This month marks the 105th anniversary of the opening of Mornington Crescent tube station. To celebrate this, how about partaking in a game of Mornington Crescent using the normal rules but with the Argyle Street Parabola Variation and all Main Stations are wild
So I am starting with Canary Wharf
(For those unfamiliar with the game the Argyle street parabola variation allows for a maximum of two nudges but only if the run of play is with the poke holder)
Are we allowing the DC lines variation?
If so I'll raise you Carpenders Park.
Anyone else not got a clue what this is all about?
Quote from: edwin_m on June 25, 2012, 10:55:01 PM
Are we allowing the DC lines variation?
If so I'll raise you Carpenders Park.
That's savage
Goodge Street
Quote from: Trainfish on June 25, 2012, 11:01:24 PM
Anyone else not got a clue what this is all about?
Ditto ???
:Carriage:
Russell Square
Christie done it.
Quote from: Trainfish on June 25, 2012, 11:01:24 PM
Anyone else not got a clue what this is all about?
It's an age thing!!
Gotcha, Wembley Central!
I say old chap, that's taking it a bit too far for me. I should jolly well have to Piccadilly Circus.
Quote from: scotsoft on June 25, 2012, 11:25:03 PM
Quote from: OwL729 on June 25, 2012, 11:16:53 PM
Quote from: Trainfish on June 25, 2012, 11:01:24 PM
Anyone else not got a clue what this is all about?
Ditto ???
Ditto ??? +1
http://bit.ly/MwtOhM (http://bit.ly/MwtOhM)
COCKFOSTERS - ha now you are in nip and I have cut off the diagonal!!
Que ??? I is discombobulated!
Quote from: elmo on June 26, 2012, 04:17:03 AM
COCKFOSTERS - ha now you are in nip and I have cut off the diagonal!!
Great move Elmo, but all main stations are wild so I have to go with PADDINGTON :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
P.S. this is not an age thing as the game is regularly played today. However, the game has been played in Tudor times with each move having to be officially sanctioned by the king who acted as umpire. Only a short extract from the original rule parchment survives:
"If ye wilt come unto Mornington Crefent
Stray not within the bounds of the mighty Thames.
Nor can Tyburne be reached without sacrifice of
Ruffels Square, 'male chicken' (changed by forum) Fofters, or Feven Fifters."
(reference isihac.co.uk)
Paddington
And so invoking Hooper's mainline variation I now get an extra go, hence...
Mile End
A clever, clever move. I can see you were trying to lull me into Tower Hill (which would have put me in Spoon) but I can see a way out of this predicament
ALL SAINTS
WTF ??? ??? ???
Lets pretend I do know whats going on and throw in
Hatch End
Wow, talk about beginner's luck.
I was tempted to sweep SotR but sportingly instead:
Hounslow Central
Parsons Green
Main Line stations are wild so it off to
ST PANCRAS
(where there are reports that the French variant, Mornington Croissant, is gaining in popularity because of the Eurostar)
Quote from: Pendy on June 26, 2012, 08:52:14 AM
Main Line stations are wild so it off to
ST PANCRAS
(where there are reports that the French variant, Mornington Croissant, is gaining in popularity because of the Eurostar)
:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
However that would need them to have a sense of humour !
This will keep you occupied for a while 8)
Chorley Wood
(ob puzzle: how to get from St Pancras to Kings Cross by train)
St. Pancras and then Chorley Wood? I may be old-fashioned, but the only option I can see is Elm Park.
Quote from: scotsoft on June 25, 2012, 11:25:03 PM
Quote from: OwL729 on June 25, 2012, 11:16:53 PM
Quote from: Trainfish on June 25, 2012, 11:01:24 PM
Anyone else not got a clue what this is all about?
Ditto ???
Ditto ??? +1
If you look at the link posted by Mustermark on the previous page it confirms all suspicions - that it's a random naming of stations with no rules, logic or sense.
Can't see the point meself but it gets some people's post-count up ::)
Paul
I remember hearing it on the radio but never could fathom it.
Superb panel though, and there is a plaque at Mornington Crescent station in memory of the late, great Willie Rushton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game))
Willie is dead? I never knew that :( I may have to have a beer in his memory.
Pendy you have obviously played this before. Loved Mornington Croissant as a concept!
I must admit to never having had anyone to play it with before.
So after Elm Park... which coincidentally was also the name of the old Reading FC football ground where i saw Reading play Wigan in the first year that Wigan got into the fourth division of the league.
I am going to try a modern move using an opposing triangulation algorithm and play Lancaster Gate.
There is surely no point in any game other than the fun you can have. A bit like model railways really.
That should Turnham Green !
;D :thumbsup:
Kew Gardens
You are living dangerously there MM, lucky for you that rule 17 has been replaced by rule 17a otherwise you would be in nid as well.
Parsons Green has already been declared so this forces me onto the Great Western Axis with
Heathrow Terminal 5
(Only played MC once before MM, noted the significance of your Elm Park move which came after my All Saints move)
Just checking my Stovold regarding rule 17a. In the mean time I will move to Edgeware Road. Admittedly a poor move but this should free the game up by opening the hind quarters.
A-ha! From Edgeware Rd, there can only be one move this week - Wimbledon!
That's you stumped until the rain stops... (unless you can afford the strawberries)
Sorry, I haven't a clue what the rules are, :P, so I'm off to Clapham Junction to watch the trains! ;D
Kensington Olympia
White City
Easy one from there - Blackhorse Road...
Quote from: elmo on June 26, 2012, 01:12:54 PM
. . . by opening the hind quarters.
I'm trying to avoid going anything near the hind quarters, so playing safe with
Pudding Mill Lane
And where do you get the pudding from other than:
Baker Street...
Take the pudding back to your Swiss Cottage?
You may be happy in your Swiss Cottage, but I'd prefer a
Mansion House...
worried about this move,,,
GREEN PARK...
I love that line...
'What's the best way to Cockfosters?'
serve it warm mate.......
A Mansion is too small, I'd prefer a Crystal Palace :P
But as we're in the park, lets go to Finsbury Park :)
Unless we're stuck with warm beer...
Cunning...
All I can do from there is try Pimlico and hope my Passport is still valid, otherwise rule 666b clause ii means we're stuck with Zone One stations for the next three moves.
temple
Upminster...
Need to be careful here, Moogle has laid a trap . . .
However I can huff and take the East Indian tangent to
Cyprus
can someone adjudicate on upminster to cyprus please? my understanding is that it would leave the front four coaches in spoon as shunting hasn't been unlocked. temple- upminster- cyprus implies slippage on the circle line, which of course reverses the paddington triangle.
I thought that was only possible playing the Farish progression- because of the gradients
You have overlooked that I cunningly played All Saints earlier in the game which allows me to make one emergency move 'from the heavens'
So I get an extra turn and head back to
Angel
Too Easy. From Angels to Devils -
BANK
Yes, but Angel allowed me to collect another 'from the heavens' token and I am collecting my third token at
St Pauls
something tells me that Pendy is used to getting her own way :P
and so in the spirit of that, lets have a day trip to
st clements
To which the citrus bells (recently disused stations) exemption allows me to play:
Shoreditch
Well if you're gonig to use dirty tactics like that try Ongar.
Get out of that without an Oyster Card...
Clever move as Shoreditch would make Bow Road too easy. But as we already moved to Ongar perhaps i will try Epping
Quote from: Mustermark on June 26, 2012, 03:13:39 PM
Clever move as Shoreditch would make Bow Road too easy. But as we already moved to Ongar perhaps i will try Epping
Not sure that's a legal move - the heritage line only runs weekends doesn't it ?
I think you got me there. Was trying not to use an Oyster card. I will have to take the forfeit amd then move that we are all...
Barking.
takes a quick taxi to Made of Ale...
oops soz.. got carried away with 'male chicken' (changed by forum) Fosters....
Maida Vale...
(gin and) Limehouse
I can only quote:
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
:smiley-laughing:
Sorry Minzapint, Barking has already been played!
"Would you like more tea?" asked the Hatter.
"But i havent had any tea yet so how can i have more?" asked Alice.
"Well," replied the Hatter, "you can't very well have less".
With Bank already very cunningly played...
Quote from: PLD on June 26, 2012, 02:52:36 PM
Too Easy. From Angels to Devils -
BANK
I believe rule 14 is in play and without using the reversing loop at Kennington i will play Old Street
Coincidentally, Old Street is (was?) the location of my favourite Banksy (the Grin Reaper). Is he a devil or an angel???
From Old Street, the obvious move is of course New Cross Gate...
I am going nuclear and invoking the little known 'Lyttleton convention' only available to Scottish players resident in the Capital (of Scotland that is!) and playing a wildcard:-
Morningside Park
Ha!
Charing Cross
(thats one way back - the station that exists in two places at once...)
Aha
Mornington . . .
No, you are ok. I was forgetting that Special Lavatorial Circumstances apply whenever a toilet is closed and a movement can only be made through the back passages by a southerly route.
Waterloo.
I call your Waterloo and raise you Mudchute
Damn, damn, damn. I was holding a move to Mudchute back in case someone trumped.
I'll just have to take the long and winding road to
Abbey Road
But Pendy, i think we are now in thripp. A lateral move would have been better. I have consulted Stovold's Almanac (2002 edition, of course) and the only option i can see from here is...
Hyde Park Corner
Good blocking move...
I'll have to play the 'foreign tourist' excuse and make the short hop to Picadilly Circus but that does mean the next move can't be another Picadilly line station...
And because Piccadilly Circus has been played once already, the next move cannot also be on the Bakerloo Line.
Unless you accept the Queen's Gambit and move to Green Park
A three line interchange so many (wrong) options...
Best play safe with Victoria. (nice girl, oh hang on that's the other type of modelling she does isn't it...)
If, as I assume because no-one has mentioned it, we are NOT playing Old Etonian rules, the Brooke–Taylor advance would suggest that it would not be too rude to Dollis Hill at this point in the game.
No, we are not playing Old Etonian rules as I'm not wearing a floral waistcoat.
I'm going to try a bold move that everyone in the room has avoided
Elephant
Could be a foolish move - time will tell
yeh...
she don't do N gauge...
(cheaply)....
can i use the Northern line and play my joker???
Quote from: Pendy on June 26, 2012, 08:00:11 PM
No, we are not playing Old Etonian rules as I'm not wearing a floral waistcoat.
I'm going to try a bold move that everyone in the room has avoided
Elephant
Could be a foolish move - time will tell
:smiley-laughing:
You are too good at this. But i think you could regret that last move. If it wasn't closed, I would play Blackfriars. But instead i think we will head for Cutty Sark.
Anyone know how the Cutty Sark restoration is going after that fire a few years ago?
And yes, fisherman, a joker is always welcome to cheer up the misery line!
can I use the DLR to check ????
or the new cable car over the Thames ??
DLR moves are gaining in popularity and quite a few have been made in this game.
There is also the Remote Control version of Mornington Crescent which is based completely on the DLR. and so called because the DLR trains have no driver.
You can, I am sure, use either (especially as we are not using Old Newtonian Rules). But there are to be no jokers played on the cable car... We don't want the game to become uncivilized.
Quote from: Mustermark on June 26, 2012, 08:26:33 PM
Anyone know how the Cutty Sark restoration is going after that fire a few years ago?
It's all done and open 8)
(http://www.sprintexnet.co.uk/Images/DSCI1364.JPG)
Visited a fortnight ago, she looks magnificent fully restored yet they've still retained a lot of the old rotten metal inside so you can see what state it was in, albeit with lots of new strengthening added ;)
Best bit is she's now suspended above the dry dock so you can walk underneath and see the entire brass-panelled underside. The cafe is down there too so you can sit having a cup of tea whilst looking up at the ship and its surrounding blue glass "sea" canopy :thumbsup:
(http://www.sprintexnet.co.uk/Images/DSCI1386.JPG)
Paul
Quote from: Sprintex on June 26, 2012, 09:31:44 PM
Quote from: Mustermark on June 26, 2012, 08:26:33 PM
Anyone know how the Cutty Sark restoration is going after that fire a few years ago?
It's all done and open 8)
(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sprintexnet/Images/DSCI1364.JPG)
Visited a fortnight ago, she looks magnificent fully restored yet they've still retained a lot of the old rotten metal inside so you can see what state it was in, albeit with lots of new strengthening added ;)
Best bit is she's now suspended above the dry dock so you can walk underneath and see the entire brass-panelled underside. The cafe is down there too so you can sit having a cup of tea whilst looking up at the ship and its surrounding blue glass "sea" canopy :thumbsup:
(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sprintexnet/Images/DSCI1386.JPG)
Paul
so thats where all the gold went when they sold it off
oh and i'm going to call an appel so everyone back to their starting positions please
Cool pics, thanks Paul. Lovely to see her restored. The cafe looks magnificent.
So any advance on Cutty Sark in the game? Or did i stump eveyone?
Quote from: Mustermark on June 26, 2012, 09:39:10 PM
Cool pics, thanks Paul. Lovely to see her restored. The cafe looks magnificent.
So any advance on Cutty Sark in the game? Or did i stump eveyone?
already dealt with in my last post
So i see, this mobile app doesnt seem to tell me when someone has posted in the meantime.
thats quite cool actually- blind mornington crescent- where you dont know what got declared the go before yours would be excellent
As main line stations are wild how about Fenchurch Street!
Ray
The night is yet young and you shall not have a Monopoly on the wild card. Having barely missed being jailed and failing to pick up the customary 200 sovs for services rendered and ultimately just starting a Willie Rushton & Hornby PWM ............
Mary-le-Bone
(Please note - classic M. Croissant nomenclature. I was taught by an amatuer and misguided by a white faced mime.)
Very clever griffo. A thinly disguised Fool's Mate opening with all that talk of Monopoly! I go for another mainline Monopoly station and it's all over in two more moves!
But i saw it coming, so, without further ado, i shall divert us to Caledonian Road.
(I am self-taught as i am sure you can tell, but currently learning much from Pendy. She is sharp, so watch out for an innocent-looking manoeuvre).
Be careful everyone, a lot of the Mainline Station wildcards have already been used.
I'm pleased you went for Caledonian Road because I have been awaiting the opportunity to enter the 'Sweet FA' loop with
Arsenal
Whilst on the loop, if a player spots a foul move they must declare 'I've seen penalties given for worse' or 'that's a clear red card' as required. Similarly, if a player is accused of making a foul move they are entitled to say 'didn't see it' or 'it was a dive' as required. Please note that unlike the Wimbledon tangent, Hawk-Eye technology is not in use.
Too Easy: off the trains and onto an open top tour bus to celebrate Promotion at West Ham calling at Upton Park on the way...
(PS mr referee the brown envelope is in the usual place... ;) )
"that's a clear Red card" Double moves on the Sweet FA loop are not permitted unless it is raining and you are cowering under an umbrella
So the West Ham move is relegated, so we move on to the upwardly mobile
All Saints
That leaves me no alternative but Archway.
Ray
Sooo close to MC... but the next train is on the wrong branch of the Northern Line so let's try Oval (bet that's stumped some on you...)
As the replies are slow try Necropolis station, assuming the 1941 rules are still applied, otherwise it is a dead move.
That's a clear red card! Mr Beck would be spinning in his grave.
As such i am leaning towards one of the earlier stations on Mr Beck's original that also incorporates a famous graveyard ...
St Paul's
Hmm Haven't we already been to St Paul's? No-one told me they had a BBC token! Never mind you've used it now so the next three moves must also be repeats... I'll head back to St Pancras
Quote from: PLD on June 27, 2012, 01:14:36 PM
Hmm Haven't we already been to St Paul's? No-one told me they had a BBC token! Never mind you've used it now so the next three moves must also be repeats... I'll head back to St Pancras
and hop on Eurostar to . . .
Gare du Nord
(la règle 124.21 s'applique, les stations principales sont des jokers et le prochain mouvement doit être dans le métro parisien)
Zut alors. C'est une surprise, n'est pas. J'ai penser que le prochain mouvement doit etre Lille!
Alors, dans le metro parisienne... Chemin Vert
Which, meaning Green Train may give us a Southern Railway connection if anyone has the tunnel card.
Invalides
Playing the Escargot's Invalides invalidation card invalidates all French moves except where the poke holder has validated the move by invalidating the last valid move before the invalidation took place.
