THE Mornington Crescent Thread

[Cunning Punt]

Martin4x4 said:

if [HS2] goes ahead it looks set to completely change the character of the game

We can live in hope.



I seem to recall that contingency plans for HS2-type vector interconnections were first mooted during Opium Break at the 1907 Clacton-on-Sea/Planetwide Cup Championship Tournament. They can likely be found in one of the more unsimplified regulation appendices (probably not the Rules Ancient and Modern oft-vaunted by our dear and ever-erudite marshalla, but possibly in Weathered or Muted).

Moving onward (or perhaps, backward): Harrow & Wealdstone

[marshalla]

Must we have that debate again ? The referendum concluded with a definitive 90% in favour of abstention.

St. James' Park and bring your own batteries for the sign.

[Vocal Minority]

I wouldn't get too worried about HS2. The speed that the smoke filled room of shadowy figures that is the FICd'M (Federacion Internationale Crecent de Mornington) move at it will be 2022 before they think to petition against it anyway. The last thing we need is a Select Committee riding roughshod over Gerrunds 1965 treatise and variations of the Modern and Ancient rules....

on which note, Ealing Broadway

[Vocal Minority]

I wouldn't get too worried about HS2. The speed that the smoke filled room of shadowy figures that is the FICd'M (Federacion Internationale Crecent de Mornington) move at it will be 2022 before they think to petition against it anyway. The last thing we need is a Select Committee riding roughshod over Gerrunds 1965 treatise and variations of the Modern and Ancient rules....

on which note, Ealing Broadway

[marshalla]

Did you throw a double ?

Ho hum - the borogroves are distinctly mimsy today so I think it's time gyre and gimble to Cutty Sark. (the sun is over the yard arm isn't it ? )

[DickyC]

The sun is always over the yard arm somewhere.

Bow Road.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

In which case, I shall run all the way to Whitechapel.

[DickyC]

Holy mackerel! The girl's executing a double envelopment!

Monument.


(I'll scoot up to the top and see if the refreshment bar is open. Lovely view. Tea and a rum baba? Don't mind if I do.)

[marshalla]

Arnos Grove

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Arnos Grove again?


Hmmmm.


Bank!

[Vocal Minority]

This isn't the weakest link.

Paddington

[ManFromDelmonte]

Some interesting shunt options being played here:

Wimbledon (Village)

[marshalla]

I'm going to play my Joker. So, double points on a triple word score.


and what do points make ?



Chalfont and Latimer.

[Mr.Jimbo]

marshalla said:

and what do points make ?

Thats right! A series of interlinked levers and switches enacted to move a switchable rail controlling the direction of railway traffic.

I like it when Stephen Fry is in the chair

[marshalla]

Richmond.

According to Stovold's definitive edition, the next player needs to throw a double six before playing their joker to avoid Fairlop.

[probably chalk]

I've always bought my clothes in C&A and am consequently exempt from that particular regulation.

Waterloo

[vournikas]

marshalla said:

I'm going to play my Joker. So, double points on a triple word score.


and what do points make ?



Chalfont and Latimer.

As an impartial observer, it should be obvious that a Joker play on C & L is invalid as contemplated by Eyre 6.1.3 (b) 1982. The initial Chalfont Joker play was considered - initially - as a clever reverse pincer, but Eyre showed that the move was irretrievably blunted by the little known Shape Code 11.

As you were.

[ManFromDelmonte]

Argyll Street

[phugleigh]

ManFromDelmonte said:

Argyll Street

Presented with all that hustle & bustle, It initially appeared to me only the remnants of two natural options were left open:

i - the Llanelli Gambit,
ii - the Cornish (Truro) Defence

Please forgive me for playing this one:

Roding Valley

[WinstonWolf]

A lone Friday back at work after the holidays? Double points boys and girls, fill your boots