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Tango13
2,598 posts
45 months
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probably chalk said: A masterpiece in every sense  I'm even prepared to concede, after a couple of large Glenfiddichs, that despite being a station rather than an animate object, Oxford Circus station can be considered to be both alive and dead simultaneously; yet when one gets off the train we can only percieve it as being one or the other. My only hope is to successfully roll a double six which should allow me to parry your thrust... ...well, whaddya know? Double six first time! Bank You can't claim bank, I have it a couple of posts up with a variation of the Evening Standard rule but with a double six you could try Morden with an out of tune busker?
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probably chalk
346 posts
61 months
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Tango13 said: probably chalk said: A masterpiece in every sense I'm even prepared to concede, after a couple of large Glenfiddichs, that despite being a station rather than an animate object, Oxford Circus station can be considered to be both alive and dead simultaneously; yet when one gets off the train we can only percieve it as being one or the other. My only hope is to successfully roll a double six which should allow me to parry your thrust... ...well, whaddya know? Double six first time! Bank You can't claim bank, I have it a couple of posts up with a variation of the Evening Standard rule but with a double six you could try Morden with an out of tune busker? Yahtzee!
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,374 posts
85 months
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probably chalk said: Ray Luxury-Yacht said: probably chalk said: Ray Luxury-Yacht said: Colonel Mustard in the Billiard Room with the Rope - yep, nice move.
But Roding Valley on a Sunday Evening???? You must be joking! Don't you bloody bother to read the rules, you imbecile? Jesus! I'm aware, and partially in awe, of your standing in this thread RYL so I can only assume you have momentarily forgotten the weedkiller train that passes through Roding Valley at this time on a Sunday. A well executed Brooke-Taylor sidestep will get you on to this train and I'll hop off at Stratford Ah blast and dammit! Despite my long-standing and normally accurate commitment to the rules, after a six-month layoff, even I had forgotten about the recent addition of the Weedkiller Train that passes through Roding Valley at this time on a Sunday... So.....I have to concede, a Gentlemanly minor defeat to your excellent sidestep there my friend....but make no mistake, I will counter it.... So behold! You must now assimilate my brilliance at instigating a late-night 'schroedinger summary' of a 'space-time continuum' re-animation augmented to completion, with assistance from an accelerative and almost 'light bending' thackery theorum that will thus gestate the finite particle motion that will ultimately render me back into the forward position of the game by atomically assembling my earthly mass at the advantageous end result of 'Oxford Circus' via the 'Bakerloo Line.' A contrived masterpiece, that I very much doubt ANY player will have the werewithall to attempt, let alone follow, no? A masterpiece in every sense I'm even prepared to concede, after a couple of large Glenfiddichs, that despite being a station rather than an animate object, Oxford Circus station can be considered to be both alive and dead simultaneously; yet when one gets off the train we can only percieve it as being one or the other. My only hope is to successfully roll a double six which should allow me to parry your thrust... ...well, whaddya know? Double six first time! Bank Bank? Bank???? Baaannnkkkk? On a bleeding first-roll double six???? Gahhhhh!! I can't believe my bad luck! I started this new game under not only a new set of 'Thackery' rules, but also on the dawn of last Thursday, invoking the 'full moon' advantange - and despite all that, you young whipper-snappers are making mincemeat of me already? Hmmph. Maybe I'm too old for this...maybe my senile mind is no longer competitive enough? Bah. Hmmm...ok...a moment of contemplation...think...THINK GODDAMMIT...I used to be a master at this game...wait...waiiiit! Ah, of course! I know! Ha ha! Experience beats youth! Ha ha, of course! Why didn't I think of it earlier??!! Right, you damn kids, hows THIS then? Alighting at the Royal Festival Hall invoking the previously described allowance of last Thursday's full moon. Then utilising a THREE WHEELED RICKSHAW TRIKE over Hungerford bridge to the Embankment Station, with all trains running to a 'normal' service. Riding the Bakerloo Line unhindered all the way to Picadilly Circus - and alighting the carriage without let or hindrance. Emerging to street level, than using good old 'shank's pony' up Shaftesbury Avenue, culminating in my terminas at the 'Raymond Revuebar'???? Eh?? Eh??? I bet NO ONE has an answer to that tonight!!