So I think the next move will get us back to Blighty . . .
In that case, I shall try the Vectis Deviation and suggest Ryde Pier (well it is served by former London Underground Stock...)
Aha. A ticket to Ryde. But as we already visited Abbey Rd and i used my only BBC token to Get Back to St Paul's, i shall Beatle us off to Liverpool St.
That's another mainline wild card used up, MM.
Lets open up the diagonals again with
Arnos Grove
Keeping to Charles Holden's architecture in the Streamline Moderne manner how about Southgate. Only one stop North on the Piccadilly line, which should invoke the 1930s Stopping Train parabola. Get out of that one with only a 1d coin and no oyster card.
Before the demise of the East London Line, the Shadwell Paradox would easily have countered the attempted perpendicular loop but I suppose I shall now have to go with WHITECHAPEL.
Great move Jellicoe,
Penge West
You Devious so-and-so...
I see you're trying the overground trap.
Simplest escape is to back flip from P-W to W-P so Wimbledon Park it is...
I told you she is a tricksy one!
Wimbledon Park is a shrewd move. So from a single line in Zone 3 to a 3-line intersection in Zone 1, and with reported Good Service on all lines at this time, it will have to be Green Park (With Jubilee-line connotations acknowledged and a Queen's Diamond paradox invoked).
I would like to try the Littleton (cornet) variation and go to the "Arabfly dangle way"
Ray
Which doesn't fly until midday tomorrow, so it is imperative that we know at which end we are stranded? Greenwich or Royal Docks?
Quote from: Mustermark on June 27, 2012, 04:41:51 PM
I told you she is a tricksy one!
Look who's talking! Your Green Park move was decidedly underhand.
I'm sorry I haven't a clue where to go from 'Arabfly dangle way' so I'm going to have to flip a coin and go for
Greenwich (which does have the safety of the Meridian)
That's nice... keeping the Jubilee invokation alive there! I had an owful feeling you were going to go DLR on us again!
From North Greewich with its Arabfly and O2 connection, I would like to propose flight capability with a different atomic connection and move us to
Goldhawk Rd
Yes - you have found my Achilles Heel, I do like the DLR especially if you can get a seat at the front of the trains where the driver would be.
Imperial Wharf
Predictable...
Your Docklands Dodge is easily countered by a Tramlink Twist - which takes us to West Croydon.
(and don't forget thats on a one way loop when selecting your next move...)
I too loved the front seat on a DLR so you could see out and pretend you were driving. Just like the old DMUs.
So, now we have had a DLR followed by an Overground i believe i can go to a particular intersection of the two lines and invoke the Shadwell Exclusion Principle. So the next two stations must be underground intersections (ref Stepney and Bascule, Morn. Cr. Locata Acta, 1954 Vol XVI p1389-1421, Elsevier, Ed. Stovold).
From the same volume, here are a couple of challenges set by Stovold in the Preface...
1. Which station has the largest number of lines intersecting?
2. What is the shortest distance that could be walked that would otherwise necessitate the greatest number of lines to be travelled to achieve the same journey by underground train?
It should be noted that Stovold gave no answers in the epilogue. Rather he imagined the system as an ever-changing beast capable of evolving and making the answers of the time obsolete.
Tricky questions that will need some research
Embankment
Hmmm.......
I shall invoke the Heisenburg Uncertainty principle.......
and go to Holborn......
or
Marble Arch...
Wow, what a move or not a move or maybe to be move . . .
Using the St Pauli's exclusion principle, which states that no two stations in a single move can have the same four interchanges,
Marble Arch
is the safer bet, as it has no interchanges
Based on the Yorkshire rules, adopting the Cryer gambit, I declare...
Turnham Green,
which it does and put you in Nidd....
Ouch - that hurt!
Well if you're going to get nasty, I'll invoke the web-foot limitation clause and nominate London Bridge.
That means you cant cross the river for the next two moves which should leave you up the proverbial creek...
sadistic!!!
I better go and Clapham.....
Common as they are...
Quote from: PLD on June 28, 2012, 10:39:27 AM
Well if you're going to get nasty, I'll invoke the web-foot limitation clause and nominate London Bridge.
That means you cant cross the river for the next two moves which should leave you up the proverbial creek...
That's another mainline station wildcard used up! We've go to be careful now
Staying south of the river for this move too...
And hoping that New Cross Gate doesn't creek!
I'll lend you some oil for the hinges, before we escape north of the ditch to do the same at Notting Hill Gate...
(Bonus points for film titles in the next 2 moves...)
Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! New Cross Gate is no longer part of the Tube network so by the invocation of the Brooke-Taylor Protocols, I declare that Mustermark and PLD cannot rejoin the game until after the Olympics.
Quote from: Jellicoe on June 28, 2012, 03:22:10 PM
Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! New Cross Gate is no longer part of the Tube network so by the invocation of the Brooke-Taylor Protocols, I declare that Mustermark and PLD cannot rejoin the game until after the Olympics.
Not so, If you go back read the original invitation to join the game (it's taped to the back of a filing cabinet in the basement of 55 Broadway) you'll find we are playing to the 2005 Livingstone Expanded geographic limits, therefore anywhere you can get to with an Oyster Card is valid provided it doesn't involve reversing a bendy-bus...
So we are still loitering at Notting Hill Gate...
N spiration.....
if I apply ohms law.....
I can go straight to...
M.........
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Battersea dogs!!!!
Quote from: Jellicoe on June 28, 2012, 03:22:10 PM
Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! New Cross Gate is no longer part of the Tube network so by the invocation of the Brooke-Taylor Protocols, I declare that Mustermark and PLD cannot rejoin the game until after the Olympics.
:smiley-laughing: :evil:
It was my belief that New Cross Gate was now part of the Overground system, and as such fair game, so to speak.
The East London Line closed on 22 December 2007 and reopened on 27 April 2010 as part of the new London Overground system. The service was also closed between 1995 and 1998 due to repair work on the tunnel under the River Thames.
The Brooke-Taylor protocols would be very harsh under the circumstances, and the ban unttil after the Olympics doubly so as no one even mentioned Stratford East. :o
Doubly harsh on PLD too as it was my faux pas, he merely offered to oil the gate! I shall however take a forfeit and a ban on playing the game until after i have had a cup of tea. :P
Furthermore, I would argue that the 2005 Livingstone expanded geographic limits is not actually required here, though of course i am more than happy to have that in play.
The game is getting intense, and i should warn you when i get back after my tea i will be taking no prisoners... I am having English Breakfast with TWO teabags and THREE sugars! :thumbsup:
I've recently received a stack of letters from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales
Here's one as an example
"Dear Panda,
Charles Beauchamp-Mumblethrop, being the Chair of the South Crotchly Ways and Means committee, wishes to make it clear that he knows nothing about something being 'taped to the back of a filing cabinet'. An analysis of eighteen years of Council debates has shown that this fine upstanding gentleman never once used that phrase in the context implied.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis (North Wales)
P.S. I will, of course, pay for the postage and packing if you were to send me what is taped to the filing cabinet"
how many sausages >>???
I am back from having my tea, and as teatime is over and i am back in the crease...
Oval
Most definitely part of the Underground system!!!
Mrs Trellis is an unreliable gossip and professional troublemaker. Dr Beauchamp-Mumblethrop, as a fine upstanding member of the community, would of course deny knowledge of anything taped to that filing cabinet to someone as untrustworthy as Mrs Trellis. Deny everything, Baldrick.
Oh dear, Oval has already been declared so its straight back to the Pavillion for you, young man - that's the trouble when you have one square leg and a silly point.
By using the Duckworth-Clueless perpendicular, I can take a long hop to
St Johns Wood
Quote from: Pendy on June 28, 2012, 05:39:01 PM
Oh dear, Oval has already been declared so its straight back to the Pavillion for you, young man - that's the trouble when you have one square leg and a silly point.
Maybe just one teabag next time then.
hope you suitably dressed !!!
otherwise you will jump to a less well heeled station!
I am attired in the traditional London Bus red Seersucker jacket, Jermyn St shirt, with a pair of hyperbolic geometric pants and of course turquoise stilettoes.
What else would one wear in a Pavillion? And yes, the shoes are very well heeled, Sir.
So I think it is time, attired appropriately for a bilateral move, to move to Bond St.
Be careful for the next move is the 100th in the game and is pivotal. Only stations of 100 years old or more!
Stovold's teaser #1. I find Kings Cross to have six interconnecting lines and I believe this to be the most on the system. Any advance on 6?
thinks his waders may be a tad....
off...
(fer London)
Waders are welcome in the more liberal parts of Soho. Possibly de rigeur, in fact!
Quote from: Mustermark on June 28, 2012, 08:10:53 PM
I am attired in the traditional London Bus red Seersucker jacket, Jermyn St shirt, with a pair of hyperbolic geometric pants and of course turquoise stilettoes.
For any non-players still reading this thread, were you by any chance at the Wigan Show last December :o
Quote from: newportnobby on June 28, 2012, 08:35:07 PM
Quote from: Mustermark on June 28, 2012, 08:10:53 PM
I am attired in the traditional London Bus red Seersucker jacket, Jermyn St shirt, with a pair of hyperbolic geometric pants and of course turquoise stilettoes.
For any non-players still reading this thread, were you by any chance at the Wigan Show last December :o
:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
mick will you please give warnings if you are going to post a reply like that as i've got coffee everywhere on the screen, keyboard all over my fags and up my nose :smiley-laughing:
dave :thumbsup:
Quote from: Mustermark on June 28, 2012, 08:10:53 PM
Stovold's teaser #1. I find Kings Cross to have six interconnecting lines and I believe this to be the most on the system. Any advance on 6?
i think you are right, MM. In some quarters, Bank and Monument are described as the Bank Monument complex which also has six lines.
Your last move has cut off my route to the DLR, so I'm going for a risky move that everyone is avoiding
Camden Town
don't have that chicken jerky!!!!
it's deadly!!!
the walk by the canal is ace though!!
Got fined on the dangle way for impersonating staff but with so many moves I've lost track of where we've been.
I would venture to Wimbeldon but as I think it has already been visited will a bit mad and go to Barking.
Ray
Barking was visited previously, but before TGV's appel, so i believe under the Old Viva Convention (under which one is continually driven mad) it is allowed.
I think Camden Town was a wonderful move for the 100th in the game. Fabulous place and a great move in the game.
But as we are now Barking, i will take us via the Royal Electrical Railway to Regent Spark.
As a diversion while others visit the zoo while we are in Regent's Park...
Stovold challenge #2
I started with the obvious Embankment to Charing Cross that is about 200 yards, but only one stop on the tube, so hardly an embarrassment of geographical shortsightedness.
But how about Warren St to Euston Square. To walk it is 0.15 miles. By tube it is a minimum of three stations and one change of line... Warren St... Victoria line via Euston to KX, change to Circle and one stop to Euston Sq.
Can anyone find a worse journey bytube for a similarly short walk?
Quote from: Mustermark on June 29, 2012, 12:19:48 AM
As a diversion while others visit the zoo while we are in Regent's Park...
Stovold challenge #2
I started with the obvious Embankment to Charing Cross that is about 200 yards, but only one stop on the tube, so hardly an embarrassment of geographical shortsightedness.
But how about Warren St to Euston Square. To walk it is 0.15 miles. By tube it is a minimum of three stations and one change of line... Warren St... Victoria line via Euston to KX, change to Circle and one stop to Euston Sq.
Can anyone find a worse journey bytube for a similarly short walk?
There's a challenge!
A post office van turned up at my house early this morning with the first of another sackload of letters from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales (heaven help us if she were to discover e mails) so I'm am going to have to spend time away from the game today whilst I plough through. Here's an example:
"Dear Field Marshall Pendgomery,
Delighted to learn that you are still keeping yourself alert despite being over 100 years old. Your performance in the desert was magnificent, and a joy to behold.
I have heard about some waders on the game in Mornington Gusset and wondered if you could use your expertise with Desert Rats to advise me whether the large brown rodent that has been traversing my garden is likely to nest in them.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis (North Wales)"
Quote from: newportnobby on June 28, 2012, 08:35:07 PM
Quote from: Mustermark on June 28, 2012, 08:10:53 PM
I am attired in the traditional London Bus red Seersucker jacket, Jermyn St shirt, with a pair of hyperbolic geometric pants and of course turquoise stilettoes.
For any non-players still reading this thread, were you by any chance at the Wigan Show last December :o
I was not at the Wigan show, but it is fair to assume that there were probably others there that (during a game of MC) had made a second move to the Oval and who may similarly have been in 'Pavilion', requiring them to be suitably attired.
Totally lost now but Mustermark was last seen with his head in a lions mouth which must mean we're near Regent's Park...
If that's the case I suggest we move on to visit another pack of wild animals in that big house at Westminster...
Quote from: Mustermark on June 29, 2012, 12:19:48 AM
Stovold challenge #2
Can anyone find a worse journey by tube for a similarly short walk?
West Ruislip to Ruislip is about 0.6miles/1km as the crow flies...
Shortest single change all-tube journey is via Liverpool St! on the Central Line then Metropolitan.
There are shorter options with more changes though. eg:
Central Line to Bond Street; Jubilee Line to Baker Street; Met to Ruislip (3 lines, 3 trains)
Or
Central Line to North Action; Central to Ealing Broadway; District Line to Ealing Common; Piccadilly Line to Ruislip (3 lines, 4 trains)
Marvellous find PLD. Stovold would be proud of that one. There surely can be no tougher walkable journey!?
But the Vertical Zoo Axis move to Westminster was inspired but i think we are in Spoon. I would therefore suggest we visit 24 Leinster Gardens in Bayswater, tell them we just moved in at number 23 and see if we can borrow a cup of sugar.
So, Bayswater on the Circle Line.
ahh Bayswater.....
there use to be a little church there... with a 'wayside pulpit'..
which read ' Tired of Sin ? Come on in'
underneath some had written....
'if not ring Bayswater 437'.....
LOL
Ah, Bayswater 437. Fond memories!
Leinster Gardens that a nice dummy MM which makes me think of another sort of madam (Tussards) have we been to Baker Street yet?
And we were at Baker St on move 29. You can do it but it would put us in thripp and you on the naughty step.
I think an alternative should be sought.
In that case how about Upney?
Hah! Clever!
Upney clearly put us in Slumber. So we need to get out of the Doldrums. We equally could get trapped in the gyratory, but let's try Hangar Lane.
Gallions Reach
Coventry Garden
Star Lane
Your still on the DLR the newish bit that is, which makes me think I could go to MORNINGTON CRESCENT
You could go for Mornington Crescent, if it had step-free access from street to train, but unfortunately it does not.
Spoil sport I'll have to Chalk Farm instead
My oh my. Hangar Lane did get us out of Slumber!
Preston Road
Quote from: REGP on June 29, 2012, 09:19:27 PM
Spoil sport I'll have to Chalk Farm instead
You were unlucky. Livingstone's Amendment to Rule 134.3A states that a move from a station with full step-free access from street to train to a station without full step free access from street to train can only be made if the station preceding the destination station has full step-free access from street to train. Johnstone's 2012 Amendment to Livingstone's Amendment to Rule 134.3A now states that a move from a station with full step-free access from street to train to a station without full step free access from street to train can only be made if the stations preceding the destination station and following the destination station both have full step-free access from street to train. This change was as a result of cuts made to the number of stations for proposed upgrading to step-free because of the recession.
By the same criteria, Chalk Farm is also invalid but I missed it because I was dealing with the following letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales
"Dear Bendy,
I noticed that one of your participants who is on the game used an Oyster Card. Surely this is invalid as there is not an R in the month?
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
Golders Green then
Hammersmith
As this station has step-free access from street to platform for all three lines it means that Livingstone's Amendment to Rule 134.3A no longer applies but the next move must be to a station with a toilet inside the ticket gateline (Rule 134.3B otherwise known as the Looe's Rule which was passed by tourists arriving from the Cornish hotspot)
I cant think of many stations that meet that rule apart from Barking but I think we have been there already. So I will try Gospel Oak I am sure there is a loo on one of the platforms, well we used it.
Ray
I'm going for one of those stations with the male toilets inside the ticket gateline and the female toilets outside the ticket gateline.
