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East Finchley with Fireworks. If my claculations are correct then this makes all green tokens wild and all other tokens must be forefitted........ But If I'm worng then I fear that I'm in Knib. Hmmmmmmm.
Alperton. Looks like knib, I'm afriad.
bzzzzzzzzzzt [Tuj] Are you allowed to go to Alperton again so soon?
[Tuj] Hang on, ignore that, I just read back! Apologies.
South Kensington
You know, I haven't done this in years, but I'm going to hop on down to Oxford Circus. What happens to my green tokens now, do I still need them?
Twas knib was it not? Better hang on to them until we have a referee's decision on that. But while there isn't one around, Russell Square
*cackles evilly*
The problem with entering a mid-game at Croxley is that a Knib can domino across the board and set you up for a good ol' fashioned spooning. Fortunately, I moved to Ongar (with permission) and am somewhat protected. However, it will cost me a podume and I am stuck here until the Knib is revoked. *Farkle*
Dagenham Heathway with a triple Helsinki.
You swine!
Wapping. I love's a good wap.
Epping I've always been partial to a good epp.
Barking. So I'm told.
Pudding Mill Lane, prasmotically so.
Spindrift Avenue and no more puddings from Blue Bananas. They've gone off.
That was the yams, wasn't it?
Alperton, threatening a Grumley shift.
*farkle* threatening no-one.
An immensley threatening Clarence Gardens with glow in the dark podumes and a flashy platinum token to boot. As long as no-one employs the backpass trump manoeuvre, I can get to MC in three.
Down Street, using aforementioned backpass trump manoeuvre.
Bugger. Onslow Square then, and hang the expense.
Can I infiltrate Fairlop into the equation, here, using a combination of Maxwell's bifurcation and an anticlockwise loop move? (By the way, how do you do bold?)
Ken simply follow this example <b>Paddington</b> = Paddington but as you know, it would unwise to play that move at this moment in the game.
But while I'm here I'll pick up a couple of blue tokens, just passing through.
[html] Distinctly. Pinner superceding Ken's bifurcation with the Lombard Manoeuvre, last seen in the world cup final 1992.
AP]Quite and a manouvre made increasingly less used since the HP2000, but Plaistow should strech the envelope a bit further.
As Angus didn't declare which Paddington, I think I'd better be safe and play Edgware Road / Edgware Road.
This looks like a good place to join in, since the Warwick Variance is acceptably low after Tuj's Double Edgware. Aldgate, and declaring Home at Bethnal Green.
Aldgate East, declaring power failure at Whitechapel.
[Tuj] I didn't say paddington! (well I did just then, but that doesn't count) Anyhoo...Dalston Kingsland 'cos I'm feeling rebellious.
Tower Hill. Circle Line Clockwise
AP] Never mind, did no-one any harm.
Bromley-by-Bow, as a last resort to try and avoid a Kanskiy Lope.
Tuj] Thereby advancing JLEs power failure across the whole of the District line and putting me in Knip. However, I approve - anything to avoid a Kanskiy Lope. Stuck at Monument.
Declaring can't see the wood for the trees with a larch at Green Park.
In that case, Cyprus to counteract Boolbar's larch
Aha! Baker Street!
Dang! Bob the dog's knip is transferred to me at Covent Garden
- Freeing me to do some shopping in Brick Lane. Shoreditch and I claim the Green Podume that Riff had his eyes on.
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.
hmmmm a cunning move, which forces me to play a Kiev, giving me a direct diagonal into a Konstantinovka
Ha! I supercede you with a Moscow and play Tsvetnoi Bulvar
hmmmmmm I can only follow that with a simple Scotch Corner. I believe you now have the upper hand!
widey]welcome to the great game, however if I could just nudge yoou into putting a couple of 'tags' around your moves <b> to make them bold </b> , I must show no preference to any player but please accept these four blue tokens.
[Widey] And it would also be sort of nice if you moved to an actual station, or location. Indeterminate locations are all very well as a gimmick, but entirely confusing when used as a standard strategy, not least to the player who is playing them...

Wien Westbahnhof, naturally.