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probably chalk
346 posts
61 months
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said: Bank? Bank???? Baaannnkkkk? On a bleeding first-roll double six???? Gahhhhh!! I can't believe my bad luck! I started this new game under not only a new set of 'Thackery' rules, but also on the dawn of last Thursday, invoking the 'full moon' advantange - and despite all that, you young whipper-snappers are making mincemeat of me already? Hmmph. Maybe I'm too old for this...maybe my senile mind is no longer competitive enough? Bah. Hmmm...ok...a moment of contemplation...think...THINK GODDAMMIT...I used to be a master at this game...wait...waiiiit! Ah, of course! I know! Ha ha! Experience beats youth! Ha ha, of course! Why didn't I think of it earlier??!! Right, you damn kids, hows THIS then? Alighting at the Royal Festival Hall invoking the previously described allowance of last Thursday's full moon. Then utilising a THREE WHEELED RICKSHAW TRIKE over Hungerford bridge to the Embankment Station, with all trains running to a 'normal' service. Riding the Bakerloo Line unhindered all the way to Picadilly Circus - and alighting the carriage without let or hindrance. Emerging to street level, than using good old 'shank's pony' up Shaftesbury Avenue, culminating in my terminas at the 'Raymond Revuebar'???? Eh?? Eh??? I bet NO ONE has an answer to that tonight!! Crivens! That certainly presents me with a three pipe problem and I just don't have the time this evening to craft a suitable response. Old Father Time has removed the bails here at chez Probably Chalk and the umpires have called time. I'm going to have to spend the night in a stabling siding at Mill Hill East and come back to this tomorrow. Well played sir.
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,374 posts
85 months
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probably chalk said: Crivens! That certainly presents me with a three pipe problem and I just don't have the time this evening to craft a suitable response. Old Father Time has removed the bails here at chez Probably Chalk and the umpires have called time. I'm going to have to spend the night in a stabling siding at Mill Hill East and come back to this tomorrow.
Well played sir. Enjoy your time at Mill Hill East *gloat* but I am also a little unsettled and concerned that you will possibly come back tomorrow morn with an unprecedented and possibly game changing masterstroke at some point within the Monday... At any rate, I will enjoy my Sunday night advance for it's no doubt limited time... Till then comrade...
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iva cosworth
6,663 posts
32 months
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Was my move to East Acton in-valid ? 
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Tango13
2,598 posts
45 months
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probably chalk said: Crivens! That certainly presents me with a three pipe problem and I just don't have the time this evening to craft a suitable response. Old Father Time has removed the bails here at chez Probably Chalk and the umpires have called time. I'm going to have to spend the night in a stabling siding at Mill Hill East and come back to this tomorrow.
Well played sir. I think we can get him on the three wheeled ricksaw. I'll have to check as there is a ruling on it somewhere when a team used a variation during qualifying for a tournament. Something to do with the number of sugars in a mug of tea staining a coaster iirc but as I said I'll have to check.
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kiteless
6,281 posts
73 months
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One clearly does not "just walk into Mornington Crescent".
As such, and hailing from Middle, I will proffer the Darby Opening which - as we all know - lands immediately at Edgware Road, following which (employing the Bessemer Cross Theory 1892 (ii)) will permit quick and painless access to Elephant & Castle.
Options are surveyed.
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DickyC
9,559 posts
67 months
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Hmmm. Singing Burlington Bertie loudly near Hyde Park Corner has got me precisely nowhere.
You live and learn.
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troc
1,174 posts
44 months
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iva cosworth said: Was my move to East Acton in-valid ? I have a horrid feeling we have created a problem similar to that experienced in the 2004 European finals when Sweden and Georgia both rolled a 7 and submitted their moves under the Fosby-Smythe exception (last used in 1963 when England and Nepal ended up in an odd three-way split with Canada that resulted in the Great Schism of 1964). It's partly my fault - I forgot we'd starred on a Thursday. Everyone knows flights run on time on Thursday's. Other than that, I thought your move was genius. Invoking the electronic items addendum from last year's European championships was terribly clever and I'm not sure anyone really know what to do about it. Eventually we will all end up at the same place, it's inevitable from this position according to my calculations. Thus I move from East Acton to Dalston Kingsland. I can justify this for four reasons. 1. It's the first Monday after a Sunday in March when both were sunny (well, here in holland, using local weather rules in accepted under the amendments to Article 12.4(a)(II) of the '91 rules) 2. Diagonals are active. 3. It realigns the divergent moves resulting from my airport restart 4. It's (in my humble opinion) a bloody clever move from which there is no easy way out.
