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Damn, too slow... Stepney Green to open and Oranges and Lemons loop.
Charing Cross, being the station nearest St Martins (Martin-in-the-Fields)
Bow Church praying someone has some turquoise podumes!
Hey, I needed that! [Shakes fist at BtD]
Um, Shored- no, not enough LV... King's Cr- no, that'll put me in Spoon... Periva- no... pass, dammit, pass!
St Pauls being the nearest to Old Bailey
Ah-ha! As I currently have 4.5 turquoise podumes after avoiding the Kanskiy, I can ghost to Praed Street.
Pass.
Very good Tuj, but you forgot the Cromwell Bypass Leap. I therefore collect a wealth of grey podumes at New Bond Street
Whence to Dollis Hill
[Prune] I assume that those of us with pacemakers are still exempt from attack by the Cromwell Bypass Leap, or was that changed in the Health Act of '94?
[ZK] '95 actually, but otherwise acurate. Dollis Hill and damn you!
Hillis Doll, invoking a temporary Boardman's.
Indeed! Extremely temporary! Dollis Hill.
Dollis Hill Are we nearly there yet?
Not until I move extravagantly towards Dollis Hill, and I can't help feeling someone owes us a move.
I feel, Ms Keeper, that you got us verily into this mess, and verily should the burden lay on your shoulders to get us out again. I shall Dollis Hill once more, before I feel obliged to steal your sienna tokens
If I could suggest anything but Dollis Hill I'd gladly help. And keep your mitts off my tokens, it took me months to earn that last one.
Dollis Hill... Maelberg Variance up 3/8ths... nearly there.
Right then, you give me no choice. Neasden it is, with one sienna token swiped from ZK for causing all the cafuffle in the first place.
I plead insanity.
Nonsense. If you were insane you wouldn't be sane enough to know that pleading was required. Regents Park, raiding ZK's obvious Home while he's out, for one silver, one teak and one osmium token.
Fine, but on the King James principal I'm claiming the teak one back, and while I'm about it, on to Mansion House
Green Park as I'm in a genial mood. Oh, and a couple of ash tokens for me, I think.
It is nice to play with people who know what they're doing - I've seen some amateurs on The Weakest Link, really, they just keep shouting Bank all the time. No style.
[ZK] Chuckles... Was that a move, or just a passing social snobbery?
Bank! forced
Oh alright, we'll take it as a move... Rayners Lane
Covent Garden. JLE, have you nicked my cadmium tokens too? I can't seem to lay my hands on them.
No, that was me, I was feeling sneaky, and you weren't looking... Osterley. Obvious I know, but it's late...
Hammersmith!
You swine! Erm... Maida Vale, putting at least three players in spoon.
You'll never spoon me! Er, put me in spoon, rather. Aldwych using the Old Lines principle. It is almost Remembrance Sunday, after all.
[AP] Sorry, I'm all in a quandry. Am I in spoon?
No, I think you're alright. I played Maida Vale too close to Remembrance Sunday, and all the poppies have cancelled the spooning effect. Whitehall with a wreath and Nimrod playing in the background
In that case, Barons Court, calling to mind Sandy's Bona Crescent strategem of 1966.
Oooh, that allows me to sneak in a quick Hackney Wick. Remember 1959 MCWC?
[Boolbar] Ah, if you remember it, you weren't there. I remember Adlestrop, though. Highgate, cemeteries wild.
Cemetery Lane then, in deference to the great Inigo Sanchez, Mexican champion 1923.
I play a Bounding Gambit and opt for Belsize Park, hopefully with impunity.
Not with me around. Lancaster Gate with slate podumes towards Kentish Town.
Well, avoiding Kentish Town that leaves me tagging 2 green 'uns at Hampstead.
Advancing 3 podumes to Gospel Park, of the pewter variety (the podumes, not Gospel Park, although I did once craft a very attractive version out of aluminium for a modern art competition)
bzzzzt! Gospel Park doesn't exist!
It didn't sound right when I was typing it in. Gospel Oak, then, and you get all my sienna tokens, dang and blast you!
Oakwood and thanks for the tokens!
wafting in on an ambient westerly breeze, scattering a few crystal tokens over Zone 6 and landing neatly on the tropicana in Kew Gardens.
*OUCH*
*hands Chalky some Intimate Cream* Hanger Lane, claiming 2 crystal tokens for a Gaveston manoeuvre.
Not if I get there first! Gavestone Crescent
Perivale, airily.
Bushey, sniggering.
West Brompton, delicately.
Boston Manor, unusually.
Benfleet, stupidly.
Thanks ZK [I hadn't spotted the palm frond]. Hmmm .. time to don this false moustache and make a move on Woodside Park [invoking facial hair].
Facial hair eh? Well, I'll play Marx and move to Highgate then.
Then I don a false beard in the hopes that I'll be asked why I'm wearing a false nose and move to Smyrk's Road
The Smolny Institute, reversing.
Eek! Um, pass, until I can think my way round that one...
I shall come in with the trimmers and play Kensington Park
Ah, good one. Now well prepared with South Kensington
Kew - I've been waiting to play that one.
Borough. I haven't.
Damnation! Cornered at Balham.
Chesham - this isn't Balham.
Amersham - nor is this, but then you knew that.
Berkley Square - And let that be a lesson to you!
Berkley Square [sic]?? Hmmm - I think I'll pass on this one and spend some time examining the latest Underground map. PP - I hereby challenge your move!
Challenge my move? I think you'll find that it's perfectly legitimate if preceeded by two shams in a row! This was quite effectively deployed in the anniversary match of '22 whereby the player went on to win the game with a beltane twist!
As the song of the London Underground Railway Planning Sub-Committee tells us:
That certain night, the night we met,
There were projects abroad in the air;
There were navvies digging up the roads [an early reference to the 'cut-and-cover' technique]
And a station was planned for Berkeley Square.