Moving it back into the zone and trumping wildly with Pigalle
3457879
*fanning the air around Angus* returning to a kind of ironic normality with Edgware Road
And leaving it again with Barkingside.
I would like to try a sub-sonic turn about for I may go to this place of a long time and stay.
Right... You're new to this aren't you? Custom House with a silver podume to boot
I declare Golders Green putting Angus in nid
And while all that's going on, I'll quietly hum on to Tooting Bec.
I see I see, I always did like London road
White City putting Pigeon in nip
Mansion House, pulling Angus out of knid and putting Poisoned Pigeon in spoon as well.
You think that can hold me? Me???!!! I shall come back with the three step, cross reversal. Brent Cross, Charing Cross and Kings Cross This will put Angus back in knid an LotUS in spoon and me free to roam where I will!
Golders Green/Willesden Green/Kensal Green forcing Pigeon to change lines at Rayners Lane
Its always an outisde move but I'll slip in a Stanmore in the hope of getting at least 1 point!
Old classic then - Hangar Lane gaining on all sides.
I think this move may become a new old classic. Reverse petticoats to straddle over Hackney Wick.
Bounds Green - am I too late to play trounce?
Sadly not. I, however, shall shorten the laterals and play Old Street
Clapham Common then becomes a good forcing move then. Avast!
Zut alors! New Cross!
You bounder! Gallions Reach - so there!
moving in a kind of zig-zag "don't step on the vortex" way, to Earls court
biding my time at Brent Cross and placing an oak podume on Moredon in preparation for my next.
a good plan. East Ham.
Devons Road with teak podume on Temple
East Finchely, just because....
aaaww... finchley. Bermondsey.
Have a care sir... Clapham Common because...
New Cross (Zut Alors!) opens a neat temporal vortex, and by pre-re-investment I now have 1550 silvery-turquoise podumes!
Camden Town - I wish I'd bought property in the 70s.
[nights] my father did buy property in the 70's, in Belgravia actually, my mother dined with Romanian dictators and Japanese warlords and I'm currently number 2 in the Hit Parade.......*bows head*.actually this is a soggy tissue of lies, really Amersham.
[momus] feel better for that? Loughton
Tuttlebee Lane due to the retreating furcations
Ongar a)because its a safe move and b)they have real Scorpions there!!
widey]after my last play you are so kind, a simple use of Goldensteins Lever, the way is open for a simple slip pivot to Brompton Road.
Stamford Brook, gesticulating wildly.
Ealing Common, returning the gesticulations with some of my own. "And your mother too" attached.
Mafeking Avenue bringing Rankin's Hypothesis into function.
[angus] what line's that one on? In the meantime, Stanmore, playing Mr Tickle's Special Ruling...
declaring all my genes.."taxi!! to the runway!!"..Heathrow Terminal 4..fake fingerprints in hand
[nights] It's not. Being a seasoned player, I'm sure you're aware you do not have to restrict yourself to stations. Graham Garden famously played Quex Road (and Willy Rushton went on to win from there), earning a 10 for using Q & X. I shall now play Yeoman's Row, taking one of your onyx podumes for asking obvious questions.
Lord, it's taken ages to find my way back to crescent after madeira and/or lethargicness set in. Well, as i'm here, er.....Kennington
So my Scotch Corner move was valid after all? I want my red n blue podumes back and demand a free go!!!!
Christ was the source of the Nile.. Mornington Crescent
[angus] hilarious. does that mean I can play Sandwell & Dudley?
[comus] surely you realised you were offside then? Never play a Crescent after Scotch Corner after all.....Ealing Broadway to move us past the fourth parallelogram
Perivale obviously.
well, then. Bounds Green again.
adding a little nautical flavour and moving sideways to Chatham
[LJ]I was off side indeed then , like Ike was in Turner, Mornington Crescent
...sorry, lad, but everyone knows you can't do that after Chatham!. Essex Road is a far more suitable riposte.
[Tuj] good point, well made. I'm going to invoke Mr Tickle's Special Surprise and play Walthamstow Central, Belsize Park, Blackwall and Chigwell all at the same time. I should clean up later on!
[nights] Not if I can help it, we'll halve the furbication to just a bi with West Acton and Turnham Green. Careful players, note the potential blocking moves from the south*wink*.
[Jim] Why warn us? We all spotted them of course... Green Park/White City swooping in from the north east and cornering Jim at Hammersmith.
reconstituting with Earl's Court. please retune your radios now.
[prune] fallen into the old trap eh? I cunningly had ou all looking south...now, I can swiftly counter charge with Upminster
[LJ] Had you bargained for Lambeth North, I wonder (cackles sinisterly)?
weaving madly at Canons Park.
Barking, threatening Little Jim with the Upminster Trick.
Farringdon. [LJ] Aha, so my cunning ploy worked...
Taking it right to the edge of the board (so you will need a telescope to get a good view!)and playing Cromar Beach allowing me to use the Eddison rule thus bringing Battersy Power station into play...
In which case, bifurcating with Battersea Power Station / Borough.
Crivens! We'll all be naught and washed away if I dinna stave things off wiv a bad Scottish accent and The Thames Barrier.
In that case I'll have to keep north of the river for now till the back wash dies down Island Gardens
Keeping to Tuke's Arboreal with Aspen Way
A bit off-side there Angus, but I suppose that can be permitted in the circumstances. Stockwell picking up the tangerine podume JLE so cleverly diverted our attention from with his threat of the Upminster Trick.
[Bob the dog] You really should have learned by now. My bluffs are never *single*... I assume a certain amount of intelligence on the part of my competitors, and thus knew the Upminster trick wouldn't fool you. But what was the tangerine podume a decoy for?

