We haven't had a game for a while so thought I could start a new one. Finsbury rules only please. :)

If I may begin I'll start with:

Elephant & Castle

And will open the triangle. :P

Angel.....

:o Didn't expect that.

Aldwych. :(

Baker Street.

:D

Grrr. That puts me in Prig.

Someone else better join as I have no choice but

Mile End

Grrr. That puts me in Prig.

Someone else better join as I have no choice but

Mile End
He he he :D .

Which allows me, of course, to do this: Belsize Park.

And with that, I think you're left with only two options, and one of which you can't do because you opened the triangle in your first move :P .

Under the perpendicular gaming rules, I'll play 'Oxford Circus' :)

Under the perpendicular gaming rules, I'll play 'Oxford Circus' :)
I didn't think you could do that with the triangle open. I'm sure perpendicular no longer applies :suspect: .

Under the perpendicular gaming rules, I'll play 'Oxford Circus' :)

Thank you!

Puts me in the loop but: Dollis Hill

Edit: Oh, Hecate has a point. Was Oxford Circus allowed? I'm sure it must be acceptable as a lateral shift. :confused:

I've just checked in my copy of 'Mornington Crescent For Dummies', and it's definitely allowed - play on! :D

Bank......

Bank......

Are you sure? :suspect: In weak positional play, it is vital to consolidate an already strong outer square, e.g., Pentonville Road

Dollis Hill :rolleyes:

Are you sure? :suspect: In weak positional play, it is vital to consolidate an already strong outer square, e.g., Pentonville Road

Kibitzing isn't allowed unless you're yiddish!

North Woolwich.

I've just checked in my copy of 'Mornington Crescent For Dummies', and it's definitely allowed - play on! :D
Dummies is right! If you have an open triangle and you've stated only Finsbury rules, then perpendicular isn't allowed. In which case, I'm sorry but you're back to Belsize Park.

You really should consult an up to date guide book :roll: .

Dollis Hill :|

Waterloo...

Waterloo...

Baker Street

Chalk Farm...

Dollis Hill :(

Kensington High Streeet

Kensington High Streeet

:clap:

That's broken my loop!

So:

Seven Sisters

(and I reckon I can do Mornington Crescent in 3!)

Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park

I'll try for the Humber Gambit using one of my bridges:

Land of Green Ginger

Baker Street...

HAH!

Euston

:banana:

:clap:

That's broken my loop!

So:

Seven Sisters

(and I reckon I can do Mornington Crescent in 3!)

No! The lateral shift decisively breaks opponents' horizontal and vertical approaches! :nono:

Hang on, we always play to the rising moon on Sunday. That means you need a dip before you can even think of Mornington Crescent.

So.... Kings Cross temporary.

Hang on, we always play to the rising moon on Sunday. That means you need a dip before you can even think of Mornington Crescent.

So.... Kings Cross temporary.

It's not Sunday. :hihi:

Doesn't that put you in knid before you've started? :)

I'm never playing Finsbury Rules again. :shakes:

Back to Elephant & Castle.

Cricklewood.

It's not Sunday. :hihi:

Gah, my deception is foiled!


St Johns Wood.

Kilburn High Road via Bethnal Green.

I'm going to try Chiswick with a Hampton Wick pending!

I'm going to try Chiswick with a Hampton Wick pending!

Clever!

I'll go with Cockfosters. I'm not sure whether that helps or hinders.

(Sorry, I'm more familiar with the rules of Malin Bridge (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=127589))

Which leads to a trio (without spoon):

Kensal Green, Woodside Park and then Oxford Circus.

I'm one move away!

Oh bugger! That was definitely my fault, I should have headed north there. Can anyone stop him?

um, Pimlico?

um, Pimlico?

Cunning...but I am just going to throw in....
Tooting Broadway...I think that may just save the day!

Finchley Road & Frognal (Jubilee Line :))

Well done that man! (woman?)

I'll risk a bananarama on the escalator so keep to the right because I'm going for...



