones to devour our opponents? Have tracks been torn up and subway cars been devoured by hideous unnamed evil? Is London still standing (or at least parts thereof)? Then I'd say we Americans have been a little too polite. It's not a proper game of Mornington Crescent unless Shub-Niggurath (bare minimum) has put in an appearance says I.

At any rate:

Pudding Mill Lane

Well I suppose you could always team up with the French and try to "introduce us to democracy" or "instigate regime change".

Actually, that's not a bad idea...

Louis

We do have a secret, undercover, disguised agent working on a plan to do just that.

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Church burning ebola boy

FTK: I Didn't answer your questions because it beats the hell out of me.

PaV: I suppose for me to be pried away from what I do to focus long and hard on that particular problem would take, quite honestly, hundreds of thousands of dollars to begin to pique my interest.

   
Amadan



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:09   

Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,19:03)
Everyone miss a turn in rememberance.

Louis

B(l)ank.

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"People are always looking for natural selection to generate random mutations" - Densye  4-4-2011
JoeG BTW dumbass- some variations help ensure reproductive fitness so they cannot be random wrt it.

   
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:12   

Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 27 2010,00:08)
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,19:04)
Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 26 2010,23:52)
 
Quote (Louis @ 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

Have we invoked any of the Great Old Ones to devour our opponents? Have tracks been torn up and subway cars been devoured by hideous unnamed evil? Is London still standing (or at least parts thereof)? Then I'd say we Americans have been a little too polite. It's not a proper game of Mornington Crescent unless Shub-Niggurath (bare minimum) has put in an appearance says I.

At any rate:

Pudding Mill Lane

Well I suppose you could always team up with the French and try to "introduce us to democracy" or "instigate regime change".

Actually, that's not a bad idea...

Louis

We do have a secret, undercover, disguised agent working on a plan to do just that.

Reasons why I favour a republic instead of a monarchy number 1....

Louis

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Timothy McDougald



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:22   

Could be worse...

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Church burning ebola boy

FTK: I Didn't answer your questions because it beats the hell out of me.

PaV: I suppose for me to be pried away from what I do to focus long and hard on that particular problem would take, quite honestly, hundreds of thousands of dollars to begin to pique my interest.

   
jeffox



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:25   

While I may not be the most adept at gamesmanship, I do seem to be picking this up pretty well.  For an American fox, anyway.  Besides, while you all were admiring the last few moves, I snuck across the Excelsior line at least 3 times.  :)  Plus, I'm currently writing the software to put MC on the Gameboy.  And they told me it couldn't be done!!!

Which brings me to Birmingham, where I'll visit Sailor Sam (again).  No eggs, though.

Highcastle and the buildings adjacent (I tend to plan big).

  
jeffox



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:32   

Wait!!  I almost forgot:

Exit at Abertawae with a swan, see?

:)

  
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:38   

Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 27 2010,00:22)
Could be worse...

NO. FUCKING. WAY.

In the words of the Clue team: "How can you top him?"

Louis

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,19:42   

To cleanse the palette ready for another round:

Humphrey Lyttleton's Bad Penny Blues

Louis

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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,20:38   

Quote (Louis @ Mar. 26 2010,17:42)
To cleanse the palette ready for another round:

Humphrey Lyttleton's Bad Penny Blues

Louis


1) I notice the piano is not fucking blue.

B) That's not blues, it's just boogie-woogie on 'ludes.

iii) @jeffox: Wot, Birmingham, Alabama? "International" means players, not systems.

4) Tasteful applicaton of the DLR there, 'Far. Can I call you 'Far?

I'm a fan of the Siberry Symmetry Method*, as apparent in my choice of...

Harlesden.

*J. Siberry, the fellow Canadian who was quite obsessed with mirror/balance play in the mid 1980's. Never really got her very far professionally ("It takes forever, if you go by inertia"), but the aesthetes among us appreciated her artistry.

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Timothy McDougald



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 26 2010,23:18   

Yeah man don't try to lay no Boogie-Woogie on us. Such silly attempts allow me to play:

West India Quay

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Church burning ebola boy

FTK: I Didn't answer your questions because it beats the hell out of me.

PaV: I suppose for me to be pried away from what I do to focus long and hard on that particular problem would take, quite honestly, hundreds of thousands of dollars to begin to pique my interest.

   
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 27 2010,05:53   

Quote (afarensis @ Mar. 27 2010,04:18)
Yeah man don't try to lay no Boogie-Woogie on us. Such silly attempts allow me to play:

West India Quay

{Frantic Speeding Up Of Play As I am In Real Life Off To London In Ten Minutes}

Redbridge.

Louis

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Doc Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 27 2010,11:46   

Station benches are highly underrated.  I slept like a baby!

I think I'll start the day off with a pint of mild at my favorite Courage pub in


Southfields

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 27 2010,16:26   

We now interrupt this exciting game of MC, to
bring you a word from our sponsor...



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Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 28 2010,11:51   

All I can say is:



Mornington Crescent. I win.

(That, by the way, is an original photo, taken yesterday on my iPhone from a moving taxi, so I reckon that's good enough)

Now, since I have been out on the lash in London this weekend:



Goodnight. I am off to get a new liver.

Louis

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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 28 2010,23:06   

Quote (Louis @ Mar. 28 2010,09:51)
All I can say is:



Mornington Crescent. I win.

(That, by the way, is an original photo, taken yesterday on my iPhone from a moving taxi, so I reckon that's good enough)

Now, since I have been out on the lash in London this weekend:



Goodnight. I am off to get a new liver.

Louis

Plays like a champion, drinks like a champion, passes out like a champion.

New game Monday?

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Doc Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 28 2010,23:21   

As President-4-Life of the Darwinian Pressure Group, Delta Pi Gamma, I hereby award for

Exceptional use of an iPhone

LOUIS

3.14159 points and a Free PInt the next time we meet*.





*not redeemable in Euros.

Another view courtesy of Google Maps and my avatar:



  
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2010,03:43   

I would like to point out I am never drinking again. Never ever ever ever.

Until next time.

That is all.

Louis

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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2010,09:20   

Quote (Louis @ Mar. 29 2010,01:43)
I would like to point out I am never drinking again. Never ever ever ever.

Until next time.

That is all.

Louis

Or, as a hungover Lou Grant once said, "They should raise the legal drinking age to 70."

Plaistow.

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Amadan



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2010,10:04   

In honour of Louis's sub-meteorological state, I was considering

Hanger Lane


but memories of several wearisome journies of my own through the twilit ordeal that he now endures lead me instead to

Ickenham

(and "gag me with a Spoon!" as Moon Zappa said)

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JoeG BTW dumbass- some variations help ensure reproductive fitness so they cannot be random wrt it.

   
fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2010,10:27   

Quote (Amadan @ Mar. 29 2010,08:04)
In honour of Louis's sub-meteorological state, I was considering

Hanger Lane


but memories of several wearisome journies of my own through the twilit ordeal that he now endures lead me instead to

Ickenham

(and "gag me with a Spoon!" as Moon Zappa said)

Interesting. I have to say I prefer a wide-open game to all that crowded and timid shuffling about that was going on last game.

(Though "Turnham Green" would have been a propos, too.)

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2010,12:55   

Uxbridge.

Louis

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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2010,13:20   

Quote (Louis @ Mar. 29 2010,10:55)
Uxbridge.

Louis

Oh, hardy har har.

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2010,13:43   

Quote (fnxtr @ Mar. 29 2010,18:20)
Quote (Louis @ Mar. 29 2010,10:55)
Uxbridge.

Louis

Oh, hardy har har.

You wanted wide open play, I merely obliged.

Louis

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