I may be right, and I may be wrong
But I'm perfectly willing to swear
That those present voted by eight to three
to cancel the plans for Berkeley Square.


So Chalky's challenge is perfectly valid - sorry, PP.
Thank you Wol :-) ... wonderful singing, by the way.
OK PP - I don't want to come over all patronising-like but have you been playing the game called Mornington Crescent for very long?
Years actually. Of course i did come into the middle of this game and may have miscalculated the set of rules you are using. If the Stanislaus Basic rules are being used then I believe, despite Wol's eloquent and lyrical singing, that I am perfectly correct. If however, you are using the Kaminski revision of 1893, then I would be wrong, in which case I shal revise my move to Mudchute
Jolly good show. In my experience these Long Games often fly on the face of strict and rigorous adherence to one nominated ruleset. As the excitement unfolds then so does the action drift, organically, as it were, from one ruleset to the other. For instance, Kaminsski revisionists had their day back in June this year. For now, Stanislaus Basic appears to be driving this train, albeit tweaked by that Watling Street Variation which was forced through on the 11th anniversary of Black Wednesday as recently as September. Damn nearly caught me out, I can tell you!
OK - now for a move. I'm still sporting an extra eyebrow, so I shall attempt to be rid of it by exploring that Quex lateral, hence a cautious Bethnal Green.
I am afraid I cannot let that superficially cautious (but in reality audacious), move go unchallenged. You know as well as I do that the Quex lateral can only be explored when Grebblings' Impulse Function is at a sine value of minus 1. Putting things right with Colindale. Tsk!
Bank defiantly.
Rayners Lane, impulsively.
Epping, effervescently.
Buckhurst Hill, oddly.
Barking, loudly.
Wapping predictably.
Kings Cross slyly.
Mudchute, bizarrely.
Shepherd's Bush, Dairylea.
East Finchely, spurning the Dairylea in preference of Primula.
Alperton,seeing your Primula and raising a pack of Red Cow Triangles.
Waterloo sunset over La Vache Qui Rit. [Dazed - Laughing Cow, surely?]
Alexandra Palace past the man with the Kraft singles.
Euston Square, and throwing Philadelphia into the equation.
Camembert, Camembert, Cam-den Town.
Goodge Street
Notting Hill Gate, and don't forget the crackers!
Double Gloucester Road. I think it's a bit runnier than you'll like, sir.
Going out on a cheesy limb here - Chesham cheese.
Edam Court if we're into a dairy cycle
Red Leicester Square. Cycling further.
East Ham; different sources of protein.
Well, just to throw it open, I'll use a turquoise podumeto get to Limehouse.
Is that like a pimento?
Colindale- a well known cheese from Yorkshire. P.S. I sufa from dailysex, so excuse me if I mess up
Hoho - it seems the joker has arrived. I feel it may be just the moment to flourish a trump - Elephant & Castle!
Aaaaagggggghhhhhh! If it wasn't for the signalling problems at Finchley Road station (correct at time of going to press) I could have put you in Nid, Chalky with a dashing move to Baker Street. That would have taught you a lesson for the reckless trumping you have been doing. As it is I shall have to respond with a Royal leap to Victoria
In keeping, a 5-point turn to Royal Oak
Tsk!Tsk! ZK I fear that you have missed the point and fallen into PP's simple but fiendishly cunning trap.I believe, however, that I can retrieve the situation by using the Faraday Lightning Strike. (It's an old trick but it just might work). Onward to Bethnal Green
*feels a fool*
Chigwell hoping to cause some havock.....
Only if you're blond! I however am not, so the simple but cunning repost would be Lancaster Gate. Get out of that!
Bayswater. So there.
Hoping to make restitution with Barbican, and really rather think I will.
South Kenton, knipping Poisoned Pigeon.
After much deliberation, Salmon Street, avoiding a tricky zone change and invoking Rutherford's Defence.
Hmmmm time to fall back on Minskis "5th random step" and bring a BAKEWELL into play. Try that one for size!
Mmm, delicious. Bakewell - the thinking man's tart.

Great Portland Street.

[Pp] Sadly I'm not blonde. Heading towards St Paul's, but might nip across the brdge.
[Lib] I shall do it for you Zoar Street
Bank [and no playing in my beard]
Holborn, restoring some sense of normality.
Westferry removing it again.
BOSTON LODGE anyone???
I shall answer that with the Kaminski's Repost, raising his missing two fingers and going to Uxbridge on the diagonal. Handy as it has disabled access!
Goodge street where the lifts are out of order! HA!
And so to Hammersmith, where they aren't.
Goldhawk Road. Rather to easy to leave you straddled there, ZK. Go careful.
Covent Garden [my beard performs there regularly]
*on the MC equivalent of tiptoe* Bank! What is that technical term I'm looking for?
COPPICE LANE and gives you a free go!
Thanks widey. Will enhance my empire by taking Oxford Circuswhich means unless someone scuppers my plan world domination will soon be mine!
Ah well, then, here's that obliging spanner - Ruislip Gardens placing Zone 2 in spoon and power failure on the Northern Line north of Warren Street
Farringdon for your trouble
Well, just to stir up some pandemonium, Warren Street, lacking power and so spiking the SG coefficient.
Evil! I believe I can just avoid danger by hopping to Barbican. Fa la la la la, la la la la.
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