... Covent Garden :o

Hatton Cross....

Damn! That puts me in spoon for 3 moves. :cry:

Entirely OT I know, but Mornington Crescent is closed at weekends these days. Resume Monday?

according to the latest mornington crescent journal, it can still be played, its just harder to win
so i'll do my trademark blocking move & go for waterloo.

I'm going out on a limb here and going for Wapping..it's a long shot but if I play it with my Dizooka??

I'd have gone for the penny whistle but each to their own.

(1 more move and Iii'll beee baacckk)

Dresden Hauptbahnhof

Ealing Common > South Kenton > Chalk Farm

:nod:

Sloane Square, with no trump.

heathrow terminals 1,2,3

And... 4! :)

picking up a bit now, thought I'd knurled it with Sloane Square...

Chorleywood.

Elephant & Castle.

Hah! That gets me 2 green tokens and the next player lands in kip for 2 turns.

In kip eh? If you'd held back at Bank, then you might have had me in knid, but kip? I'm not that naive!

I'll take Borehamwood, Herts are trumps now.

Sorry I can't move at all - no tricks and my South rubber is blocked.

After much consideration I'm going to throw caution to the wind and go for a Shepherds Bush!:hihi::hihi:

I'm not that naive!

I'll take Borehamwood, Herts are trumps now.
Sorry I can't move at all - no tricks and my South rubber is blocked.
After much consideration I'm going to throw caution to the wind and go for a Shepherds Bush!:hihi::hihi:
Breathtaking play!

And, since the only possible riposte I can postulate would involve a deadly transverse diagonal (which isn't available when Herts are trumps), I must sadly "get off in Hillsborough". Carry on!

Breathtaking play!

And, since the only possible riposte I can postulate would involve a deadly transverse diagonal (which isn't available when Herts are trumps), I must sadly "get off in Hillsborough". Carry on!

You obviously missed the Hampton Wick option which would have given you a free go on two down escalators bring you out at....NO ..I can't say it!!

Hampton Wick? Nah, the '63 Fenchurch Street rule would have had more of an effect.

I'm nearly there now anyway, just waiting for someone to play the next move!

You obviously missed the Hampton Wick option which would have given you a free go on two down escalators bring you out at....NO ..I can't say it!!

Ah well, I "got off in Hillsborough". I'm doomed!

Tooting Bec and no mistake.

Too difficult?

There's one move out of the seven or eight possible moves that's a blinder, if you play it right.

And no, it's not the Dulwich defence before you ask.

The Dulwich defence only works after the watershed so that can't be your plan :suspect:.

Therefore I'll take the 8:35 move to Victoria Embankment.

Fairlop......:D

................ :d

<stifles a yawn>
Golders Green.

c'mon, it's a gift. Let's get this over with.

Do you want to reconsider this move....Golders Green...wednesday??? Surely NOT!!

Are we using Finsbury rules? :huh:

Are we using Finsbury rules? :huh:

What's the alternative??

What's the alternative??

Non-Finsbury Rules? :D

I thought that we were using the 1926 Moscow Codicil as per Sir Perigrine's last wishes?

I thought that we were using the 1926 Moscow Codicil as per Sir Perigrine's last wishes?

Not allowed anymore under 1972 charleston rule changing :(

So much for the last will and testament of a great man! :(


Euston.

Isn't there a diversionary tactic involving Hampton Wick and Cockfosters?? I have lost my copy of the rules...can you help??

Still at Euston.

can you not go on to Camden and double back to Mornington Crescent??

Not after 10 pm. south of Kensington High Street :( In Kip.

Yes..of course..forgot!! :)

I always thought that the Finsbury rules meant it was a straight rules game, which means it is inadmissible to transfer inversely?

So to adhere strictly to this my move is 'Upney'

This game is getting complicated...anyone for Snap??

This game is getting complicated...anyone for Snap??