Theydon Bois
which, incidentally, was named after the actor who was killed in the opening scene of the film 'Murder on the 4:50 from Mornington Cresecent '. He also had a walk-on part in the farce 'Whoops, there goes my Diagonals' as well as featuring as Lord Puce in the bored game 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Cluedo'.
Strange his late great uncle the Victorian Shakespearean actor Stifford Clays doesn't have a station named after him, not even on the LT&S.
So I may have to go for the Music Hall comedian Dollis Hill.
Ray
Quote from: REGP on June 30, 2012, 10:37:35 AM
Strange his late great uncle the Victorian Shakespearean actor Stifford Clays doesn't have a station named after him, not even on the LT&S.
So I may have to go for the Music Hall comedian Dollis Hill.
Ray
Did Dollis Hill appeared alongside the comedy duo 'Totteridge and Whetstone' on Broadway? - well Tooting Broadway to be precise
So Tooting Broadway (which was so named because of 'women of a certain type' that used to parade down the streets)
Station with film title ?
Ticket to Ryde!
Regards
Frank
Quote from: Pendy on June 30, 2012, 11:06:19 AM
Quote from: REGP on June 30, 2012, 10:37:35 AM
Strange his late great uncle the Victorian Shakespearean actor Stifford Clays doesn't have a station named after him, not even on the LT&S.
So I may have to go for the Music Hall comedian Dollis Hill.
Ray
Did Dollis Hill appeared alongside the comedy duo 'Totteridge and Whetstone' on Broadway? - well Tooting Broadway to be precise
So Tooting Broadway (which was so named because of 'women of a certain type' that used to parade down the streets)
And Tooting, i believe because the Gentlemen would drive down the street and toot at a Lady that caught his eye.
There had also been scandal of a love triangle between Totteridge, Whetstone and Dollis Hill. After finding out that Totteridge and Whetstone's act had been somewhat infuenced by Oscar Wilde, Dollis Hill went to America and appeared briefly in Vaudeville comedy before slipping into a lonely and isolated obscurity. She resurfaced back in London decades later where she became acquainted with an old friend of mine, a certain Mrs Nesbit. Which is how I know all this.
But enough of the gossip for now... With the three diagonals open; Fairlop
Quote from: Frank lax on June 30, 2012, 11:36:42 AM
Station with film title ?
Ticket to Ryde!
Regards
Frank
Cunning, you are trying to get me to declare either Notting Hill Gate which would put me in Nidd. i have also considered Hannah and her Seven Sisters and that would put me in Spoon.
MMs piece of tittle-tattle about dear old Dolly Hill has given me a way out though
I believe that Mrs Nesbit was also the housekeeper to Archbishop Stamford Green who brought humour to the church in the form of the panel game 'I'm Sorry I haven't a Pew'. So in honour of his Grace
Stamford Green
Which opens up another two diagonals!
Are you sure ???
I have just received a letter from Mrs Trellis of Nortn Wales. She has elected to move from Kings knight to Kings Cross, but I think that she might be a bit confused.
Not as confused as me, I am stilltryingto to find Stamford Green!
I can find Stamford Brook. ???
I know, Stepney "Turnem" Green but not Stamford ???
I've just had a text from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales - i recognised the number from her letters.
"Ddap Pdmda,
wgw dmdp mw mmagjd pgmmd mmt dgppjaw wgat G am wpgtgmg
wmtps pgmpadpjdw,
Mpp Tpdjjgp"
Island Gardens
I have just been joined on my left hand by Samantha. She is nipping off later to see an elderly gentleman friend to try out a couple of new moves ;D
I was put in mind of my dear old friend Mrs Nesbit today (while trying to iron a particularly crumpled pillow case). She is 93 and many say she doesn't look a day over 94. I believe she was once acquainted with Mrs Trellis. I think Mrs Trellis was a little too intense and I distinctly recall Mrs Nesbit telling me that Mrs Trellis would gossip terribly and cast aspersions about those with whom Mrs Nesbit was a fellow member at the Farringdon and Rotherhithe Tripoli Club. Mrs Nesbit would play Tripoli with some of the other long-standing members of the club (the long standing, senior members were of course known as the Old FaRT Clubbers). Anyway while the men were off playing a quiet game of Top Trumps with Archbishop Stamford Green (as a diversion from the intensity of Tripoli), the ladies would play a clandestine game of MC. While playing MC at the FaRT Club Mrs Nesbit learned of the Chuck Yerkes Underhand American Manoeuver whereby, provided that the Bayswater sugar cadge has been played and at least three diagonals remain open with Looe's Rule 134.3B in play, the Fairlop Diversion can be played and will go undetected and thus virtually guaranteeing that MC can be called on one's next turn. The only way out was for another player to employ the Whitaker Wright Suicide Dodge that no one has played since Fairlop.
I therefore declare Mornington Crescent.
Game 2 anyone?
Didn't see that one coming at all! Congratulations Mustermark
'I'm Sorry I haven't a clue' is on Radio 4 tomorrow and at Episode 2 on Radio 4 at 18:30 on Monday (repeated the following Sunday)
I think it is only fair that you should start the next game
With memories of seeing Pink Floyd play The Wall live with Mrs Nesbit on August 4th 1980, i shall open the new game, rather boldly, at
Earl's Court
Quote from: Pendy on June 30, 2012, 05:33:19 PM
'I'm Sorry I haven't a clue' is on Radio 4 tomorrow and at Episode 2 on Radio 4 at 18:30 on Monday (repeated the following Sunday)
Not forgetting ......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01k1ngt/Im_Sorry_I_Havent_A_Clue_Series_57_Episode_1/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01k1ngt/Im_Sorry_I_Havent_A_Clue_Series_57_Episode_1/)
.... and listen at your leisure!
I feel i should clarify that Mrs Nesbit was in the audience with me. Not on stage with Roger. I still recall the smell of the strange little cigarettes she was smoking.
Quote from: Pendy on June 30, 2012, 04:52:39 PM
I've just had a text from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales - i recognised the number from her letters.
"Ddap Pdmda,
wgw dmdp mw mmagjd pgmmd mmt dgppjaw wgat G am wpgtgmg
wmtps pgmpadpjdw,
Mpp Tpdjjgp"
Pendy, do you in fact speak Welsh? I could ask my fair lady to help translate. EP may also be happy to contribute his linguistic skills.
My Welsh is only good enough to pick out the words "truffle", "bludgeon" and "parsimonious".
Congratulations on a fine hard fought victory (altough I would like an adjudication on the number of reverse diagonals which you played in the early stages of the game).
Quote from: Mustermark on June 30, 2012, 05:36:45 PM
With memories of seeing Pink Floyd play The Wall live with Mrs Nesbit on August 4th 1980, i shall open the new game, rather boldly, at
Earl's Court
I have often seen players let their guard down after a gruelling Mornington Crescent victory so
Mornington Crescent
This 'Fools Mate' move was first played in 1951 in the West Croydon Blindfold Sunday League by a player who was only ever known as the Morden Masked Marauder.
Mustermark, you may start the next game.
Genius!
Possibly the longest ever game followed by the shortest possible.
I am whole heartedly in awe of the move. I did not see it coming.
This time, i will start much more causiously, and avoiding a mainline, with
Monument
Quote from: elmo on June 30, 2012, 06:02:26 PM
Congratulations on a fine hard fought victory (altough I would like an adjudication on the number of reverse diagonals which you played in the early stages of the game).
I believe i was bold with my reverse diagonals, and i would hold fast that my moves were legal. However, with a twenty move statute of limitations the challenge should have been made long since. I therefore contend that my superb, if a little underhand, victory should stand. And that hereby rests the case for the defense.
Quote from: Mustermark on June 30, 2012, 06:28:16 PM
Quote from: elmo on June 30, 2012, 06:02:26 PM
Congratulations on a fine hard fought victory (altough I would like an adjudication on the number of reverse diagonals which you played in the early stages of the game).
I believe i was bold with my reverse diagonals, and i would hold fast that my moves were legal. However, with a twenty move statute of limitations the challenge should have been made long since. I therefore contend that my superb, if a little underhand, victory should stand. And that hereby rests the case for the defense.
Yes - without having goal line technology on all lines (apart from Hawkeye on the Wimbledon Tangent as has already been mentionned) it is hard to determine whether some of the 'borderline' moves were legal. However there were no challenges at the time so Mustermark's victory stands.
Regarding Mrs Trellis's text message, I suspect she was having difficulty using the keypad of her mobile phone.
Employing the ornamental but useless structures gambit:
Marble Arch
Quote from: edwin_m on June 30, 2012, 06:41:32 PM
Employing the ornamental but useless structures gambit:
Marble Arch
I have suffered with Marble Arch in my time - a painful foot complaint. It originates from walking on marbles.
Yes, Pendy, i think you are right that she was having keyboard finger malfunction. My wife used Welsh, Slovak, Polish and Australian to decipher a text intomating that your truffle pig would be yellow bludgeon without fragrant parsimonious. But does Mrs Trellis generally make any more sense than that?
Crouch Hill
and then back to school with Mrs McClusky, Mr Bronson et al at
Grange Hill
Quote from: Pendy on June 30, 2012, 08:02:12 PM
and then back to school with Mrs McClusky, Mr Bronson et al at
Grange Hill
A mistake TV reference move - that allows me to timetravel and get to New Cross Gate by tube to capture all of the London Overground as well as the new skyway. And I claim timelord logic rules dispensation protection to prevent any backtracking.
H.
Diddley-dum diddley-dum diddley-dum diddley-dum WO-HOOOOO
Am I the only one that thinks the Doctor Who title sequence was inspired by the Tube?
Avoiding step-free stations because of the danger of Daleks, I travel back in time to Down Street.
If we are going down that line I'll have to go to Walford East :beers:
Ray
Then Gillespie Rd as it was when opened in 1906.
Renamed as Arsenal in 1932.
Crikey this looks like fun if I knew what you were doing but hey does Roma Street Station Brisbane mean anything ??? ??? ???
Blimey Dave, that's a bold move opening up the antipodean axis. But i think it is a legal move while we are in time travel mode. In an earlier game we left the London Transport system for Paris, so Brizzy is fair game.
I shall take us a couple of stops south at Brisbane and link back to familiar Thames geography - and Melvin Bragg - and go to South Bank station.
Quote from: edwin_m on June 30, 2012, 11:15:32 PM
Diddley-dum diddley-dum diddley-dum diddley-dum WO-HOOOOO
Am I the only one that thinks the Doctor Who title sequence was inspired by the Tube?
Avoiding step-free stations because of the danger of Daleks, I travel back in time to Down Street.
The original Dr Who title music was written for orchestra by Ron Grainer. The score was given to Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001) who recorded the electronic version at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale, in 1963. Ron Grainer was so impressed with the result that he wrote to the performing arts organization to ask that she be added to the writing credits for the music. They refused. The track "Doctor?" by Orbital, who recreated the Derbyshire version and added a Breakbeat drum track (creating one of my all time favourite tracks), shows the composition credit on their CD to Ron Grainer and there is no mention of Delia. Delia Derbyshire is hereby awarded the Rosalind Franklin award for unrecognized musical achievement.
My wife wishes it to be pointed out that Daleks were, in a 2005 David Tenant series, equipped with rocket motors enabling them to traverse vertical perambulatory interchanges, and thus have the ability to overcome stairs.
Fortitude Valley
I know you have to go 'down stairs' and underground to get on the 'tube' but its not quite 'down under'. Dropping right through the earth to play on its backside is plainly breaking the 'rules'. Therefore, I just walk down the road from 'New Cross Gate' and claim 'Lewisham' on the DLR. Driverless trains - that should get it back on track and put me in the driving seat.
H.
And in a parallel universe, Hampstead Bull and Bush.
A quick trip up the DLR to 'Tower Gateway' puts me back in control - of the gateway to all universes.
H.
As a result of the 'Spanish Solution' being applied to Tower Gateway in 2008, I can go straight to Barcelona and
Arc de Triomf
(Ironically the Spanish Solution was first trialled at King William Street tube station in London in 1890)
Diagonal for a short walk to Casa Batllo; the most amazing Gaudi archtecture. The building was designed around St George and the dragon with the bones and skulls of the dragon's victims strewn around, the roof being the scaley dragon's skin and the cross representing St George. The Art Nouveau interior is one of the most beautiful things i have experienced. Do take a look around while we are here.
Quote from: Pendy on July 01, 2012, 10:44:46 AM
(Ironically the Spanish Solution was first trialled at King William Street tube station in London in 1890)
It is my understanding from Mrs Nesbit whose aunt disappeared at that station, that they forgot to build an exit from the disembarking platform. A huge government cover up ensued and while the terminus was known as the City and South Triangle to the locals, untold numbers vanished. Thus the original Spanish Solution was a disasterous failure and the station was closed after 10 years amid cries of scandal. Strangely the King William St Pie Shop closed down only a month later. Best pies in all of Old London according to Mrs Nesbit's mum.
Pendy....
are you going to turn this into a book ???
if you are you jump to Yeovil Penn Mill...
I'm going to have to rule Yeovil Penn Mill as Off-side and send you to the sin-bin for 10 minutes as Mustermark did not declare Main Line stations as being Wild at the start of this game.
So back to Barcelona, and from Diagonal the next move is
Para.lel
P.S.
Some information about King William Street Tube Station and the Spanish Solution below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_William_Street_tube_station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_William_Street_tube_station)
The only answer to that is:-
Clot
Sagrada Familia
Florida
Up the funicular to the castle. What a view...
Parc de Montjuic
Rafael Nadal. What a view . . .
Sorry, distracted for a minute
Onze de Setembre
Quote from: Pendy on July 01, 2012, 08:02:05 PM
Rafael Nadal. What a view . . .
:o :-X ::)
We men just cant get away with that these days!
So with the Spanish Solution in hand (a solution of alcohol with citrus and grape flavourings, called Sangria) it is time to take us back to another station that employs the Spanish Solution.
Morden
Platform 1 at Morden now being disused means that we have a spare platform for somewhere that needs it... But where should it be moved to?
A few stops down the line to
Clapham Common
Where there are two tracks but only one platform. Clapham North is the same.
I've had a query from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Penge East,
Please can you advise me why all trains are referred to as being female? I do love a steam train. When i was a lass I had an exhilarating ride on Owen Glendower. What a beast!
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
:smiley-laughing: Outrageous, Ms East!
Great use of the spare platform, Edwin.
Chancery Lane
Westferry
Quote from: Pendy on July 01, 2012, 09:00:43 PM
I've had a query from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Penge East,
Please can you advise me why all trains are referred to as being female? I do love a steam train. When i was a lass I had an exhilarating ride on Owen Glendower. What a beast!
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
I have no idea how to play this game but find some of the posts extremely clever and amusing.
Mrs Trellis has me in fits of laughter - thank you :smiley-laughing:
Since we are in the run up to the Olympics, a historical station, no longer with us.
Wood Lane (Metropolitan Line)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Lane_(Metropolitan_line)_tube_station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Lane_(Metropolitan_line)_tube_station)
So to another historical station
Brill (which was located at the foot of Brill Hill and is also famous for the Brill windmill)
Rumour has it that a Mrs Nesbitt knew a Jill Brill. Apparently when Jill Brill was trying to remove Mrs Nesbitt's corns by rubbing them with steel wool impregnated with soap, she was over-vigorous in her use of the steel wool causing Mrs Nesbitt to cry out 'Brill Ow'
I have seen the scars myself. Mrs Nesbit will show them to anyone after a gin and tonic (slimline, of course). Jack Brill (Jill's husband), after whom the Hill was named after a freak accident, was a prolific inventor. He filed such patents as the vinegar and brown paper dressing for head injuries, and also the Brill-ow Pad. The latter patent has Jill and Mrs Nesbit as co-inventors. Jack Brill has never made a single penny from his patents and he and Jill live in virtual penury with only a modest allowance from Jack's uncle Lord Winthrop-Peplum. Do you know him?
