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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*.
It thus seems logical to play Uxbridge, particularly as there's no-one else around, and thus earning back two podumes from Angus that were confiscated a few weeks ago. But I forget - do I get to choose what type or do you, Angus?
Neasdon. For religious reasons.
[ZK] I do. You can have a yellow one and this peppermint one I found at the bottom of my coat pocket. Sorry about the fluff. Meantime I shall move to Turnham Green, leaving JLE, Little Jim and Googolplex only one possible move. Not that they needed warning.
[Angus] I assume you are using the Derwhent Game of 1950 as a precedent? Which means you would expect me to play Harrow-on-the-Hill, but if you remember, Hugh Paddick was lucky enough to have a Rainbow Token. I cash in all my tokens to gain this marvellous object, place JLE and Angus in knip and play Parson's Green, enabling me to control all lateral passes at my own discretion.
With the exception of the Minsky Lateral, as a halfmoon maneouvre has been played in the last 10 moves, of course. Therefore I can counter (and more!) with Walthamstow Central.
[Tuj] Not so, I invoke the Wrinski Convention, keeping my own control at the cost of being in spoon.
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