If you are getting confused Salome you can start at Tottenham Court Road.
Just bear in mind that direct approaches are NOT allowed (this is illegal in all variations of the game for obvious reasons). However, a simple triangulation or say via Oxford Circus will do :D

well thanks for clarifying that point...it kept me awake half the night!! :hihi::hihi::hihi:

You're welcome :)
I forgot to mention if you are playing by the Argyle Street Parabola variation, it allows for a maximum of two nudges but only if the run of play is with the poke holder.

Ahh...but this doesn't apply when you are accompanied by two nuns on bicycles does it??

Bicycles are not allowed on the Tube!

Two nuns being carried by a Trappist Monk then!! :hihi::hihi: (much the same thing!)

Where Monks of any variety are involved Stovold’s Defence is applied which means that the Argyle Street Parabola variation is still allowable during Forward Triangulation, but Back Doubling may only be attempted after a Northern Approach.

I hope that clarifies the situation.

.....and if the monk is wearing a paticularly flamboyant habit and carrying a ferret...then what?? Am I right in assuming that in this scenario any back doubling would incur a penalty??

.....and if the monk is wearing a paticularly flamboyant habit and carrying a ferret...then what?? Am I right in assuming that in this scenario any back doubling would incur a penalty??

Hmmm.
To be fair i think Monks in general are in contravention of Stovold’s 2nd amendment to the standard convention (1972) This, of course, predates the Jubilee Line extensions in both directions but it does mention 'dirty habits' in paragraph 4.1.

I think I shall have to re think my strategy and forego the Bethnal Green By pass move which I was seriously considering. Onger may be my only alternative...tricky!!

I think I shall have to re think my strategy and forego the Bethnal Green By pass move which I was seriously considering. Onger may be my only alternative...tricky!!

Tricky but i'm sure it would be ok if things were kept as simple as possible by suspending Rule 2 and Prime Move Triangulations could be made only within a lateral orbit thus allowing you to move via Onger without hardship. Best of luck!

Puurleeese! Will sombody just make a move!!!

I can't believe I'm having to do this:

Canary Wharf

Battersea - and I thank you phan for your noble sacrifice.

We're rolling again.

Elephant & Castle... with a reverse shunt into the service siding!

Come on, guys! Has no-one made a sextuple Acton yet?

Kings Cross

Hmmmmmm, difficult but i think........


Ealing.

Ealing.

You fell for it! :D


Mornington Crescent!

:banana:

Finally!

Someone else choose the rulebook this time, the Finsbury Park restriction did hold us back for a while..

:huh: Damn and blast! Well played.


I think as winner you should chose which rules meaks. :)

Oh no, I made that mistake with Finsbury!

Any other suggestions before we go again?

we could play the 1941 revised edition rules but it would mean setting fire to the east end. :hihi:

I'm up for it....but someone else can start it!! :)

we could play the 1941 revised edition rules but it would mean setting fire to the east end. :hihi:
Hmm, in true SF fashion we get the race card being played. The Germans are in no position to play that game any more. :hihi:


We could go for something classical, perhaps only using the stations with horse hair steam recyclers?

In which case i have no option but to open with

Lancaster Gate. :)

Whoohooo! Earl of Arundel & Surrey rules with the Royal Standard amendment. Wikkid!

Cockfosters

Cockfosters

Ooh, we've all been there...

Just get on with it, we're not using the Dick Emery Convention you know ducky. :nono:

Oooh in that case I'm going to sneak in with Barbican...

Devious very devious :o

:hihi:

In that case its Queensbury!

Can you do that? I thought with royal standard ammendment you could only transverse laterally after a Limehouse Play? Or am i wrong?

Or am i wrong?

'fraid so.

Bull and Bush.

Tooting Bec.

I was really tempted by the amusing move of Tooting Bec but twas not to be alas so,

after much deliberation, I am going to throw in Tuffnell Park......

Kings Cross

Ealing Broadway

*holds breff as it's getting exciting now...*

This game is fascinating, keeps me on the edge of my seat! Where can I go to learn how to play please?