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Rouleur
4,417 posts
58 months
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Harry Golder has just wrung off having pleaded, nay begged, me to alight the MC train at his Green in order to collect him as his Volvo estate has conked out again and he simply must be on time for work this morning.
Therefore I play a Special Request Stop 4.4.6 interdiction.
Golders Green
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The Jolly Todger
1,155 posts
49 months
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Having followed this for some time I think the time has come to lay down a diagonal counter-rabbit making use of the eastern extension of the cycle-hire scheme (assuming we're allowing the Rockford-Lhotka variation) to find my way out to Hoxton.
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probably chalk
346 posts
61 months
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My work has kept me from my wax tablet this morning but I feel a breakthrough is at hand and I must communicate the news!! I have been engrossed in my laboratory for months where I have been attempting to use recombinant DNA techniques to fuse Cockfosters, Belsize Park and Mile End in order to create the ultimate station.
My breakthrough is that I have finally discovered how to use ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen without creating a virus so lethal that the subject ends up dead before it has even left the table!!
I haven't yet settled on a name for my mighty creation however....
I see that a side effect of my distraction is that I have unwittingly employed the Carroll Variation whereby everyone else does the hard work for me and we are thus sprung from RLY's vexatious trap.
So...
Vauxhall
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iva cosworth
6,663 posts
32 months
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Using the Mayor of Londons Fuzzy Logic i move down to Wimbledon Chase. 
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Madness60
170 posts
53 months
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probably chalk said: My work has kept me from my wax tablet this morning but I feel a breakthrough is at hand and I must communicate the news!! I have been engrossed in my laboratory for months where I have been attempting to use recombinant DNA techniques to fuse Cockfosters, Belsize Park and Mile End in order to create the ultimate station.
My breakthrough is that I have finally discovered how to use ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen without creating a virus so lethal that the subject ends up dead before it has even left the table!!
I haven't yet settled on a name for my mighty creation however....
I see that a side effect of my distraction is that I have unwittingly employed the Carroll Variation whereby everyone else does the hard work for and we are thus sprung from RYL's vexatious trap.
So...
Vauxhall
Hmm I see this move as a variation of the Evil Scientist Opening last used in the Upper Balkan Under 12 Girls Shield Final in 08. Having, under Ruling 13.4.5.a.3a.6.99, I have called a short pause to contemplate my shiny iphone app and it recommends East Finchley but that is surely a vulgar move so I refuse to bow down to the Steve Jobs inspired hagiography and instead flee to worship in Temple
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The Jolly Todger
1,155 posts
49 months
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Madness60 said: Hmm I see this move as a variation of the Evil Scientist Opening last used in the Upper Balkan Under 12 Girls Shield Final in 08.
Having, under Ruling 13.4.5.a.3a.6.99, I have called a short pause to contemplate my shiny iphone app and it recommends East Finchley but that is surely a vulgar move so I refuse to bow down to the Steve Jobs inspired hagiography and instead flee to worship in
Temple I believe that is backing up.
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Madness60
170 posts
53 months
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Only on a Thursday and even then only after lunch
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The Jolly Todger
1,155 posts
49 months
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Very well.
Are mainline stations wild?
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probably chalk
346 posts
61 months
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The Jolly Todger said: Very well.
Are mainline stations wild? Kings Cross was livid on Saturday evening.
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Madness60
170 posts
53 months
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Right after some bowing and scraping in Temple I saw the light pierce the stained glass window and lo it did illuminate the barely readable but fabled written history of the infamous Churchill Stalin Roosevelt Yalta crescent game of 1943 and inspired by that I raise 2 fingers in a V and take us to
Victoria
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