This is just the same as normal rules except the names of the stations are replaced with those on the picture "The Great Bear" by Simon Patterson.
And so it begins...
growse - Well, I suppose I should kick things off here with
Robert Maxwell
Chalky - and I s'pose I should take a ganders at the pic, r'else I'm stuffed
rab - I've tried tracking one down on the web, but to no avail. If anyone succeeds, let me know and I'll stick a link in the "flannel panel" above.
Ibid - Google image search doesn't reveal any legible ones I'm afraid... Meanwhile,
Gary Lineker
Wol -
Groucho Marx it always seemed a shame that Patterson did not manage to find interchanges that fit thematically on both the interchanging lines ...
snorgle - Couldn't we just make them up, or guess?
Margaret Thatcher!
rab - In which case
Isaac Hayes.
Chalky - In defensive mode with
Bobby Moore. Now, HE is definitely up there.
growse - I parry to
James Baker
Ibid - I definitely recall that
Vic Reeves was on it, oddly enough. Are we going with the make-em-up version then?
rab - [Ibid] Why not, sounds like the most fun I've had, since, erm, er...
John Kettley.
Grant -
Googie Withers which is quite painfull I'm told
Ibid - It could be very painful to be on the wrong end of a case of
Nobby Stiles...
rab - Leaving play wide open for
Wincey Willis
Chalky - Getting carried away with a reverse shunt into
Bob Carolgees .
Big mistake.
Ibid - Super lard. Oops, I'll try again.
Sue Pollard
rab -
Christopher Biggins * applause *
Ibid - Putting the boot in -
Alex Ferguson
Boolbar - I do have a readable JPEG of the Great Bear map. Anyone want me to email it to them so they can upload it somewhere ? Or shall I just play
Burt Kwouk ?
Bob the dog - (Playing from memory)
Jimmy Hill. Home at
Rod Stewart
snorgle - So we're aiming for Bogie?
Ibid -
Ernest Shackleton then.
Boolbar - Escaping down
Thirty Comedians Line to
Tony Hancock.
LotUS -
Zog I, home at
Lin Piao.
Ibid - Four Airedales. Blast, done it again.
Thor Heyerdahl
Boolbar - Which means I can run rings around you all and head to
Saturn.
Lib - Returning from a while away, will put my toe in the water with
Louis X
Ibid -
Colin Powell, declaring
here we go again
Inkspot - *
...and so with thanks to Boolbar... entering a bit late with
Kate Adie and declaring home naturally with St. David.
Boolbar -
Fawn Hall inverting the
snoods.
Lib - Using the lesser known
primary colour inversion and therefore trumping with
Eric the Red
rab - Hurtling towards
Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards (though not, admittedly, terribly fast).
Lib - I can't take it any longer. Putting us all out of our misery with
Humphrey Bogart
Audience -
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Lib*
This is the end of the line. There is no more.