Lord Winthrop-Peplum of Dimley Swithering (a delightful village on the banks of the River Isis), is known as Peppers in the mess room at the House of Lords, and as Windy to his friends at the FaRT Club. He quite coincidentally visited Morden yesterday. He had planned to visit Covent Garden, but, with his propensity to fall asleep on the train, ended up in Morden. Not even the Telegraph crossword could keep him awake once the train entered the lulling darkness of the Underground. In spite of his egress from LUT at some distance from his appointment, he did find Archbishop (retired) Green at home in his South London pied-a-terre. Windy apparently still holds his old pal Greeny in great esteem, as he puts it "to make a living from the faith of others, when it isn't you they have any faith in, is pure genius". Windy was also commenting on the recent antics of the Lord Mayor during his trip to the United States of America, where he seems to have declared that he could be the President. A step up from Reagan or Bush Greeny conceded. Windy was also telling Greeny how much he had enjoyed his day out on Thursday riding the cable thingy with Boris.
Which takes us neatly to Emirates Greenwich Penninsula.
Must have been a long sleep to end up at Morden (Northern Line) after dozing off on a train for Covent Garden (Piccadilly).
As we're on suspended modes of transport, I'll get my coat from
Hanger Lane
Peppers could nod off for England in the Olympics!
There is much hanging around to be done at Heathrow Terminal 5.
Quote from: Mustermark on July 01, 2012, 11:35:14 PM
Peppers could nod off for England in the Olympics!
There is much hanging around to be done at Heathrow Terminal 5.
There is plenty of hanging around for you, son - as that last move has put you in Spoon!
This is because of Arry's Rule whereby if you leave a station that begins with an H you cannot move to another station that begins with an H if there are any more that three consecutive stations on the route that start with an H (and you have five). This rule was devised for arry unt of ampstead eath as e could not pronounce is aitches.
Quote from: Pendy on July 02, 2012, 07:28:56 AM
There is plenty of hanging around for you, son - as that last move has put you in Spoon!
This is because of Arry's Rule whereby if you leave a station that begins with an H you cannot move to another station that begins with an H if there are any more that three consecutive stations on the route that start with an H (and you have five). This rule was devised for arry unt of ampstead eath as e could not pronounce is aitches.
I suspect 'arry was suffering from emphysema and should go to hospital. I suggest :- Charing Cross.
I think London Bridge would be more appropriate.
Quote from: Mustermark on July 01, 2012, 11:35:14 PM
Peppers could nod off for England in the Olympics!
I'm not as familiar with Peppers as you are MM, was he the Peppers that featured on the Lonely FaRTs Club Band?
I think he was also on good terms with Percival Vale, the composer, known as Peri to his friends as he was very fond of drinking perry.
Peri Vale's most famous works were the opening bars of the soundtracks to the films 'Dial M for Morden', 'The Shoreditch Redemption', 'North Acton by North West Acton' and 'Forest Hill Gump'. He was never able to progress beyond the first few bars.
My last recollection of him was standing on a bench at Camberley station, whipping the commuter into a frenzy, by singing 'A blue Desiro, when will we see your like again' to the tune of 'Flower of Scotland' for which he was given a warm clap. I think he ended up in the same orspital as Arry.
So, in honour of the old soak
Perivale
That is the very same Peppers. Couldnt sing though. Tone deaf i believe. And he could only sing in mono, so once the stereo revolution came he had nothing to offer.
His best recording was "With a Little Help from Mrs Trellis", possibly a success because the vocals were performed by Bingo Star Lane.
Although i never met him myself, I think Peri was an undiscovered talent. I doubt anyone has done more for the opening bars of so many minor B movies than he did. He will be sadly missed... unless of course the search party finds him in the reversing loop at Kennington.
Gosh, I'd forgotten all about Bingo.
Kennington is an inspired move as there is a choice of two northbound moves - both dangerous.
So I'm using the reversing loop to scuttle back to Balham
Er, I think I am . . . I am aren't I . . . or am I . . . yes I am
I'm in Nidd!
Hah! You are indeed in Nidd!
Pendy
Have they got a station at Nidd? If not where's that spare platform gone. We could move that and get you out.
Ray
With me in spoon and Pendy in nidd, we could end up with a dead game if we are not careful. So,
Headstone Lane
Quote from: REGP on July 02, 2012, 07:00:20 PM
Pendy
Have they got a station at Nidd? If not where's that spare platform gone. We could move that and get you out.
Ray
That is a brilliant idea - I'm now out of Nidd
Quote from: Mustermark on July 02, 2012, 07:21:43 PM
. . . we could end up with a dead game if we are not careful. So,
Headstone Lane
. . . where I am digging up
King George V
Mrs Nesbit called me today to tell me that she had moved house. Well flat, I suppose. She moved from a rather nice Edwardian top floor flat on Long Acre near Covent Garden to a slightly smaller, but more importantly ground floor apartment in South Kensington (or South Ken as she calls it). She told me that she had engaged the services of a moving company that seems to comprise three Dutch brothers; of the van Mann Family. Ruud, Weit and Dojjie are apparently identical triplets. She said they were very reasonably priced, but the ride across town was quite a hair raising experience. It seems they packed her in the back of the transit still sitting in her favourite French imported rococo wingback armchair. She was pleasantly reassured that nothing went missing in the move and expressed her surprise because she is sure she has seen Weit van Mann on Crimewatch before now. Anyway, in accordance with Mrs Nesbit's relocation I shall move us to the house-warming party at...
South Kensington.
With all this stuff going on in the city I have had to go to Bank
Quote from: REGP on July 03, 2012, 09:54:02 AM
With all this stuff going on in the city I have had to go to Bank
And from Bank it's a fast train to Heathrow Terminal 4 to take the Yank Bank ex-Boss home...
The quicker the better
I'm making a Serpentine movement, as defined by the equation x2y + aby - a2x = 0, where ab > 0 (but I'm not telling you what a or b are)
from Heathrow Terminal 4 to
Loughton
Silly Girl. B- for maths, you forgot to carry the 2...
That equation only gets us to Leyton....
Aw shucks, this is why I never won at cards - missed out the 2 when calculating the odds.
Once a gambler, always a gambler . . .
Pontoon Dock
I would have thought a serpentine movement would end us up in Hyde Park.
Quote from: Pendy on July 03, 2012, 03:44:46 PM
as defined by the equation x2y + aby - a2x = 0
Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the letter i and the number 3.14159265358979323846
I was chatting with another ex-pat Brit in the pub (The "Yank and Chain" on Old Krapper Rd) last night. His name is Warren Peece. Nice chap but dull. Very high brow and he does go on and on. He was telling me how Blackfriars station reopened back in Feb this year after nearly three years of rebuilding. It now has entrances to the platforms on both banks of the river, which he was sure is unique. Mayor Boris (or BJ to his mates) had been admiring it at the opening and Warren had joked with him about it being as clean as a Swiss maternity ward. Blackfriars is also an overground station on the Bedford to Brighton route.
How about Blackfriars for our next stop. All change for a nice day out in Brighton!
Quote from: Mustermark on July 03, 2012, 10:27:56 PM
How about Blackfriars for our next stop. All change for a nice day out in Brighton!
What a wonderful idea! I'm not falling into your trap and declaring Brighton, as I'd be Off-side.
I was not nearly as familiar with Warren Peece as you as I don't tend to move in such highbrow circles (or should I say lassos since the line was extended to Hammersmith)
I can cast my mind back to happier days at the Oval, watching the notorious West Indian fast bowler, Devons Road, bowling many a maiden over. He was devastating in the covers and lightning in the slips.
Devons Road
Right, my turn:
Alperton
That should put the cat amongst the pideons and have some reaching for their map books.
H.
Ah yes our old friend Al' Perton. (nice chap except he modelled in that funny 00 scale...) I believe he was a good friend of Rich' Mond.
Was he aquatinted with Stan More? You know the chap who got hooked on Jublies only to walk into a wall between platforms 9 & 10 at Kings Cross looking for Apple Dor.
Poor old Stan More, did he ever find Apple?
I don't think he was ever the same since he was sold a rust heap from the dodgy car dealer . . .
'Swiss' Cottage
For sale... One genuine original 18th century Chesterfield sofa from the collection of the 4th Earl Philip Stanhope himself. Floral pattern with roses and hummingbirds. Good condition with tufting and piping all as new. No stains, or at least none that couldn't be removed with Swarfega. Value approx £18,000. Free to anyone who can unwedge it from the stairway at Cressington Apartments, Long Acre. Transportation within Zone 1 will also be provided free of charge courtesy of Van Mann Removals. Sorry to break forum rules, there is no photo yet because Mrs Nesbit ran out of flash cubes for her Brownie Instamatic.
The mad old bat, claims that the whole wedging thing is the fault of an electronic monk who apparently visited the apartments looking for something to believe in and left convinced that N Gauge is better than OO Gauge.
All enquiries by telephone to South Kensington 8314. Or in person at Cressington Apartments.
I shall now take us, in memory of Douglas Adams, to Highbury and Islington where he used to live.
Quote from: Pendy on July 04, 2012, 06:54:39 AM
I can cast my mind back to happier days at the Oval, watching the notorious West Indian fast bowler, Devons Road, bowling many a maiden over. He was devastating in the covers and lightning in the slips.
Yes, wonderful smooth action. As she was such a keen amateur ladies cricketer, i wonder did Mrs Trellis ever have the pleasure of playing with him?
Funnily enough, I've just had this letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales
Dear Appendage
I think my husband might be going through a bit of a crisis. He keeps asking me to buy some black eyed peas and Mrs Weatherall at the greengrocers has never heard of anything so stupid.
Do you think it is anything to worry about
Mrs Tr.Ell.Is
Whose move is it?
The last move was Highbury and Islington
Dagenham Heathway
I was there lunchtime went onto Oxford Circus to take a look at the new Broadcasting House.
I stopped off between trains at Blackfriars expecting to see a shiny new station and (at platform level at least) it's very far from it. So I should have changed trains at:
Farringdon.
I am put in mind of my Flower Arranging days at Farringdon, which is where i first met the redoubtable Mrs Nesbit. She was something to behold in her earlier years. Like a gladioli ninja. But my days of flower arranging are long over and i have in later years settled for the more sedate pasttime of transcendental origami.
The best non-contact competitive origami club I know of is through the little door on Camden High St, next to the HSBC bank, and up the stairs at...
Camden Town.
Living dangerously with Camden Town, MM, as it is only one stop away from you-know-where!
I'm going to leave your origami behind and head off to "Wheels of Steel" and the nearest station being
Bond Street
I know we're past move no 007 but I still try the obvious...
Please form an orderly 'Q' at St James's Park...
Balham gateway to the south is calling.
Somebody please shut and padlock that gate quickly!
Then we can make a run for the border with civilisation at Watford (mind the gap!)
i always thought that was the Watford Gap, some 50 miles north of Watford, and was the border with the Midlands. Although I'm sure my rellies in Lancashire call Midlanders "Southerners" anyway.
Wickedpedia says:
"The Watford Gap is located at a minor gap between two slight hills in the county of Northamptonshire, England. Engineers from Roman times onwards have found it to be an appropriate route connecting the Midlands with the South East.
In a width of 400 metres (0.25 mi) the A5 road, the West Coast Main Line railway, the M1 motorway and a branch of the Grand Union Canal all traverse the gap in parallel."
Lets try a little further north, but definitely full of Southerners...
Chesham
Farbstein Gleissbaum III visited Raleigh this week to open his new building. This world renown architect has buildings all over the world. As he put it in his address before cutting the 'caution do not cross' tape, "there is always a conflict in architecture between form and function. But now, at the age of 115, i feel i can give full reign to the notion of art over structural integrity", his reasoning being that any litigation would last longer than he will.
His magnum opus in Raleigh was preceded by a fabulous building in London, nicknamed Escher's Folly, and resembles Norman Fosters Gherkin, but smaller and upside down, folded in half and at 45 dgrees to the Earth's angle of obliquity. The only people currently allowed behind the Caution tape are theoretical physicists trying to calculate new theories to explain how the building stays up. Worth a visit, nearest tube stop...
Aldgate East
Quote from: Mustermark on July 06, 2012, 02:20:48 PM
i always thought that was the Watford Gap, some 50 miles north of Watford, and was the border with the Midlands. Although I'm sure my rellies in Lancashire call Midlanders "Southerners" anyway.
Wickedpedia says:
"The Watford Gap is located at a minor gap between two slight hills in the county of Northamptonshire, England. Engineers from Roman times onwards have found it to be an appropriate route connecting the Midlands with the South East.
In a width of 400 metres (0.25 mi) the A5 road, the West Coast Main Line railway, the M1 motorway and a branch of the Grand Union Canal all traverse the gap in parallel."
Lets try a little further north, but definitely full of Southerners...
Chesham
Yes I know it's the wrong Watford but poetic Licence - this game never has been about geographic accuracy! (in any case, anything outside the area bounded by the Humber Esturary, the Pennine Hills, the River Tees and the North Sea is the 'bad lands' and best avoided...)
With that in mind we'll hop on this train heading for Clapham Junction and hope it is the one in Noth Yorkshire...
Quote from: PLD on July 06, 2012, 03:17:50 PM
With that in mind we'll hop on this train heading for Clapham Junction and hope it is the one in Noth Yorkshire...
A jaunt on the West London Line is always great fun, so
Kensington Olympia
Quote from: PLD on July 06, 2012, 03:17:50 PM
Yes I know it's the wrong Watford but poetic Licence - this game never has been about geographic accuracy! (in any case, anything outside the area bounded by the Humber Esturary, the Pennine Hills, the River Tees and the North Sea is the 'bad lands' and best avoided...)
My most humble apologies PLD. It is one of my pet peeves and a completely unwarranted knee-jerk reaction. Jerk being the operative word. I shall now take a forfeit and eat this flower arrangement that just arrived by "Garden-waste-o-gram".
But i hope it may at least have given the correctitudinousness of my post to a casual observer from the Sarf, who may otherwise believe that the Norf begins just the other side of the Starbucks on the A411.
Sarf is Sarf of the river (Thames) and Norf begins at the at Gap (Watford) so I going east to Upminster.
Up Minister? Wasn't that the post watershed version of a comedy classic?
In memory of Sir Humphrey, one of the best characters ever devised...
Going "West" to Westminster.
I've just had another letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales. She writes:
"Dear Pampers
The recent reference to 'Eschers folly' reminds me of Prince Charles referring to a building as being like a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend".
He has obviously not seen the size of the boil on Mrs Nesbitt's nose. With her leathery skin and enormous buttocks, it makes her look even more like a rhinoceros.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
Yes, i can see the animosity that Mrs Trellis has for poor dear Mrs Nesbit has not abated in the slightest.
I will concede that with her rotund rear end, Mrs Nesbit has been likened to a Weeble.
The boil i believe is due to lanced a week on Wednesday.
And her dry wrinkled skin is a direct result of being in the sun so much as a desert rat in WWII. She clearly had to lie about more than her age, but "Captain Edifice Charlton Nesbit" as she was known during those years won various commendations for 'his' ability to overcome heat stroke and drink less than a camel.
The disturbing thing for me is that the moustache she had as part of her disguise was all her own. Even worse was when she decided to keep it after the war.
Quote from: Mustermark on July 06, 2012, 06:44:19 PM
The disturbing thing for me is that the moustache she had as part of her disguise was all her own. Even worse was when she decided to keep it after the war.
:smiley-laughing:
Perhaps she needs to go to see Sweaty Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. Alight at
Embankment
Funnily enough, i have seen her use a cut-throat razor for the stubble on her chin!
Quote from: Mustermark on July 06, 2012, 05:52:46 PM
In memory of Sir Humphrey, one of the best characters ever devised...
He's become so iconic that even today politicians and lobbyists will say things like "Humphrey won't like that" and refer the civil service in general as "Humphrey"
Alan
Ill take the chance to visit Pudding Mill Lane one last time before it closes for some spring event or other.
Royal Victoria
Hackney Wick
East India
Bromley By Bow
Canary Wharf
Dalston Junction
Canonbury
I've just had this letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales.
"Dear Mr Flintoff
i have noticed your whites are rather grubby and there are marks where you rub your balls.