There are regular conventions held at the Royal Court of Saxony in Exile but the usual way is to find a Grand Shunter and ply him or her with drink and painted ladies.

St Pancras

Caledonian Road!

Crafty!

Thornton Heath

Green Park.

Can anyone elaborate whether Westminster is wild on a Tuesday, please?

Yes, but it's GMT not BST. ;)



Kent House

Bethnal Green, but with the left handed circuit as approved by Rimmer 1978

Now you've messed up my 'Bradwell Gambit' leaving me totally flummoxed.

Oh hang on errrrrr

Swiss Cottage.

Uppington Mezzaine on the Prince Albert Line

Chiswick Park

Chalfont & Latimer! :P

<Complete aside>

It's not my go, obviously, but I thought I'd mention some SQL (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_geographic_maps/SQL) based on GPS data available under the GFDL (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_geographic_maps), which I found whilst trying to research the Hawksmoor Manoeuvre.

</Complete aside>

And a heavy hint to the next player - think Latimer ;)

You nearly had me there maggi. :o

Belsize Park

Well here's a bit of a risk, I'm going outside Zone 6...

Denham.

Ooooooooooooooooo :shocked:

Langdon Park.
The Mielck fanchietto

If I have to pop into Harrods for an updated A-Z, will that put me in kip? And if so, for how many turns?

Stockwell.
Permissable move for Yorkshiremen but not recommended for South Americans.

Golders green via Stepney.

Mornington Crescent!

You nearly had me there maggi. :o

It's always worth a try :). I have, in the past, played poker with a guy I told looked cool in his mirrorshades :hihi:

Mornington Crescent!

Yay! Congratulations, Hopman.* Your turn to call and start.

*I was about to quibble before I noticed the Royal Standard amendment. Well spotted.

Wow! Did you see how he snuck in there? If Mort hadn't gone via Stepney he would have been in kip... a close thing but for the Royal Standard Amendment...! Bravo! :clap:

Come on then... let's go again.

I was so intent on avoiding maggi's trap that i got suckered :blush::blush::suspect:

Don't beat yourself up about it mort, its so easily done, and it's happened to me before while I was playing in the Cunard Mid-Atlantic Treaty Tourney '97.

So shall we kick off a new game or shall we await the winner in time honoured fashion?

Mind you if he doesn't turn up before tonights full moon he will forfeit on grounds of vernal disadvantage.

I think Hopman's definitely defaulted or he's got himself stuck in kip. So over to you Tony.............

Let's go BIG and zone 1...

Covent Garden!

I like your style young man :)

Blackfriars

Hmm, that's a cute one.

Chalfont.

Chalfont.

Oh i see what your doing, i like the cut of your jib young Sir.

I'm going to try something unorthodox here and use a Picard Manoeuvre, which for the uninitiated is a little like an Ardus Exception.
In many ways it's like a Harley counter defensive move but it takes account of the special exception ruling of 1972 (4th Edition rules of course)


Lancaster Gate.

(Risky i know, but its all part of my gameplan) ;)

Sorry I've been away folks, butI went down to the smoke to gen up on tactics and got waylaid whilst there. Don't believe everything you've been told. Oyster cards are not a great aphrodisiac after all! However after one rather dodgy oyster I am left with two moves: one to the nearest loo and the other works well with the game (and my feelings)

Turnham Green.

Oh dear Hopman, sorry about your upset, and just to rub salt into the wounds :gag: [as it were ]



Waterloo :hihi::hihi:

Crikey are you serious? Waterloo? Very cute, and just when it looked as though it was going the same way as the Peking Symposium. :huh:

OK, as Blacksheep has something odd going on here I'm going to try stalling with a maintenance loop. Let's see if we can force his hand with the dodgy Oyster Card..




Turnham Green.

Belsize Park...see...it's that simple!!:)

Belsize Park eh? A very cunning move Salome.

Hmm, this is proving difficult. Ah....yes! I know what move to make now! Of course, using the James Bond manoeuvre (from Die Another Day), it has to be..... Vauxhall Cross !

