THE Mornington Crescent Thread

[HA51EMT]

You Sir are a bounder and a cad!
You leave me no option than to apply the Brown-Simpson prerogative.
Sarf ov tha rivah.

Tooting Broadway.

[The Jolly Todger]

Remaining above ground to avoid the potential Flood's Folly I'm going to move to the relative safety of Throgmorton Street.

[angry jock]

The Jolly Todger said:

Remaining above ground to avoid the potential Flood's Folly I'm going to move to the relative safety of Throgmorton Street.

I say JT splendid move. Puts me in mind of the old days playing the long forgotten Stenhousemuir edict when it was perfectly acceptable to play a thrumper and a reverse shunt on a Friday. Except for Good Friday but we all knows what happens when you play a thrumper then!

Let's see. Can someone tell me if we are still playing in accordance to the Moriarity Variations please? If so Bond Street. If not I shall remove my hat and sit on it, according to the rule that shall never be mentioned again.

[The Jolly Todger]

Many thanks for the appreciation of my play. It certainly took some thinking about and I'm glad you spotted the subtleties of it.

With regard to the Moriarity Variations, I believe that they are in play until midnight tonight so you've made it with hours to spare. Bond Street it is.

[probably chalk]

It was about time I caught a break.
The platforms at Bond Street are large enough to deploy Planck's Oscillator. The wormhole thus opened takes me to...
Hatton Cross. Hatton Cross three weeks ago admittedly but Hatton Cross all the same.

[iva cosworth]

I am invoking the Lord Wellington 2nd Saturday ruling 20 minutes too early.

Upminster....

[Gizmoish]

Upminster, on a wet Friday night.

>audience shudders<

Belsize Park.


Incidentally I was teaching my trainee how to play the game earlier. Poor fellow played Chalk Farm while verticals were out of bounds. How we laughed!

[heppers75]

As it it is ten to midnight on a mid October Friday I am going to lay out a fools extremis gambit....

New Cross....

I shall be crucified I know...

[marshalla]

In a sellers, market such as this, we need to open up the gateway to new horizons.

Bal-Ham.

[Fer]

A valiant effort, but given that Putney is a b**ch this time of the year, and with the leaves on the line, I was left with a bi-directional Eigenvector of either Barnes or Mortlake, but think, given the current state of play with Gibraltar there is only one safe choice - Regents Park.

[Lunja]

Well I thought that would leave a clear run at MC, but the Smythe-Fotherington maneuver instigated on page 63 of course bans reverse diagonals on opposite Saturdays. Quite the conundrum...

Instead, I'll play a strategic knip avoidance move, shunt a carriage into the sidings and speed off towards Covent Garden, remembering of course to mind the gap.

[Pupp]

So that invokes the Piccadilly baggage-handling strategy, which must mean Heathrow Terminal 5...

[drivin_me_nuts]

Well, at T5, the only way forwards is a trip to South Kensington. We need cultural nourishment by way of the Museums.

[DickyC]

Farringdon.

Damn it. Another day of self loathing.

[Vocal Minority]

Reverse loop to Camden Town.

Stick that in your ethnic food stall and smoke it

[Fer]

Vocal Minority said:

Reverse loop to Camden Town.

Stick that in your ethnic food stall and smoke it

Not on a Sunday, the crowds will be ridiculous. I refer you back to Chalk Farm, and can walk from there.

[probably chalk]

Having just arrived home from Brands Hatch, I see no alternative but to play Mudchute.

[angry jock]

probably chalk said:

Having just arrived home from Brands Hatch, I see no alternative but to play Mudchute.

Such a tricky move. I agree though that your options were somewhat limited.

I wish to play a North West Parallax shunt as developed by the late, great Tufty Soames.

Caledonian Road.

[Trophybloo]

How can close proximity to man-eating big cats ever be considered 'safe' - go and lie down for a while and I'll scapa dahn the frog past the German all the way to Clapham North

[DickyC]

Drove to Camden without thinking. Parked and walked to the Koko Club, the former Camden Palace, to see Wilko Johnson in concert. Surprised to pass Mornington Crescent Station. Oh, dear. Walked back to car. Discover had inadvertently parked in Mornington Crescent.

Realise had arrived at Mornington Crescent by accident



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