Before putting your whites in the washing machine, circle any stains in permanent pen, so that when you remove them from the washing machine you can easily locate the area of the stains and check that the stains have gone.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
:smiley-laughing:
Quote from: Pendy on July 07, 2012, 03:19:06 PM
Canary Wharf
Foul! you played "Canary Wharf" on 25 June 2012, at 22:49:36, that must count as a double hit you are penalised to shots and loss of hole! :wave:
Quote from: MinZaPint on July 08, 2012, 07:06:14 PM
Quote from: Pendy on July 07, 2012, 03:19:06 PM
Canary Wharf
Foul! you played "Canary Wharf" on 25 June 2012, at 22:49:36, that must count as a double hit you are penalised to shots and loss of hole! :wave:
Ah, yes, but, you see, that was the opening move of game 1. We are currently on game 3. The rules are very strange and nebulous, but i think we can be sure that the stations can be recycled after the start of a new game.
I have therefore to adjudicate that Canary Wharf is a legitimate move and Minzapint must take a forfeit of two fingers of Whisky. Thus making the game more difficult and confusing, but hopefully also a lot more fun. Am currently enjoying a couple of fingers myself.... 16 year old Lagavulin. Fine stuff.
Yes, but Old Lagavulin is a bit of the map, but at least it eas aged in OAKWOOD
Ray
Oh now, it was fast and furious yesterday. Some bold moves and some stout defense. Thrilling stuff. Today has resumed at a much more sedate and considered pace. Very possibly due to closures (part and planned) on Circle, District,Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan, Northern, Waterloo and City, and Overground. It doesn't leave many moves safe at this time.
It puts me in mind of Boris Spasky when faced with a late Dollis Hill move in the Grandmasters MC Challenge in Moscow in 1978. Nigel Short had just played Bank in a rash move that could so easily have paid off. Spasky took a record two days and 14 hours over his next move to Knightsbridge. Kasparov was bouncing up and down in his seat like a two year old seeing the cross-town Northern Split open up, but he was pipped to it by Deep Blue calling MC and bringing to an end one of the most lengthy, star-studded and interminably dull games of MC ever played.
Back here to the fast paced game of some seasoned amateurs.
Holland Park.
I think I will try one of those new S7 trains on the H & C to Latimer Road my old stomping ground.
West India Quay
Hanger Lane
Quote from: Mustermark on July 08, 2012, 08:24:06 PM
The rules are very strange and nebulous,
You mean there ARE rules? Methinks nebulous does not do it justice :smiley-laughing:
Off-side! Hangar Lane was the 30th move of this game I believe.
You need to take a forfeit and I believe you are in spoon!
Take another turn.
That made Brent Cross :sleep:
Quote from: REGP on July 08, 2012, 09:40:41 PM
That made Brent Cross :sleep:
. . . who Burnt Oak
Chalfont & Latimer ganged up on him?
Pops into thread with just three words :
Great
Portland
Street
pops out again
Quote from: SymonC on July 09, 2012, 08:39:35 AM
Pops into thread with just three words :
Great
Portland
Street
pops out again
Hey - using GPS to find your way around is cheating...
The rest of us are relying on Ramdom Strumbling which takes us next to Russel Square...
Royal Oak
Oakwood is next
Got my Oaks mixed up should be Gospel Oak
Quote from: Mustermark on July 08, 2012, 08:24:06 PM
I have therefore to adjudicate that Canary Wharf is a legitimate move and Minzapint must take a forfeit of two fingers of Whisky. Thus making the game more difficult and confusing, but hopefully also a lot more fun. Am currently enjoying a couple of fingers myself.... 16 year old Lagavulin. Fine stuff.
Duly humbled I decided as it was game 3 and because I love the stuff to take a triple forfeit of Balvenie :thumbsup:
Honor Oak Park
You almost through me with that Overground move which means I ended up in Colliers Wood
Yes, it as an 'above the line' move!
Northwood
I slipped down to Kensal Rise
Very careless of you... Need to pick yourself Up-minster...
Fast and furious again today. But Upminster was played only a couple of days ago. Go back three spaces, take a chance card and take another turn.
Actually, I think I can, at this late stage in the game, without offside or offense, yes, yes (bounces up and down like a two year old)...
Dollis Hill
Or Dolly's Hill as it was originally named. I hope no-one is offended by this move at this late stage in the game.
Late stage of the game? We've only just started.
Upney
(a term for a self-defence move when attacked by hooligans)
I believe i read some stats that the average amateur MC game lasts 31.2 moves. I didn't fully understand the 0.2 of a move, but maybe that is Embankment to Charing Cross where it is almost quicker to walk.
The professional average is over 200 moves, but very much depends how you calculate it and which games you include.
We are a fair way past the 31.2 moves now, so i can feel us moving towards the end of the middle, if not the beginning of the end. I believe it is considered rude to Dollis Hill until at least after the end of the beginning, and preferably after the beginning of the middle. You probably have the mathematical formula for appropriateness of Dollis Hill plotted against the ratio of move number to middleness factor in your copy of Stovold and Steinsson (2004). The red line bisecting the blue sigmoidal curve is the rudeness index of a Dollis Hill.
Queensway.
Samantha just suggested Kingsway might be more appropriate.
Obvious next move then
Prince Regent
King's Cross!
Waterloo East
Thumbing through the anals of history, I have discovered that there were several 'battles of Waterloo'.
The latest took place when a gang of Stagecoachers (insurgents from the South West that indulge in gorilla warfare) tried to take over the strategic bridgehead between Waterloo and Waterloo East. Their aim being to remove any traces of French rule from the Southeastern area and restore it to full UK control. They were repelled before the ticked gateline by hordes of 'yellow, blue and whites'. An attack on the Satchell street entrance was similarly handbagged.
The Stagecoachers have also launched an assault on Victoria's 'green and white' brigade to secure control of the Thameslink and regain a presence in Brighton (from which they were driven out in the last decade)
Interesting Pendy. And if you listen carefully to the Abba song, you will hear that history alluded to. It has been a long running and rather sordid bit of British history that I think was rather swept under the carpet in the Thatcher years.
Finchley Rd and Frognal
Mornington Crescent!
You thought I was being serious when I said we had only just started this game when in fact the sequence of moves meant we were only a few moves away! And the sequence of 'above the line' moves meant that only Mornington Crescent could be declared.
Sneaky but I like it.
Oh well done Pendy! Superb play. I think it was obvious in hind sight, but distracted by your double bluff and my own distraction into researching the theories behind the Dollis Hill move, it still took me by surprise.
Super stuff. And well played. Some stout defence but most impressive avant-garde movements both at the baseline and above the line.
I think it is you to play to start us off again.
Southampton Central
??? :o
Brockenhurst
The theory around the Dollis Hill move and its likelihood to cause offense has been in much debate for centuries. Steinsson earned a PhD from Girton College Cambridge in 1954 entitled "The Dollis Hill Move: Impressive or Outrageous". In her 780 page tome of a thesis, she explores the relationship between where in the game the Dollis Hill move is played, and the degree of outrage of the other players. It is considered very rude to play the move early in a game, but, as Steinsson explains, one does not know how long the game will last until long after Dollis Hill is played.
She explores the application of Schrodinger's theory but dismisses it because no cat was found to be outraged. However, application of Dirac's quantum theory suggested that the players would be both outraged and impressed until MC is called, at which time the position in the game of the Dollis Hill move is determined and the outrage level is resolved.
She later extended this using a theory of eigenstates to Steinsson's Uncertainty Principle; that the position in the game and the moment of outrageousness of a Dollis Hill move cannot both be known while the game is in motion.
For her genius she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for eliminating much of the outrage from the game of MC across the globe.
Steinsson was also a magnificent MCer herself but sadly rarely ever played due to her intensive research activities. There is one recorded game that i believe is on either mcTube or BBC mcPlayer. There is no truth to the rumour that McDonalds have negotiated a contract to sponsor mcTube.
I wish I had a clue what was going on ??? I know it has been explained already but I still dont get this game ???
I feel like the 'smelly kid' left out in the corner of the play-ground :smiley-laughing:
Fascinating, I had no idea about the particle physics behind the Dollis Hill move. Steinsson is a very strange quark indeed
I understand that a new sub-atomic particle, the Higgs Bosham, has been identified in West Sussex
But I'm going for the place that no-one knows exactly how to pronounce it's name
Cosham
which borders the Cosham Triangle where trains go in and some come out and some do not. All a bit spooky really
Ah bu##er it! Here goes:
Tottenham Hale!
This should check all moves heading North, I feel that due to the very mention of Physics and sub-atomic particles has lead me to do this.
Tottenham Hale has the upper and lower ground covered too, a station with two stations :smiley-laughing:....... Now thats tactics in motion for you............ ;)
Steinsson is a strange quark for sure, Pendy. I heard that there is a conspiracy theory that the Higgs Bosham is an elaborate hoax and also that if true, it accounts for the fact that West Sussex is in fact 90% dark matter.
Bold move Owl. with all the ground cover there aren't many options. But it has to be football ground cover so i am going to help celebrate their promotion to the Prem at...
Upton Park.
Quote from: Pendy on July 09, 2012, 10:20:40 PM
Fascinating, I had no idea about the particle physics behind the Dollis Hill move. Steinsson is a very strange quark indeed
I understand that a new sub-atomic particle, the Higgs Bosham, has been identified in West Sussex
But I'm going for the place that no-one knows exactly how to pronounce it's name
Cosham
which borders the Cosham Triangle where trains go in and some come out and some do not. All a bit spooky really
A very small sub-atomic particle has also been discovered that is excellent at cricket, the Higgs Botham! So
Oval!
Oh, I say! Well played sir.
The Original BBC Test Match Cricket Theme Song-Soul Limbo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67xXbTaQlKI#)
And to the Vauxhall end. Where my dad parked his grey Viva.
Back on the 'Sweet FA' loop with the mighty
All Saints
Got to say, I'm surprised you allowed my Southampton Central opening move - it was well offside!
Quote from: OwL729 on July 09, 2012, 10:30:57 PM
Ah bu##er it! Here goes:
Tottenham Hale!
This should check all moves heading North, I feel that due to the very mention of Physics and sub-atomic particles has lead me to do this.
Tottenham Hale has the upper and lower ground covered too, a station with two stations :smiley-laughing:....... Now thats tactics in motion for you............ ;)
Good to see you are now on the game OwL
From All Saints, I'm going to try for the Two Towers Transfer and try
St Chad's
(that shoud have you scurrying for the rail atlas...)
Well it doesn't look offside because it is right next to King's Cross. But it isn't on my tube map so i can't see what line it is on. I think we need an adjudication on this one.
Quote from: Mustermark on July 10, 2012, 01:19:46 PMWell it doesn't look offside because it is right next to King's Cross. But it isn't on my tube map so i can't see what line it is on. I think we need an adjudication on this one.
While there is indeed a St Chads in London which is not served by rail, there is another in the UK which is the name of a stop on a rail system... The 'Tower' reference is the clue... ;)
PLD, if its the same St Chads that it near Columbia Street Market, then it is acceptable as it is within walking distance of Hoxton station.
I've just had a letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Mr Cameron,
On holiday with Mr Trellis in Blackpool a few years back, I took part in a quiz and managed to reach the final only to lose out after what I consider to this day, to be a correct answer. The question asked "What 'C' would you associate Jeremy Clarkson with?" to which I confidently gave my answer. Not only was I told the answer was incorrect, but I was asked by the holiday rep to vacate the premises immediately. Has anyone else experienced such appalling treatment whilst holidaying with one's family?
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
Quote from: Pendy on July 10, 2012, 01:44:24 PM
PLD, if its the same St Chads that it near Columbia Street Market, then it is acceptable as it is within walking distance of Hoxton station.
I've just had a letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Mr Cameron,
On holiday with Mr Trellis in Blackpool a few years back, I took part in a quiz and managed to reach the final only to lose out after what I consider to this day, to be a correct answer. The question asked "What 'C' would you associate Jeremy Clarkson with?" to which I confidently gave my answer. Not only was I told the answer was incorrect, but I was asked by the holiday rep to vacate the premises immediately. Has anyone else experienced such appalling treatment whilst holidaying with one's family?
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
No it isn't that St Chads either, but Mrs Trellis may well have boarded at St Chads during that holiday...
:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: Pendy on July 10, 2012, 01:44:24 PM
PLD, if its the same St Chads that it near Columbia Street Market, then it is acceptable as it is within walking distance of Hoxton station.
I've just had a letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Mr Cameron,
On holiday with Mr Trellis in Blackpool a few years back, I took part in a quiz and managed to reach the final only to lose out after what I consider to this day, to be a correct answer. The question asked "What 'C' would you associate Jeremy Clarkson with?" to which I confidently gave my answer. Not only was I told the answer was incorrect, but I was asked by the holiday rep to vacate the premises immediately. Has anyone else experienced such appalling treatment whilst holidaying with one's family?
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
Pendy, you will have to inform Mrs Trellis that the very mention of Cleveleys can cause consternation with Blackpool residents. I cannot think of another C word that one would associate with Mr Clarkson that would spark such a reaction.
PLD, You don't by any chance mean St Chad's Rd Tram Stop?
If so, next move Pleasure Beach.
I will be in nid while i go on the rides and relive my childhood.
Quote from: Pendy on July 10, 2012, 07:03:24 AM
Got to say, I'm surprised you allowed my Southampton Central opening move - it was well offside!
I hadn't considered it offside. I assumed you were merely wanting to play with the Parsons Regional Inclusivity Clause, so devised with the intention that those not on the London network, and for whom more provincial and parochial transportation was the norm, should not feel excluded from the game. I thought it was a nice touch for all those forum members in the far flung reaches, such as Hampshire, to feel included.
I was relieved that you didn't also play the Stovold Mainline Exclusivity Gambit.
If we are carrying on with the current phase of the game then why not Piccadilly?
Quote from: REGP on July 10, 2012, 05:27:37 PM
If we are carrying on with the current phase of the game then why not Piccadilly?
Couldn't decide which dilly to pick, it was all a bit of a circus so walked to Leicester Square (cheaper and quicker than the tube!)
You picked the wrong Dilly, it would take you a very long time to reach Leicester
Square if you were walking.
Russell Square. Or at least people say he is. But i think he can be kind of fun after a pint and he lets his hair down. Just the one hair. Like Homer.
Hair!
Back in the West End now so
Covent Garden
I thought we were in Manchester.
Oldham Mumps (Temporary stop)
I check your covent Garden with
Lancaster Gate,
too many tourists in Covent Garden im afraid so its back to the place of the oldest surving shrine of the medieval gateway toll road back to Lancashire ::)
Well if we are going to Manchester then it's onto the Pendolino from
Euston
Quote from: OwL729 on July 10, 2012, 07:06:52 PM
its back to the place of the oldest surving shrine of the medieval gateway toll road back to Lancashire ::)
Eyup :wave:
Quote from: newportnobby on July 10, 2012, 07:28:42 PM
Quote from: OwL729 on July 10, 2012, 07:06:52 PM
its back to the place of the oldest surving shrine of the medieval gateway toll road back to Lancashire ::)
Eyup :wave:
I see ya mate :beers:
Y'alreet lad.
Deansgate.
Playing the rule that any station ending in gate opens up a gate to anywhere
Effingham Junction
"Seventeen minutes late, water seeping through the cables at Effingham Junction - there was a lot of Effingham and a good deal of Blindingham!"
Quote from: SymonC on July 10, 2012, 07:55:11 PM
Playing the rule that any station ending in gate opens up a gate to anywhere
Effingham Junction
"Seventeen minutes late, water seeping through the cables at Effingham Junction - there was a lot of Effingham and a good deal of Blindingham!"
Well done SymonC to get us back to Surrey as I'd be right out of my comfort zone in foreign places like Manchester - particularly as I can't speak northern,
How about a day at the races?
Tattenham Corner
Quote from: Pendy on July 10, 2012, 08:00:21 PM
Quote from: SymonC on July 10, 2012, 07:55:11 PM
Playing the rule that any station ending in gate opens up a gate to anywhere
Effingham Junction
"Seventeen minutes late, water seeping through the cables at Effingham Junction - there was a lot of Effingham and a good deal of Blindingham!"
Well done SymonC to get us back to Surrey as I'd be right out of my comfort zone in foreign places like Manchester - particularly as I can't speak northern,
How about a day at the races?
Tattenham Corner
Only station in Surrey for races :Esher!
Esher station was 'Little Howards Big question' before the grown ups showed up.