Get out of that if you can!

Easy peasy - Besize Park :P


[ Under the revised amendments to the addenda to the revisons of the Savoy Gambit rules - I can do this and avoid kip if I am eating a ham sandwich - and i am - so there ]

Did you know that the Russian word for railway station (Vokzal (вокза́л)) is derived from the word "Vauxhall"?

Anyway:

Belsize Park -> Balham (gateway to the south!)

[Avoid the wheel tapper - ' There's no work for me here, I'm off!']

Mansion House.

I'm off to Tooting Broadway.................

I'm off to Tooting Broadway.................

Erm, surely you have to avoid anything on the Northern Line (apart from MC) after Mansion House?

I may be confused here, though - I'm a bit overawed after learning that Tony actually played in the legendary Cunard Mid-Atlantic Treaty Tourney '97. There must be interesting stories to tell.

Whoops! Sorry.

Ignore me - that rule was repealed under the Livingstone Millennium amendments :blush:

Carry on!

Tsk maggi, it's not like you to get your protocols in a muddle :)

Which brings me to Clapham South ........

Colliers Wood
but I wouldn't.

Colliers Wood
but I wouldn't.

What would it take to tempt you into making this move??:P

I think I may be allowed back in again now, after my rather poor Chalfont & Latimer attempt (:blush:) with an interesting (if slightly outrageous) forward shuffle:

Theydon Bois

Gare du Nord

Moorfields

Crouch End. .... on a diagonal obviously.

If mort can play a diagonal, then I can surely play a forward reverse skip move? If so, that allows me to revert to mort's earlier move of ... Clapham South!

NB Please remember that under the forward reverse skip rules, only one station is allowed to be repeated within five moves (whether a reverse or forward play). I know this rule is difficult to comprehend, but rules are rules after all - and I shall be watching keenly to detect any mistakes over the next five moves.

cockfosters

Kensal Green!

Green Park

At the risk of a Queens Passage being followed by a Kings Entry...

Tower Gateway

(i'm so close i can taste it)

Hmm, I can how this might turn out but I'm going for Churchills Favourite!

Tooting Broadway.

Preston Road.
Forming the first leg of the Rushden Diamond so beloved by the late Willie.

Waterloo East

I claim benefit of clergy and advance to Southwark :o.

well, I'm going to make a triple pass on the reverse diagonal, and make a dash for Pall Mall

well, I'm going to make a triple pass on the reverse diagonal, and make a dash for Pall Mall

Ouch. A glaring error there me thinks.... :P

Moor Park via Hampstead, completing the triangle.

I just knew that rule book was out of date. Drat!

Chuff me, this is going a little faster than the 2007 Gdn Brown Edition anticipated. I might need to check the Tokyo Escrow...


Lancaster Gate.

Nice to see some brisk, hardnosed play after all those primping exhibition moves.

…like an arrow to: >>--->

Piccadilly Circus

Thanks, Phan! Mornington Crescent :D

Wooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

Look at THAT!!

The last time that I saw something so slick ... well let's just say that it was mid-Atlantic!

:o Blast it and i was poised like a coiled spring only to be gazumped by maggi. :help:

A well deserved victory for maggi! Quite an impressive move actually to clinch the game. Well done maggi!

Cheers, chums :)

Ok, let's play the Bedlam Variant with manual trades wild. That'll make it pretty easy for newbies to join in, whilst (I hope) providing some challenges for the gurus.

Starting with...

Angel

St Mary Cray.

St Mary Cray.

Nice one. That's the inclusive attitude I was looking for :) For anyone who wants to join in, here's a hint (a genuine one, not just to lead mort astray! ;)).

Where did Bob Holness impersonate Raphael Ravenscroft?

Highgate - 3rd sepulchre from the right as after you pass the ' Flangeworth Folly'

Green Park.

You walked into that one hopman - I can play my Strump card!