Here's hoping you don't find out till it's too late.Warren Street - *not* playing the bi-directional driveback I suspect you were expecting, and planning to be knocked out of trouble with... and where are you going to move from Stockwell? You're fine where you are, but every move is a disaster...

Words words words. And I was NOT off-side, not even by a little bit. Progressing, with Junkin's Defence, to Dalston Kingsland
Angel
That makes it safe for Stamford Brook but I'm running low on tokens, time to look for an opening, if I raise the LV 0.5 that should gain a bit of time.
Time to slip into Ealing Broadway and await the next move!
Thanks widey, just what I was waiting for. (Apparently) sniped by JLE's double double crossing - Holborn. For those of you who are new to the game, this effectivly puts the Central and Northern lines into doubleknip (see Broadbear & Broadbear 1975). Any takers for the Jubilee-Grey tokens I left at Stockwell?
Me! I claim them by high-tailing it to Burnt Oak, placing the DLR under curfew conditions.
Perfect. Holborn, via Green Park, shunting Bob to Bethnal Green. On a double-knipped line *with no means of interchange*... I could escape from Warren Street by the Victoria.
AP] That was uncalled for and terribly mean, that leaves me in a bit of a crisis. But if I play an underscuttled Golders Green the effect on JLE should be to send him to Angel forcing a token cascade along Northern, all I have to do is sit here and wait.
Double G's and all to play for, Picadilly circa 1937.
*elbows her way in with* North Harrow if you'll excuse my audacity, I've been at the pink lemonade again.
So, beginning from Angel, I guess I've got nowhere to go except on foot from the double-knipped Northern (and a remembrance that, okay, Inkspot has a few extra podumes, but with the double knip he's going to need them all - I'd be surprised if he actually gains anything by setting off the cascade, given what he's about to end up spending.)

So, at risk of wearing out a pair of shoes that weren't really meant for walking long distances, Great Portland Street.

Best to steer clear of that foreclosed diagonal then. An incredibly underhanded Cavendish Square, cutting off all of JLE's retreats.
So satisfying to catch JLE finally caught out. Not being mean, you must understand (curse his pro-playing hide!). Charing Cross begginning snood alignment.
Oh come on! Stop being so wet Googolplex and hit him where it hurts! Manchester Picadilly via Euston
Hmmmmm using my space-time conveter thus changing picadilly into London road circa 1928 and using the old link into Victoria for a swift halfmoon manouver!!
[Little Jim] I'm afraid of what he'll do to me!
Well I think that went rather well all things considered. That double knip was a small price to pay. But thanks to the cascade I seem to be up one red and one blue token. Standing back at Gants Hill after placing a well worn Oak Podume on Epping , with what looks to me like E R srcatched into its surface.
Oh balls. *farkle*.
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