Quote from: OwL729 on July 10, 2012, 08:14:48 PM
Quote from: Pendy on July 10, 2012, 08:00:21 PM
Quote from: SymonC on July 10, 2012, 07:55:11 PM
Playing the rule that any station ending in gate opens up a gate to anywhere
Effingham Junction
"Seventeen minutes late, water seeping through the cables at Effingham Junction - there was a lot of Effingham and a good deal of Blindingham!"
Well done SymonC to get us back to Surrey as I'd be right out of my comfort zone in foreign places like Manchester - particularly as I can't speak northern,
How about a day at the races?
Tattenham Corner
Only station in Surrey for races :Esher!
Esher station was 'Little Howards Big question' before the grown ups showed up.
Unless you go to Lingfield Park races! So staying in Surrey :
Lingfield
Drat!
Clever flanking move my friend!
Then if we cant race horses then its off to football,
White Hart Lane!
Well if it is back to football then it is off to the upwardly mobile
All Saints
Then to the Black Country it is for West Bromwich Albion..
Hawthorns!
Offside!
Pendy called All Saints on move 8! She is in nid now.
Hawthorns is allowed, so now it's off to Horwich Parkway for the Reebok Stadium.
Boothferry Park Halt ;)
This is madness! Hawthorns was clearly Off-Side (and full of people wearing Tesco carrier bags)
But I can get back to Surrey via a Rugby special from Hull to London Broncos and then onto
Kempton Park
which used to be race days only but now has a regular daily train service
Quote from: Mustermark on July 10, 2012, 08:36:52 PM
Offside!
Pendy called All Saints on move 8! She is in nid now.
Hawthorns is allowed, so now it's off to Horwich Parkway for the Reebok Stadium.
Darn it again! I can see the strength of move 8 by Pendy, then double checked by your move to Horwich Parkway.
Time to lick my wounds and move back down to
Maida Vale
Busted at Horses and Football!
You both got me then good and proper :evil:
A very clever below the line move at a crucial time of the game . . .
Yes, damn it. I was just going to Newbury Racecourse. But that is now offside, so I'm going to play it square and open up the diagonals with...
Haggerston
Quote from: Mustermark on July 10, 2012, 09:25:10 PM
Yes, damn it. I was just going to Newbury Racecourse. But that is now offside, so I'm going to play it square and open up the diagonals with...
Haggerston
From there on the City extension on the old North London railway please give my regards to
Broad Street
Funnily enough I was getting to play Newbury Racecourse too but, instead, will have to go with
Newbury Park
OK Then, try Central Park.
(The UK one...)
Well if we are back in Manchester try Derker.
Oh gawd, you've got me scrambling for my Greater Manchester Rail Network Map and what interesting names there are for some of the stations.
As I'm now on foreign territory, I am likely to make some elementary blunders, so with much trepidation
Besses o'th Barn
(Has anyone been there? Were there Bessess and a Barn?)
You missed an apostrophe. Apart from the name its main claim to fame is that it spans the M60 on a rather unusual bridge.
Hall i'th' Wood.
To be fair to Pendy, that is how it is spelt on the official map. Though i would also suggest it should have an apostrophe to show the contraction of the the, if you see what i mean.
Broadbottom.
No, the station. It wasn't an insult.
Flowery Field near Hyde might give us a route back to a London Park if some one can remember the correct diagonals or variation.
Luvverly sounding spot.
I think we might be staying in Madchester... Newton-Le-Willows.
I remember as a young lad being taken by my dad to the spot at Parkside near Newton where the first public railway fatality occurred. At the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, the MP for Liverpool was on the line talking to the Prime Mnister through the open door of the carriage. Stephenson's Rocket approached on the line and as the MP tried to climb into the carriage to get out of the way, and as he grabbed the open door of the carriage it swung out throwing him into the path of the oncoming train. There is a memorial on the line where it happened.
Bless you MM for your last move which will allow a move away from the Norf
Newton-le-Willows is the station for Haydock Park
I can use a Piggott's Pass for a one-off move to any racecourse of my choice
So I'm going to plump for
Plumpton
As we're horsing around outside London, can I sugest Derby Castle...
A short ride then to Minorca.
:o
Are there any railways on the Balearic Islands???
Oh that Minorca... In that case Bungalow...
This is obviously a concerted strategy to discombobulate a poor Southerner who is frightfully lorst in the wilderness and islands of the northern climes and not knowing whether your utterances are fact or fiction.
In fact I am so befuddled that my next move is to
Maithwaite
Quote from: Pendy on July 12, 2012, 02:32:36 PM
This is obviously a concerted strategy to discombobulate a poor Southerner who is frightfully lorst in the wilderness and islands of the northern climes and not knowing whether your utterances are fact or fiction.
In fact I am so befuddled that my next move is to
Maithwaite
If I may say so, that is a typical comment from a discombobulated poor Southerner who, if in doubt of the geographical sublimities of the North, will always add 'thwaite' to a simple word like Mai, which as everyone knows is French for May. :evil: :smiley-laughing:
will someone just say Moaningtown Croissant and bring this thread to an end....
Quote from: newportnobby on July 12, 2012, 02:37:26 PM
If I may say so, that is a typical comment from a discombobulated poor Southerner who, if in doubt of the geographical sublimities of the North, will always add 'thwaite' to a simple word like Mai, which as everyone knows is French for May. :evil: :smiley-laughing:
Not true! Maithwaite Station exists, here is a link to it
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Maithwaite (http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Maithwaite)
Drat - foiled again by the dastardly Pendy ::)
Mind you, everyone knows that TTTE was written by the Rev Awdrey who was born in Hampshire so what would he know :evil:
Quote from: newportnobby on July 12, 2012, 03:24:51 PM
Drat - foiled again by the dastardly Pendy ::)
Mind you, everyone knows that TTTE was written by the Rev Awdrey who was born in Hampshire so what would he know :evil:
Indeed, which must allow me to play :
Knapford
Quote from: newportnobby on July 12, 2012, 03:24:51 PM
Drat - foiled again by the dastardly Pendy ::)
Mind you, everyone knows that TTTE was written by the Rev Awdrey who was born in Hampshire so what would he know :evil:
Oooooh - I can't let you get away with a remark like that that about the county where I live!!
So just like Worzel Gummidge (on one of my good days, people have remarked that I look like him), I'm putting my Angry Head on - be afraid, be very afraid, your kettles will be on their way to Woodhams, before you know it and replaced by worms :evil:
Worzel Gummidge Heads #1 - Handsome Head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOTNAe3j7Bs#)
http://worzelgummidge.webs.com/ (http://worzelgummidge.webs.com/)
Hah, Worzel!
I laugh in the face of your threat as all my kettles were purchased from Woodhams and restored to full (in some cases, poor) running order.
Actually, I think I could have saved money if I had gone to Woodhams and got the full size stuff ::)
Anyway, that's not the point.
The only worms I have are in the garden (unless the Doc tells me different :o), but I believe my garden worms are just like your mutli coloured ones i.e. if you cut them in half both ends still wriggle around.
Thinking about it, I do have 3 green worms in the house but if I bisect them only one half still wriggles ;)
Sticking to this fictional vein, did Trumpton have a station ???
Quote from: SymonC on July 12, 2012, 03:54:49 PM
Quote from: newportnobby on July 12, 2012, 03:24:51 PM
Drat - foiled again by the dastardly Pendy ::)
Mind you, everyone knows that TTTE was written by the Rev Awdrey who was born in Hampshire so what would he know :evil:
Indeed, which must allow me to play :
Knapford
Oh Lord, we are so offside that we have come back round and are not just opeining up teh diagonals but a 5th dimension!
Tidmouth
Quote from: AndyGif on July 12, 2012, 03:11:39 PM
will someone just say Moaningtown Croissant and bring this thread to an end....
I currently don't see a way back to the Northern Line, or I would!
Quote from: REGP on July 12, 2012, 05:44:19 PM
Sticking to this fictional vein, did Trumpton have a station ???
No it didn't but there was a train in Chigley!
There was a station in Postman Pat though so I'll play
Greendale
Only one route from Greendale, and that's to hogwarts then catching the connection back to
Kings Cross
Alighting at platform 9 3/4 thus bringing us back to London. ;D
No off sides, normal play now resumed.
Seven Sisters
My next move
Cheshunt
A spectacular move by OwL sweeping across the landscape from East to West, recreating the Pendolo move that was first introduced to the UK in 1926 by Giuseppe Pendolino. The move is so named because the instigator is 'swinging to both sides'. But has he left his soft underbelly exposed?
Never! I have considered the move against the 'soft underbelly' so to consolidate my position from Cheshunt against the Famed counter 'Findley Move' (introduced by Sir Cedric Findley in 1927 to sway the overwhelming Pendolo move) I'm heading north towards Cambridge but off I get at
Audley End
Quote from: OwL729 on July 12, 2012, 09:01:09 PM
Only one route from Greendale, and that's to hogwarts then catching the connection back to
Kings Cross
Alighting at platform 9 3/4 thus bringing us back to London. ;D
No off sides, normal play now resumed.
Ha! But you decared no offsides, and Audley End is definitely offside, being as it is nowhere near the London network.
I think Owl, your soft underbelly is not only exposed, but being tickled Gently with a big ostrich feather while you are in nidd.
Cockfosters
Audley end tethers on the brink of London so decided by it's close proximity to Stanstead Airport (better known as LONDON Stanstead :smiley-laughing:)
The ostrich feather is now parried, and the briefly exposed Navel is back under the T-shirt as I head to
Ponders End
Quote from: OwL729 on July 12, 2012, 11:50:31 PM
(better known as LONDON Stanstead :smiley-laughing:)
if I was being nit-picky you would be heading off for a spell in Spoon, as it is London Stansted. Stanstead is on the borders of Hampshire and West Sussex! But if you went into Spoon it would still leave your underbelly exposed with this tickling by ostrich feathers which would overexcite certain contributors of this forum. So your move to Ponders End is accepted - if only for the health of our members
Anyone remember the radio series 'Ponders End'? I can just about remember some of the characters, there was that guy that worked for the National Trust, Colin Dale who had a crush on the very macho brickie Rick Mansworth who was in love with the 'lady of ill repute' Barbi Can who was having a steamy liaison with Arnos Grove the MP who was secretly dating Victoria from the railway on Mondays and Bo' Church on Wednesdays.
Heron Quays (which was a spin-off series from 'Ponder End' which sank without trace)
I'm afraid the postman has called with another sack of mail, postmarked North Wales. If it is what I think it is, I'm going to be away off the game for a while.
London Stansted my arse. That's a "Ryanair" airport that is... They make you think you're going to London and then you find out it takes the best part of a day to get to London. Birmingham is almost the same distance. That was just good marketing... Nobody would be wanting to fly to "Stansted East Anglia" airport, unless they lived in Cambridge.
Yours,
Mr Angry of
Pimlico
Hmm... My passport seems to be out of date so I can only get as far as Victoria...
Quote from: Mustermark on July 13, 2012, 12:55:04 PM
London Stansted my arse.
At least it's not Luton
Or Prestwick.. 'Glasgow Prestwick' is really pushing it. I guess calling it "God knows where in the middle of emptiness airport" wouldn't sell. The roads to it even have signposts giving only other road numbers because there is *nothing*.
Pendy, are you still buried underthe sack of mail? Anything enlightening?
I was catching up with Mrs Nesbit's blog yesterday. Apparently, Friday 13th was fine for her but the lady upstairs had a tumble down the stairs. A twisted ankle is the result. There is dispute over whether the trip was caused by a black cat or some gin.
I hear Raymond Baxter's tones coming across the ether... "And after a tense period of dispute over the extent of the boundary of old London town, the game has entered a steady contemplative phase. This is more like chess with everyone looking five moves ahead. Everyone knowing that, at this stage in such a surreal game, anything might happen".
Thus, with much trepidation and cautious optimism...
Marylebone
i received this letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Sir Patrick,
On tuning in recently, I was appalled by the torrent of filth with constant references to big bang, stellar wind and a retrograde motion. Even worse, I heard one of your handsome young men stating that his ten inch one gives a much better performance when he is probing heavenly bodies.
It is by far and away the most disgusting episode of the 'Sky at Night' that I have ever watched.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis
P.S. Please would you ask your handsome young man to send me his phone number?"
:smiley-laughing: Very illuminating. A mod will be along shortly to delete your post, I'm sure
What the heck - Mrs. Trellis sounds like my kinda girl :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: newportnobby on July 14, 2012, 08:59:48 PM
What the heck - Mrs. Trellis sounds like my kinda girl :smiley-laughing:
:smiley-laughing:
With week-end engineering works over, it is back onto the tracks.
Given that the Olympic torch is passing through my town today, it has to be
Kensington Olympia
And as we are in the area, let's visit Mrs Nesbit at Malvern Court...
South Kensington
Quote from: Pendy on July 06, 2012, 06:04:42 PM
I've just had another letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales. She writes:
"Dear Pampers
The recent reference to 'Eschers folly' reminds me of Prince Charles referring to a building as being like a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend".
He has obviously not seen the size of the boil on Mrs Nesbitt's nose. With her leathery skin and enormous buttocks, it makes her look even more like a rhinoceros.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
Quote from: Mustermark on July 06, 2012, 06:44:19 PM
Yes, i can see the animosity that Mrs Trellis has for poor dear Mrs Nesbit has not abated in the slightest.
I will concede that with her rotund rear end, Mrs Nesbit has been likened to a Weeble.
The boil i believe is due to lanced a week on Wednesday.
Apparently the procedure to lance Mrs Nesbit's boil has gone well. Her blog says that they didn't let her keep what came out like they did when she had her appendix removed. She posted an 'after' photo of the nose. I do not believe her appearance will be very much improved as she still refuses to get her nasal hair and top lip waxed.
Whose move is it anyway?
Penge East
Kilburn High Road
Quote from: Mustermark on July 18, 2012, 03:16:01 PM
Kilburn High Road
Not this close to the Olympics. I move to Hanger Lane.
Well! It can only be...
ELEPHANT & CASTLE
Ooh, I say. :o A bold move from Tadpole there, opening up a diagonal to the West. But the Northern Line link could mean misery for some. The next move could be crucial. :-\
There is a box on the platform. It is brightly coloured and smells of Happy Meal. There is a door to the West and a passageway leads North.
Time passes, you wait.
A little dwarf throws an axe at you..
Quote from: EtchedPixels on July 18, 2012, 04:29:16 PM
A little dwarf throws an axe at you..
:smiley-laughing:
I duck. The axe misses and I give the dwarf the finger...
Pick up the happy meal...
Penge West
A robust defense there from the Grandmaster. Very subtly opening Moreton's 2nd parallel, more normally played with North London Rules in which contraflows are inverted, and to avoid Triangulation, and Dollis Hill will be wild.
Since Dollis has not yet been wild in the game...
Dollis Hill
Quantum Outrage Factor prediction: approximately 7,284 or 3.726 IOU* depending on just how many more moves there are in the game.
*International Outrage Units were devised to try to level the playing fields across the globe in terms of outrage and reaction. As Sir Isaac Newton said, every reaction has an equal and opposite over-reaction. (I believe he was commonly misquoted in the scientific press). It is commonly understood that a 30 minute rant from, say, someone from a Mediterranean culture would be the equivalent of a tut from someone from Surrey. Thus, the IOU was developed to allow the description of outrage in relatively absolute terms. Ref: "An Outrage Scale for the Common Man", J. Morn. Cresc. Phys. and Psych. Acta, 1968, Vol 4783, pp 698-985.
Quote from: Pendy on July 18, 2012, 03:13:37 PM
Penge East
And where exactly is Penge East? Not marked on the Marauder's Map I have...
Is she at the shops perhaps? Or at work? She is difficult to track down since she removed the anklet.
Quote from: Mustermark on July 18, 2012, 05:35:56 PM
And where exactly is Penge East? Not marked on the Marauder's Map I have...
Is she at the shops perhaps? Or at work? She is difficult to track down since she removed the anklet.
What an outrageous comment and as I come from Surrey, I have to say . . .
Tut
Penge Common
Agreed... she is a bit Common.
Tut
I've just had a letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Mr Motion,
I've just joined a local Poetry society and it has inspired me to write my first poem which is below:
There was a young lady from Slough,
Who last year developed a cough,
She wasn't to know,
It would last until now,
Let's hope the poor girl will pull through.
What do you think?