So....Bethnal Green

Bank
…
…

Bank
…
…

I doubt you'll get away with this...I played my Tooting Beck and it didn't do a bit of good...they're playing to their own rules....do you know I am beginning to think they are making them up as they go along!:o:o Cockfosters to the lot of them I say!!

Making them up? Pah! It's clear to anyone that we're playing the 1907 edition with concessions for pensioners.

Euston

Marble Arch....waving a borrowed pension book!!:P

Brick Lane

Theydon Bois. I believe that the Bedlam Variant makes specific provision for the Winter Fuel Allowance.

Theydon Bois. I believe that the Bedlam Variant makes specific provision for the Winter Fuel Allowance.


Only if it's received by 4th December and must be for single occupancy!! Hounslow West

Russell Square

I was once told a story by an old player at the Cunard Mid-Atlantic Treaty Tourney '97 really enlightened me on the way the game used to be played.

There we were bobbing up and down in a day boat when Young Ernie just came out with the most amazing description of how the game could turn on a sixpence if you applied the techniques made popular by infamous Old Mick.

It turned out that Old Mick was actually from aristocratic bloodline and was more properly known as The Young M'Lord Mike. He had studied in Peking and Bombay in his early years, but sadly his dalliances in Thailand with the Ambassadors daughter made him a figure of fun in London and when he returned he found that he had been disowned by his family. He was still a young man yet he found himself penniless and without friends and no way to get back into the happy-go-lucky society life that he used to enjoy to the full.

Somehow through a combination of bad luck and a misunderstood speech by Thomas Telford on Matters Pertaining To Ironwork he ended up in the poor-house, and there he embarked upon the gentle journey into the most complete madness.

It was during this time that he honed his skills, absorbing information with the voracity of an autistic teenager and somehow begged the money from the Institution for an experiment, an experiment that would change the world as it was known, an experiment from which there would be no turning back.

On that day as his peers gathered he noticed a familiar face in the assembled gaggle of scientists, researchers, doctors, and full backs. Right there, at the back was his mother, or at least he thought that it was his mother. It had been thirty years since he had seen her and the old woman looked gaunt and weary yet he could see the love that sparkled through the tears in her still-young eyes. He pretended that he had not seen her, feigning recognition in case it was detected by his financiers and might prove ruinous to his, and mankinds, ultimate moment. The experiment commenced...

I learned a lot from Young Earnie that day at the Cunard Mid-Atlantic Treaty Tourney '97 .



Bank.

...snip long story...

I learned a lot from Young Earnie that day at the Cunard Mid-Atlantic Treaty Tourney '97 .

Ah, yes, Earnest O McDawn. Terrible gobsh*te, I always thought.

Bank.

Colliers Wood

Oxford circus [ using the reverse lateral with some trepidation]

Nice one Morty - The reverse lateral move has thrown me somewhat :suspect:

:idea: I think the only thing i can do now is follow the Volta Constellation Protocol of 1872 and move Northwest in a fashion characterised by the pre-eminent Archibold Rumpus of Nuneaton.

Bromley-by-Bow.

Aggresive move i'll grant you but its dog eat dog in this game :twisted:

Whooo that's quite a move to pull :o

You're right Morty, it was a great move, but after nearly 24 hours i feel i've waited long enough at this stop so i'm moving again regardless of any regulations. Its freezing on the Bromley-by-Bow platform!

I’m feeling a tad eccentric today so I’m going to assume a gruntfuttock's posture enabling me to enact the Shoreditch Revenge. That way my move should polarise on a Northwest/Southeast axis bearing in mind Rooney’s Paradox is in still force of course.

Totteridge & Whetstone – A Northern Line Mongoose Gambit

"Come and 'ave a go if yer think yer 'ard enough"! :hihi:

Was going to take up your challenge but the ticket office was closed....................

Anyhow...should sheep be on the underground...I think NOT!! Flock Off!!:hihi::hihi:

The main problem with the mongoose gambit is that it leaves you so very open to this


Chelsea harbour bridge.


