I think I can straddle to Clapham Common, can I not?

[JLE] First time you've ever complained ;-)

[Tuj - yes, but I wouldn't shout about it!] Nectarine Way with a purple podume and in preparation for a Washington Gambit

AJ]Seeing as my token stack is a bit more healthy I can counter that with Scunthorpe Twist to lower the LV to Zones 1 and 2 at the same time as playing off South Acton

Banbury Cross to see [Inkspot]'s fine lady upon a white hoss...

restarting from Tooting Beck as I have missed several goes, but aim to do better this time!

[Googolplex] *BOOT* (friendly of course). And on that note, Chigwell

[JLE] Thanks, and you! Westferry with a small ice cube. I can see lateral passes on the horizon!

*swallows ice cube* Hampstead, splinge reduced.

Clapham common as I feel a womble hunt is way over due, followed by a diagonal shunt to Green Park...

Thence for continuity....Turnham Green and Dollis Hill, reversing parallels, shunting [Widey] to the extremities of the Victoria Line, Nuffielding [Tuj] and placing me in a rather good position for the shipping forecast.

[LJ] I should've seen that coming. Good ploy with the parallels, but I think that Beck's Coefficient's too high for a charge on the Northern Line, or even just a shunt to Blackfriars. Meanwhile, I *farkle* again resignedly.

escaping the victoria line by deft use of the blue and black levers (but not the red ones!)and using Webbs theory of independant transmission to loitre at Box Hill!!

Oh no, you don't - Temple!

[HB] Wrong religion, mate, wrong religion. At least at this juncture in the game. St Pauls would have served you better if you'd gotten there first.

...but Alperton even better, yes?

Only if you really *believe* in atheism, rather than just not giving a damn.

Oh ye of little faith, so many prayers left unanswered, Oval.

Then build a Monument for your piety.

Oh, and Elephant and Castle, which is named after the pub, for all those who believe that the real meaning of life will be found in booze ;-)

Oh, and according to "What's In A Name?" by Cyril M. Harris, the definitive guide to the origins of station names, the name of the Elephant and Castle (the pub) does *not*, as is popularly supposed, derive from "Infanta of Castile" after a Spanish princess, but from its original proprietors - the Cutlers' Company, whose use of the Elephant as their coat-of-arms derives from the ivory used for their craft: the first recorded appearance of the Elephant-and-Castle coat-of-arms is by the Cutlers, at the marriage in 1445 of King Henry VI to Queen Margaret, who was most certainly *not* Spanish. (One presumes that the Cutlers were at the time one of the more important of the ancient trade guilds, who would appear turned out in their best livery as part of important processions and ceremonial occasions.)