Mrs Trellis"
Well - you can't accuse Mrs. Trellis of sitting on the fence.
Her syntax requires some work also, although if she had no syn she wouldn't pay the tax.
I would suggest she forgo the limerick and maybe concentrate on sonnets.
I agree in large measure, Nobby, re syn-tax. Though her use of assonance is quite breathtaking. But more suited, perhaps, to the sonnets.
Im going to play the Morgantown Crescent reversing loop rule which ends us up at Radyr.
Interesting... I haven't seen that played since the 1998 Armitage Shanks Bowl.
Machynlleth.
I use dai biffas third law and give you Cogan!
Alma?
No Steve! :D
Richard
Ffridd Gate
Southwark
A newish station and close to where Wellington defeated Napolean, no not the one in Belgium, but a real winner.
H.
Southwark is a beautiful station as is
Westminster
Quote from: Pendy on July 19, 2012, 07:18:52 AM
Southwark is a beautiful station as is
Westminster
Of course that's where the Houses of Parliament are.
(Have you noticed that whoever you vote for the Government always gets into power?)
Talking of the Government all this talk of HS2 to Birmingham was a front to deflect on the building of a new Underground line which has now been completed from Westminster to :
Mornington Crescent! ;D
Like the trespasser on the line, I never saw that one coming. A brilliant innovative move - congratulations! You win the Mornington Crescent disposable coffee cup inscribed with the name of our sponsors, Costa.
Speaking of a new tube line, has anyone tried the new "tourist line"?
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i36478 (http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i36478)
Malc
Quote from: Pendy on July 19, 2012, 07:37:42 AM
Like the trespasser on the line, I never saw that one coming. A brilliant innovative move - congratulations! You win the Mornington Crescent disposable coffee cup inscribed with the name of our sponsors, Costa.
Fantastic, I shall treasure my prize ;D
Anyone for a new game?
In celebration of the Olympic Football I'll start us off at
Wembley Park
I invoke the passport/ as far away from the olymics rule and go for Heathrow T1,2,3
Richard
SymonC, you will need to collect your prize from any branch of Costa . . you will find it left on a table outside.
London City Airport
(which also has step-free access from street to train)
Quote from: Pendy on July 19, 2012, 12:13:16 PM
SymonC, you will need to collect your prize from any branch of Costa . . you will find it left on a table outside.
London City Airport
(which also has step-free access from street to train)
I'll collect it tomorrow ;D
And from there to the Bank!
Richard
Quote from: B757-236GT on July 19, 2012, 12:18:28 PM
And from there to the Bank!
Richard
I can see you are on the ball today with a move to another station with step-free access from street to train.
Canary Wharf
And on to EmBANKment
Congratulations SymonC! Audacious and intelligent play. Wonderful to see such a thrilling end to the game.
I was forced to resort to "Eee, by 'eck" (23.6 LOU*).
Enjoy your Costa Cup.
* Lancastrian Outrage Units
This game, I gathered, is the McDonalds Happy Meal Challenge. The prize being a small plastic toy (out of its wrapper and coated with chicken nugget grease) and a box to keep it in. To be featured on a vacant table at a McDonalds near you. "Mmmm... I'm Lovin' It".
So in the spirit of audacity this early in the new game i am going for a move that should cause a tut in Surrey and kettles to be put on across the forum... Quantum outrage factor prediction of 1,350,526 IOU...
Dollis Hill
Tut Tut!
Harlesden
(named after the flapper dance of the same name and made infamous by Anton du Becton and former MP Ann Wimbledon on the TV series 'Sudbury come dancing')
Cunning...
But if you step on his toes it will make Charing Cross...
Then take them to the Hospital at Ealing Broadway.
Where he will face his Waterloo.
And meet his Hatch End.
I've had another note from a Mrs Trellis, she writes:
"Dear Mr Blatter,
I have been avidly reading your Mornington Crescent game and I noticed a picture of an owl on it.
Mr Trellis and I are very fond of bird-watching. I fondly recall the time we set up a hide in Sainsbury's car-park to look at the Snowy Owl that was nesting in a tree above the store. Sadly it turned out to be nothing more than a carrier bag.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis
P.S. you can't go from Ffridd Gate to Quakers Yard, not unless you ask Mr Griffiths for a ride in his minibus"
Pendy,
You are BARKING !
Quote from: Jerry Howlett on July 21, 2012, 01:58:51 PM
Pendy,
You are BARKING !
No she's not >:(
It's Mrs. Trellis who's barking ;) ;D
Wot, really darn sarf, like Watford?
All I know is that Mrs Trellis's letters are postmarked North Wales. I think she may have knowledge of Etched Pixels.
Watford? - that's norf
I'm going back on the game now. The Barking move has put several players 'in the doghouse' and having seen a picture of one of Her Maj's corgis, it has to be
Imperial Woof (pronounced Wharf by humans)
It was Mrs Trellis who texted me to tell me to go to see my friend Stan more.
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 07:21:54 PM
It was Mrs Trellis who texted me to tell me to go to see my friend Stan more.
I was getting so fed up with texts from her like this "Ddap Pdmdw" etc that I told her I'd got a new mobile number and gave her your number instead!
Stanmore eh? According to Professor Harry Beck, without whom this game would not be possible, it is impossible to move from Stanmore to Carpenders Park as the lines are parallel. However his theory was trumped by a commuter who made the journey. Searching for an explanation, Beck then argued that in non-Euclidean space the parallel postulate does not apply and he thus came up with the amazing conclusion that London Underground was in hyperbollock space.
So I'm off to board the Meridian at
Greenwich
Either non-Euclidean space or the good Professor had temporarily forgotten the existence of the 142 bus, which connects Stanmore with Bushey & Oxhey, or you can alight sooner for a pleasant walk down Merry Hill to Carpenders Park. It also runs to somewhere that was once an Underground station and should be again in a few years:
Watford Junction
Quote from: Pendy on July 21, 2012, 05:37:37 PM
I'm going back on the game now.
That's one way to get the funds for the 'Bittern' :o
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 07:21:54 PM
It was Mrs Trellis who texted me to tell me to go to see my friend Stan more.
Problem is he lives with his Seven Sisters...
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 09:17:54 PM
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 07:21:54 PM
It was Mrs Trellis who texted me to tell me to go to see my friend Stan more.
Problem is he lives with his Seven Sisters...
and their Uncle : Bruce Grove
Quote from: newportnobby on July 21, 2012, 09:03:06 PM
Quote from: Pendy on July 21, 2012, 05:37:37 PM
I'm going back on the game now.
That's one way to get the funds for the 'Bittern' :o
:smiley-laughing:
Quote from: Pendy on July 21, 2012, 08:10:36 PM
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 07:21:54 PM
It was Mrs Trellis who texted me to tell me to go to see my friend Stan more.
I was getting so fed up with texts from her like this "Ddap Pdmdw" etc that I told her I'd got a new mobile number and gave her your number instead!
Yes she said something about what I thought was "losing an appendage" but I see what she meant now.
One has to try to decipher her texts like a code. e.g. for a letter j, you have to assume it could be j, k or l, and that a could be a, b or c, and so on. Thus a crossword solver app on my iPhone is invaluable.
Please, please, please do not give her my address. I cannot manage sack loads like you do.
Quote from: Pendy on July 21, 2012, 08:10:36 PM
Stanmore eh? According to Professor Harry Beck, without whom this game would not be possible, it is impossible to move from Stanmore to Carpenders Park as the lines are parallel. However his theory was trumped by a commuter who made the journey. Searching for an explanation, Beck then argued that in non-Euclidean space the parallel postulate does not apply and he thus came up with the amazing conclusion that London Underground was in hyperbollock space.
I believe that Professor Sir Harry Beck OBE, MBE, OMG refused to accept that buses actually ran on fixed routes and could travel freely not only in Euclidean space, but also the wrong way up a one-way street. The lack of rails making them exempt from the Laws of London Transport.
Buses aside, the theory put forward by Professors Hawking and Penrose in 1987 suggests that with long range quantum uncertainty, a tube train may pass through Stanmore and Carpender's Park simultaneously. The only problem with this theory being that it is indeed, as you suggest, hyperbollix.
Quote from: SymonC on July 21, 2012, 09:21:34 PM
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 09:17:54 PM
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 07:21:54 PM
It was Mrs Trellis who texted me to tell me to go to see my friend Stan more.
Problem is he lives with his Seven Sisters...
and their Uncle : Bruce Grove
And the trouble that always puts me off visiting Stan is that Uncle Bruce gets on my
Hackney Wick
And go and see your friend Rich Mond.
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 09:44:28 PM
Buses aside, the theory put forward by Professors Hawking and Penrose in 1987 suggests that with long range quantum uncertainty, a tube train may pass through Stanmore and Carpender's Park simultaneously. The only problem with this theory being that it is indeed, as you suggest, hyperbollix.
If one passes through Stanmore then I hope for everyone's sake that a large wormhole also opens up and swallows the buffer stop and the solid concrete wall behind it... Now if it had been Edgware then a hop into a parallel universe would have given you:
Bushey Heath
Quote from: edwin_m on July 21, 2012, 11:07:00 PM
If one passes through Stanmore then I hope for everyone's sake that a large wormhole also opens up and swallows the buffer stop and the solid concrete wall behind it...
Some commuters say that all tube trains pass into black holes
Quote from: newportnobby on July 21, 2012, 09:03:06 PM
Quote from: Pendy on July 21, 2012, 05:37:37 PM
I'm going back on the game now.
That's one way to get the funds for the 'Bittern' :o
At that rate, I'd probably be in a position to buy a Bittern by 2090. All this recent stuff on TV about bullet trains has meant that Bittern has slipped back down the pecking order behind the new fast worms. Would still like one in FGW dynamic lines livery.
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 09:44:28 PM
Please, please, please do not give her my address. I cannot manage sack loads like you do.
I could really do with another Eurostar on my layout and I know you have one. If you send it to me by express mail, I will ensure that Mrs Trellis does not get my copy of your address
Quote from: Pendy on July 22, 2012, 06:36:30 AM
I could really do with another Eurostar on my layout and I know you have one. If you send it to me by express mail, I will ensure that Mrs Trellis does not get my copy of your address
(Big booming Moderator's voice)
Come on, Pendy. You should know by now that blackmail is verboten on the NGF. Just because the fruitbat known as Mrs Trellis has obtained your address by perfidious means, this does not allow the browbeating of a fellow member in order to obtain said Eurostar. Please desist with immediate effect.
(Weasel-like holier-than-thou butter-wouldn't-melt-in my-mouth city banker girl voice)
You misunderstand sir :o, I'm not trying to blackmail the gentleman or try any sharp practice - that sort of thing just doesn't go on in the City. Just offering insurance against being spammed by fruitbats from North Wales.
P.S. have you had a visit from the Inland Revenue recently?
Quote from: Pendy on July 22, 2012, 06:36:30 AM
Quote from: Mustermark on July 21, 2012, 09:44:28 PM
Please, please, please do not give her my address. I cannot manage sack loads like you do.
I could really do with another Eurostar on my layout and I know you have one. If you send it to me by express mail, I will ensure that Mrs Trellis does not get my copy of your address
Sounds like a bargain to me!
In celebration of animals on the Underground!
http://www.animalsontheunderground.com/the-animals.html (http://www.animalsontheunderground.com/the-animals.html)
the next move is to
Caledonian Road
Rotherhithe the Flamingo!
Flamingo is also the name of the Gentleman's club in Rotherhithe from which Lord Winthrop-Peplum was ejected last week. Apparently he did not understand the do not touch signs. He was also once arrested for ignoring the do not walk on the grass signs at King's College, Cambridge. Apparently he never was good with following simple instructions.
In that case peckham rye. See if anyone gets the reason between them and if you cant your a plonker rodders.
Richard
Quote from: Mustermark on July 22, 2012, 05:48:26 PM
Apparently he never was good with following simple instructions.
I am Lord Winthrop-Peplum :-[
I had my suspicions!
funnily enough it was not when you wore your top hat and floral waistcoat to the Railwaymans Arms that gave it away, or when you asked for cucumber sandwiches with your pint of Wainwrights or even when you got your mate to swap the Wainwrights for a Pimms
. . .it was the way you bent your little finger whilst cramming pie and chips into your gob.
Ok yah
Drat - I have been rumbled :(
Are we still stuck at Peckham Rye? Seem to have lost track of the game! :)
Yes - we are stuck at Peckham Rye because it has put me in Nidd. This is the second of the turns that I am missing.
The BBC regret to annouce a delay to this game of Mornington crescent. This is due to industrial action by Mrs trelis. We hope to be able to run a service soon.
Quote from: B757-236GT on July 23, 2012, 09:08:28 AM
The BBC regret to annouce a delay to this game of Mornington crescent. This is due to industrial action by Mrs trelis. We hope to be able to run a service soon.
The BBC are pleased to report that the situation with Mrs Trelis has now been resolved and the next move is to :
Stratford International
I'm still stuck on the link between Peckham and Rotherhithe... And I'm sure it isn't just the number 381 bus.
I am currently watching Mrs Nesbit ranting about the evils of Living Statues. She is on a soap box at
Hyde Park Corner
Quote from: Mustermark on July 23, 2012, 11:52:24 AM
I'm still stuck on the link between Peckham and Rotherhithe... And I'm sure it isn't just the number 381 bus.
I am currently watching Mrs Nesbit ranting about the evils of Living Statues. She is on a soap box at
Hyde Park Corner
Mark, I fear the delay on your bus has been caused by a certain Miss Dollis Hill (spinster of that parish) and co founder of the Primrose hill knitting circle, from which Mrs Trellis was forcibly ejected last Tuesday.She has allegedly published a plot to seize the Olympic Flame as it passed the Peckham Library.
Enough to make you want to Hang er Lane.
I've just had an email from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Lord Coe,
I refute all allegations that I plotted to seize the Olympic Torch. I have no need of it as the 'Boots' battery operated torch that Mr Trellis gave me from Christmas in 1946 still works perfectly.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
From hanger lane the only move i can see is to wind our way down to Baker Street.
Well if we're now playing 'musical stations' lets try Warwick Avenue...
OK then, how about Gospel Oak.
Nellie the Elephant (& Castle)
The Pinner takes it all
The Long & Winding Latimer Road
Waterloo Sunset
Didn't Peter Gabriel do Sudbury Hill?
I believe that was the original but his good friend and backing vocalist Mrs Nesbit pursuaded him to change it to Solsbury during the recording.
Don't look back in Ongar
Anyone who had a (White) Hart (Lane)
Staying with the Kinks - Victoria
In which case spurred 8) on by White Hart lane it must be Blackhorse Road.
Close to the Edgeware - by Yes.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical "Underground" featuring all the songs listed above will be opening soon on Broadway!
Ealing Broadway!
I believe the New Vaudeville Band got off at Finchley Central around 1967
Malc
Do they know its Chigwell
Up the Watford Junction
By the rivers of Barbican
Les bicyclettes de Belsize
Squeeze -Up the Junction!
Squeeze - Up The Junction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQciegmLPAo#)
Ah but which one? Clapham or Willesdon? If using sods fourth law one can lead to a move to Mornington crescent but the other means a move to Pimlico.
I assumed it was a reference to SymonC's Watford Junction and it then follows that we will bypass Pimlico and will be singing the Moody Blues...
Nights in White City.
Quote from: B757-236GT on July 24, 2012, 10:48:19 PM
Ah but which one? Clapham or Willesdon? If using sods fourth law one can lead to a move to Mornington crescent but the other means a move to Pimlico.
Definately Clapham. :music: I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham :music:
(White man in) Hammersmith (Palais)
The theme from 'Rotherhide'...
Bat out of Hillingdon
The Seekers:
Morningtown (Cresent) Ride!!!
Paul
That was a sneaky move - didn't think it was possible to go from Meat Loaf to the Seekers.
Congratulations on winning.
Your prize is the Mornington Crescent lightweight salt and pepper travel set. Perfect for journeys when you don't want to carry a heavy pepper mill and salt cellar. You will need to collect the sachets from any branch of Wetherspoons.
Well they're both in the discount section at HMV so I thought it worth the risk...
I shall treasure the prize. (can a pepper mill be used for n-gauge balasting I wonder?)