So nyaaa nyaaaa :P:P:)

The main problem with the mongoose gambit is that it leaves you so very open to this


Chelsea harbour bridge.


So nyaaa nyaaaa :P:P:)


Darned Cat!!!:mad:

The main problem with the mongoose gambit is that it leaves you so very open to this

Chelsea harbour bridge.

So nyaaa nyaaaa :P:P:)


A move indisputably malapropos in its deviousness.

...he plays Tufnell Park with a flourish

Tufnell Park

Shepherds Bush. Double points and a bonus for me :cool:

Shepherds Bush. Double points and a bonus for me :cool:

Woah nice move mag :cool:
You da man :thumbsup:

That's a cracking example of the Murchison Irreversible Vortex. Well played sir.

Now then, after checking the rule book (1863 fluffy rabbit slipper version, [par 2.1.1] ) i reckon i can legally do a traingular pincer move.

Chalk Farm.

Continuing the inversion to its obvious conclusion :wink:

Now then, after checking the rule book (1863 fluffy rabbit slipper version, [par 2.1.1] ) i reckon i can legally do a traingular pincer move.

Chalk Farm.

Continuing the inversion to its obvious conclusion :wink:

I'd say beware of obvious conclusions. I think Chalk Farm is legal, but not necessarily for the reasons you assume.

My most recent version of par 2.1.1 [i][a][iv][9] (dated 8/12/1957 *) redefines pincer moves with examples, and after this evening's study, I'd say Chalk Farm is valid because of your previous gruntfuttock's assumption. The reference doesn't explicitly state that the Shoreditch Revenge has been rescinded, so we must conclude that it hasn't.

I'm pretty sure that it isn't my go - but I'll play my Bagsie card at this point to see how things turn out.


*Anniversary! How frabjous is that!

Time to play my really crafty move, using the M25 Orbital deviation rule. You'll love this....

Chalfont and Latimer!

NB Remember, you can't play Chorleywood or Epping now, or Amersham or Chesham - as they too fall outside the M25 Orbital, and you're only allowed to use the M25 Orbital once* (*source: 1998 Toronto International Mornington Crescent Rules Revision Convention). I said it was a crafty move!

... anyway, so there we were watching the final semi-final at the '87 Cunard Mis-Atlantic Tourney when there was an almighty crash.

You would have thought that the heavens had opened and sent down a fistful of giant thunderbolts. We all looked around thinking that we had somehow become caught up in a Titanic style event. There were terrible screams from the adjacent Grand Ballroom which we felt sure must be where the water was rushing in through the gashed hull.

Tentatively we went to see if we could help only to find worried bystanders gathered around a shattered chandelier that had crashed to the floor in a bizarre Only Fools & Horses style chandelier cleaning accident.

Who would have thought it?






Mornington Crescent!

Damn yer eyes Sir :!: Well played.

Shall we play the 1997 Sheffield & District CAMRA rules? Apparently it does allow for keg beer establishments as well, and the beard rule has been relaxed as a means of inclusion.

I'll start –

The Pakenham Arms (alighting at Kings Cross/St Pancras obviously)

Par 3.7.1 [z^#] (revised Jan 2001) allows me to impose a five move ban and no triangulation on the Victoria line.
I know it’s a tough start but I never said it was going to be easy.

The much lauded Camra rules also allow for the playing of folk music i hope you realise :o:o

However to avoid the whole messy issue of morris dancers and similar hazards

Savoy bar and Grill

[ With a short pause for a pot of tea an a selection of cakes ]

Savoy bar and Grill

[ With a short pause for a pot of tea an a selection of cakes ]

Time to move along now, Madam (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7145560.stm).

West Ham

Oh, and congrats on winning the last game, Tony

With some reluctance [ they had to get the builders to carry me out :o ]


Picadilly Circus

Oi! CAMRA rules. It's not your round. :nono:

If i can't have my afternoon tea then i claim slackers priviledge and go

Hackney Empire

Oxford Circus

New figures from CAMRA are now showing that a whopping 26.6% of pints served in pubs contain less than 95% beer. With this in mind i intend to go for a pint of cask London Pride in The Kings Arms at Shepherd Market as i know they serve full measures.

An so thus i move stealth like to Green Park. :suspect:

ooooo sneaky is more like it


right then time to tickle things up a bit with a hugely controversial


Vauxhall bridge

Vauxhall bridge

I was completely convinced I could play Canning Town at this point ('cos it's on the Jubilee Line), but I can't figure it out :(

Dollis Hill

:o Great Scot, I appear to be stuck in the gravitational vortex created by Maggi’s last shunt to Dollis Hill.

Believe it or not the vortex has thrown me ‘Sarf’ of the river and I am forced to start my defensive moves from Tooting Bec.

:huh: I’ll be ages at this rate unless I find a loophole in the rules allowing a backwards North-bound triangulation.

:idea: So I’ve just asked the lovely Samantha if she could provide a High-Tech E-mail Mornington Superhighway version of the rules, but she doesn't have a PC. Perhaps someone could give her one? :heyhey:

:shocked:............

I’ve just asked the lovely Samantha if she could provide a High-Tech E-mail Mornington Superhighway version of the rules, but she doesn't have a PC. Perhaps someone could give her one?

You don't really need the High-Tech version of the rules, as long as she gives you a firm grasp on the essentials.

We seem to have suffered a vortex induced time lapse. :suspect:

Perhaps a fresh game is in order otherwise we might suffer a time-space continuum split as happened on 21st July 1969 when Neil Armstrong made his first steps on Chigwell north platform instead of the Moon. Thankfully they covered that one up nicely!

So to battle...Samantha... fresh horses!

Who would like to begin?

Oo okay then, me first.

I am just about to eat chicken for my tea, but seeing as there isn't a 'chicken' station i'll use one with ham in it instead.

East Ham!

I'm surprised you didn't think of cockfosters :hihi::hihi:

However I'm not going to fall into that particular trap so.....


Golders Green

Oh I'll join!

hmmmmmm

Bethnal Green

Ahhh.... I feel a pattern, and it's not flock!


Green Park

Oh I'll join!


Me too......
Nobends

With an element of panache, elegance and style i turn about face and due to security threats we miss several stops as we fly straight through stations until i appear at.....

Great Portland Street

Ahh, the home of the great white limestone edifices.

Chalk Farm

Using a great loop reversal and neatly sidestepping a Milligan trap, Tooting Bec

Gor blimey luverduck!

Morden.

Well upmarket and not a comedian in sight today.

Using a lateral Clitheroe gambit and taking into account that the moon is not new


Canning Town.

careful careful careful!


Oxford Circus :D

careful careful careful!

Oxford Circus :D

Elephant & Castle

Uxbridge.

Shepherds Bush...but I'm giving up using the Underground!! :)

Wimp :hihi:

Russel square [with no lateral diversion ! ]

Damn and double damn with chips!!

I'm in spoon

:(

Damn and double damn with chips!!

I'm in spoon

:(

It'll be ok - if I play Fenchurch Street, that should sort it out. (See page 3 of this thread, probably).

My joker is out, I'll do up my flies.


Covent Garden.

Cheers maggi :thumbsup:

lateral shift to Finchley Road, and I've played my trump.

Sorry about the smell

RIP Humph 25 April 2008.



I can only think of having a shake at Cockfosters

RIP Humph, he'll be sadly missed.

RIP Humph 25 April 2008.



I can only think of having a shake at Cockfosters

hmmmmm :huh:




Ah got it

Oxford Street

Is a move south of the river permissable? I've mislayed volume six of the rules so can't actually check.

Assuming it is a legal move, Bermondsey.

The vicar's been discussing funeral arrangements with Samantha. He's explained that he's got a lot on and might not be able to fit everything in. She's told him to get his head down and get on with it - she wants the full service.

Assuming it is a legal move, Bermondsey.

Clapham Common.