Anyway I guess I have to start the next game, so lets start at the very beginning - Liverpool Road (Manchester)
Congratulations PLD, i think we all have egg on our faces letting such a simple move catch us out. Exhilarating play. And what a useful prize, ideal for picnics. The Wetherspoons Condiment Trophy really is a prestigious event from one of our top sponsors. You should be proud.
A pepper mill may indeed be used for ballasting, and it just depends on whetheer you want a clean ballast (white pepper) or dirty ballast (black pepper) as to what you fill it with. I recommend one of the really big ones they use in Italian restaurants to get good coverage of a large area. You can also use left over tagliatelle as lineside cable trunking and and old squeezy washing up bottle as a water tower, as demonstrated in my favourite Blue Peter by Valerie Singleton in 1967. Of course, since then Great Western sticky back plastic has been a huge boon in terms of realism... Just search on YouTube for a how to improve Valerie's water tower tutorial video.
As a tribute to Ms Singleton let's go to London, W1A 4WW, at Wood Lane.
When using the Wetherspoons Condiment Trophy for ballasting purposes, it is always best to have a huge handkerchief (or Mrs. Trellis's underwear as a poor substitute) to hand, and it is also recommended all windows are taped up to avoid flying shards of glass incommoding passers-by. If you are at all elderly, the wearing of incontinence pants is also de rigeur.
From Wood Lane, the obvious move is to Forest Hill...
and then to Barking
Quote from: SymonC on July 25, 2012, 01:28:44 PM
and then to Barking
and if you are barking you might go to Stratford for the olympics
Just had another letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, she writes:
"Dear Mr Portillo,
May I say how pleased I am that OwL has returned to the game. Without him it is a bit like Hamlet without the Balcony Scene
Your sincerely
Mrs Trellis"
Whoohoo, Owl. You've pulled :evil:
I have had a phone call from an outraged Mrs Trellis. She says:
"Dear Captain Peacock,
I am outraged about the allegations that I am romantically entangled with OwL. I have been happily married to Mr Trellis for many years. We do like owls and birdwatching and Mr Trellis has joined the North Wales Naturists club. He often comes back full of excitement about the great tits that he has seen.
Yours indignantly
Mrs Trellis"
Finchley Central , ten long stations from etc etc..
Paddington, on the Circle line. Change here for the Bakerloo Line, Hammersmith and City Line, and mainline British Rail services to Reading, the West Country and the Cornish Riviera. Mind the gap.
Are we playing the Olympic closure rules?
Yes, but I have one of the magic green cards so I can still get us to Stratford International...
Advanced warning !.
Mornington crescent is to be closed to the public this weekend as it is now the designated emergency treatment centre for the Olympic three legged, egg and spoon race.
Please advise Mrs Trellis.
Can I suggest (egg) White City or will that put me in Spoon?
Quote from: edwin_m on July 27, 2012, 11:53:05 AM
Can I suggest (egg) White City or will that put me in Spoon?
It will put you in Spoon, and you'd be forced to wear a shell suit :evil:
That's a yolk I'll have to bear, or I'll be accused of being chicken.
Do I escape at Hatch End?
Quote from: edwin_m on July 27, 2012, 08:18:48 PM
That's a yolk I'll have to bear, or I'll be accused of being chicken.
Do I escape at Hatch End?
Only if you scramble
Not surprisingly, Mrs Nesbit had a lot to tell me when she Skyped me today. Not only has she been sampling the beer at her local but she has been serving behind the bar. Apparently one of the bar staff was off, having injured herself in the Caingorms, which sounds awfully painful. Anyway, service was a bit too slow for the rather impatient old biddy. She marched round the other side of the bar and pulled herself a pint and proceeded to start serving other customers. She took food orders and served cocktails, and now has a part time job. Not that she needs the money, but she will be filling in every evening until the young girl gets back on her feet. Mrs Nesbit did get in trouble with the pub landlord though... And I told her that it is frowned upon to dance on tables until your shift is over. She went to visit the girl who broke her ankle to deliver a Get Well Slowly card. Nearest tube stop...
Sloane Square
I'm not surprised about Mrs Nesbit - she could not hold her drink. Was she dancing to the tune of 'Hands, Neasden Boomps-a Daisy?'
Neasden
Quote from: Pendy on August 02, 2012, 09:26:11 AM
I'm not surprised about Mrs Nesbit - she could not hold her drink. Was she dancing to the tune of 'Hands, Neasden Boomps-a Daisy?'
Neasden
I believe it was that to the tune of Abba
Waterloo
Quote from: EtchedPixels on August 02, 2012, 09:44:21 AM
I believe it was that to the tune of Abba
Waterloo
We've already had 'The Pinner takes it all' so the next move is to
(Dancing) Queensway
Aargh - not musical stations again...
hopefully we can end that with The Monkies - Last Train to Chigwell?
Quote from: PLD on August 02, 2012, 02:25:35 PM
Aargh - not musical stations again...
hopefully we can end that with The Monkies - Last Train to Chigwell?
Time flies by when I'm the driver of a train, speeding out of trumpton with a cargo of cocaine..
Time Flies By... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNMTa7Yd3E#)
and after that it had better be Customs House 8)
Hampton Court
(in honour of the Bradley Wiggins)
Mrs Nesbit was also regailing me with a story about meeting up with Lord Peppers, who has been stirring up trouble. Peppers bumped into Mitt Romney at a green room reception and as a bit of a lark told him that London wasn't ready for the Olympics. Peppers and Boris were having a good old laugh about it at the pub down the road from the Olymipics after Boris had been at Hyde Park telling the world what an arse Romney is. Apparently Romney will believe anything. It seems someone told him he should be president... And he believed them! Mrs Nesbit had joined Peppers and Boris for a pint or two of the Porter at The Bow Bells. I think she has a soft spot for Boris. She tells me he is a nice young man, and he was "so brave" when he was stuck on the zip wire. She recommends The Bow Bells for the good beer and pub food menu. Nearest tube stop...
Bow Road.
This Mrs Nesbit is a bit of a lush as well as a gossip.
Maybe she should try the Doodle Bar in Battersea where she can scribble her gossip on the walls
Nearest tube
South Kensington
I am reminded of one of her less savoury scribblings
"Life is like being a hair on a toilet bowl..........sooner or later you get peed off"
Quote from: newportnobby on August 02, 2012, 09:35:02 PM
I am reminded of one of her less savoury scribblings
"Life is like being a hair on a toilet bowl..........sooner or later you get peed off"
I'm sure I saw that on scratched on the door of the toilets along with 'If you can read this, then you are sitting on what I have shat' at
Kensington Olympia
Are all these moves allowed as we are only allowed one Mrs and unless Mrs trellis was put on a free tranfer that rule is being broken and whats a game without rules, thats right pointless :)
Richard
Mrs Trellis is on her holidays in Rhyl (which is why the postman in my area is breathing a huge sigh of relief as his trolley is not overflowing)
Good job you reminded me about rules because I'm going to use the Baseball variation where because I am making my third move on the trot (without any other moves being made) then it is 'three strikes and you're in Nidd'
Baron's Court and you are all in Nidd!
Embankment (none of you can move because you are still in Nidd)
Camden Town (you're still in Nidd but will come out after my next move)
Mornington Crescent!
Oh, I say. Not fair. Ref!? Come on Ref, where were you? Got your glasses on?
I want to see a replay.
Quote from: Pengy on August 02, 2012, 11:32:47 PM
Baron's Court and you are all in Nidd!
Embankment (none of you can move because you are still in Nidd)
Camden Town (you're still in Nidd but will come out after my next move)
Mornington Crescent!
Hmmm, it is amazing when you get to see the replay in slow motion. All this high tech that we bring to the game these days. In my day you were offside if the ref said so.
Fair play Pengy. I concede my challenge. You won that square, if not particularly fair.
Still in the Doodle Bar writing Lord Peppers' phone number under one or two of these 'requests'.
South Kensington.
Actually the key moves happened when you all got distracted about the graffiti and I was able to make two consecutive moves without reply. So I checked on the rules and found that if I were to make a third consecutive move then you would all be in Nidd! A bit sneaky but just about in the spirit of the game.
I'm going to join you in the Doodle Bar (http://www.thedoodlebar.com/ (http://www.thedoodlebar.com/)) for a gin and lime or two
As it ish (hic!) pretty mush equidishtant from other tube shtationsh my nexsht move ish
Shloane Shquare
ooh dear - why ish the room shpinning round and why are there two of you, have you been shpiking my drinkssssssss.
zonk
Zzzzzzzzzzz
Oh dear Pengy. That sounds like a Peppers trick to me. Do you remember an older sleazy looking chap with fat cheeks and round glasses? Did you wake up at his tube stop? We had best come to look for you at Westminster.
Quote from: Mustermark on August 03, 2012, 12:34:56 PM
Do you remember an older sleazy looking chap with fat cheeks and round glasses?
Yes and I thought it was you!
Acton Central
Is Acton unique in the UK by having a North, South, East, West and Central station? What is so special about this place that it has five stations?
Quote from: Pengy on August 03, 2012, 12:53:29 PM
Acton Central
Is Acton unique in the UK by having a North, South, East, West and Central station? What is so special about this place that it has five stations?
It hasn't got five stations - it's got 6: you missed Acton Town!
I guess there just so many people wanting to leave the place, and their so desperate to get out they don't care which direction they head in??
From Action Central, I'll suggest an actual 5 Station combo 'Ruslip'
Quote from: Pengy on August 03, 2012, 12:53:29 PM
Is Acton unique in the UK by having a North, South, East, West and Central station? What is so special about this place that it has five stations?
Lot of people wanting to escape ?
I am wondering what the most stations per head of population is and wondering if that might be Porthmadog (Network rail, WHR/Ffestiniog Harbour Station , WHHR Station, Minffordd shared)
Quote from: EtchedPixels on August 03, 2012, 02:20:38 PMI am wondering what the most stations per head of population is and wondering if that might be Porthmadog (Network rail, WHR/Ffestiniog Harbour Station , WHHR Station, Minffordd shared)
Satistically beaten by the various station that actually serve no resident population at all, such as those junction stations built purely as interchanges, and those built solely to to serve special/irregular traffic such as the various race courses and the Butlins Holiday Camps.
Kempton Park racecourse station used to be race days only but now it has a regular service.
From Ruislip to Shepherds Bush Market (which used to be Shepherds Bush and caused confusion with the other Shepherds Bush)
Yes, they often got into crook-fights over the rights to the shrubbery.
Staying with the vegetation - Burnt Oak.
Kew Gardens
Wimbledon Common.
That should see me clear up in this game (with the help pf the Wombles).
H.
Clapham Common
Quote from: Pengy on August 04, 2012, 06:45:10 AM
Clapham Common
The best thing about Cla'am Junction is that there are lots of lines out of there to escape on.
And a fast service back to . . . . .
Wimbledon (for the tennis, tram and underground).
H.
That is your second consecutive move to the Wimbledon area, H. Is Wimbledon one if your favourite places? Granted, there is much to see there - railway wise.
North Pole junction
Quote from: Pengy on August 04, 2012, 07:10:50 AM
Is Wimbledon one if your favourite places?
Certainly not. But there are four Wimbledon stations, so, back to
Wimbledon Chase(Mind you there are seven Acton stations; Central, Town, East, South, North, West and Main Line) ;D
H.
I'm searching for a rule to outlaw all of these Wimbledon moves . . .
In the meantime, it is back to the West London Line with the new station
Imperial Wharf
Okay, just a couple of stops up the line to
Olympia
for the Great British Beer Festival (next week) and also as a celebration about the Team GBs exploits at the Olympics 2012.
Now that's a gold medal winning move.
H.
Heathrow Terminal 4. For those who want to escape the olympics.
Richard
London City Airport on the DLR
It's a closer quicker escape and very handy if you've got a ticket to an event in the Olympic park.
H.
Mudchute
which is sadly a lot less interesting than it sounds
And a south move out of no-where by the OwL in a very Montgomery-esque move:
Caterham!
In Honour of the Yorkshire Lass done good, may I dirert us onto Sheffield Supertram and stop off at
'Sheffield Arena/Don Valley Staduim'
Arlesey
Nearest station to Victoria Pendletons home town.
I've had a note from a Mrs Trellis, she writes
"Dear Mr Trump,
I've often found it frustrating that buy-one-get-one free offers only seem to apply to items that I don't want. I've got an ingenious way to get a buy-one-get-one-free for items that I do want. I put one item in my trolley and hide the other about my person.
Unfortunately a store detective followed a trail of tomatoes that were dropping from my undercarriage
The view from my dormitory window is not too bad and I will be back home soon
Yours sincerely
Mrs Trellis.
HM Prison, Askham Grange"
Deviation. Youd never get sent to prison for that now.
um i think im going to use the bonus points ugrade and go to
Nepliget (get out of that one)
Richard
Oh dear, we seem to have been derailed. So, to get us back on track . . . .
Cockfosters
(It's the end of the line and I once lived there)
H.
My Little Book of Mornington Crescent recipes says that to make Cockfosters, you can folllow any recipe for Coq ay Vin, but substitute lager for wine.
And for desert...
Notting Hill Gateau
washed down with a glass of
Canada Water
I think i might prefer a glass of Pinner Noir.
. . . to accompany your East Ham sandwiches
Cheers for the drink, bottoms up and down the
Hatch End.
H.
I have been picking the leaves out of my Shepherd's Bush Pie. :-[
. . . followed by a nice desert at Pudding Mill Lane
Much prefer an Eton mess :food:
Quote from: newportnobby on August 11, 2012, 01:53:08 PM
Much prefer an Eton mess :food:
An uneaten mess is even better
. . . and a Mornington Croissant even better!
Mornington Crescent.
Aussie joke...
What's the best way to Cockfosters?
'Serve it warm mate'
so I'm off to Alice Springs...
Quote from: Pengy on August 11, 2012, 01:31:15 PM
. . . followed by a nice desert at Pudding Mill Lane
Having been at the nearby 'Lympic park on Thursday in weather officially described as "Scorchio", desert is about right.
Quote from: edwin_m on August 11, 2012, 06:25:31 PM
Quote from: Pengy on August 11, 2012, 01:31:15 PM
. . . followed by a nice desert at Pudding Mill Lane
Having been at the nearby 'Lympic park on Thursday in weather officially described as "Scorchio", desert is about right.
The Fast Show - Scorchio!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMUAd7OJc8#)
Quote from: Pengy on August 11, 2012, 03:48:22 PM
. . . and a Mornington Croissant even better!
Mornington Crescent.
Think I deserve an 'assist' there :claphappy:
Quote from: dr deltic on June 25, 2012, 11:29:11 PM
Christie done it.
I thought it was the policeman wot dunnit, or am I on the wrong track? :D
Send Sherlock to find out from
Baker Street
Mornington Crescent is the tube station next to Rillington Place..........infamous for John Reginald Christie
Ah, the Studebaker defence, have not seen that in a while............
OK, I'll reverse from Farringdon Road to sidings at Aldgate East Street, then call...........
Becontree.........
Ha, you were not expecting THAT, were you!!
Wot's all this then - a bl*****g Cockney knees - up?
Strewth guv , send for the Sweeney!
My old man said follow the van... :D
PS: it has been said that St John 's Wood (Tube station), is the only
one on the tube network which does not contain any of the
letters in the word "mackerel".
Perhaps those in the know can confirm or not.
Quote from: Agrippa on January 26, 2013, 11:48:40 PM
Wot's all this then - a bl*****g Cockney knees - up?
Strewth guv , send for the Sweeney!
My old man said follow the van... :D
PS: it has been said that St John 's Wood (Tube station), is the only
one on the tube network which does not contain any of the
letters in the word "mackerel".
Perhaps those in the know can confirm or not.
Depends whether you re making a distinction between the tube lines or the Underground at large. If the latter, Northwood on the Metropolitan doesn't...
Quote from: Agrippa on January 26, 2013, 11:48:40 PM
PS: it has been said that St John 's Wood (Tube station), is the only
one on the tube network which does not contain any of the
letters in the word "mackerel".
Perhaps those in the know can confirm or not.
Not any more as Hoxton was opened in 2010. Hoxton is special because it is the only station that does not contain any of the letters of the word 'badger' or any of the letters of 'mackerel'. Pimlico is the only other station that does not contain any of the letters of 'badger'