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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.
[GtABGfL] However, you must remember that Tuj has the option of using 4 red tokens to deny the Wrinski. For my own, I shall re-emerge from Clapham South by Alfonse's Manifestation.
[LotUS] Not unless he wishes to leave himself open, nor risk a snood invasion, and I'm pretty sure he only has 3 red tokens anyway.
I think its my turn..... Grange Hill, HA! that should shut you all up!
This is where the plan unfolds. The two red tokens I had are therefore magnified thanks to Winski's, and I can trump on the Piccadilly line at Pimlico. HA! indeed.
[Tuj] Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a lateral pass, I redirect you to Cockfosters.
Battersea Rise, getting me out of knip & putting Googolplex in it. Also availing myself of one of Googolplex' ochre podumes, cutting off all his lateral retreats, as well as the odd flying one, foreclosing all of the area NW3 and disqualifying anyone who attempts the Krasivy Contrivence or the Johannisthaller Device (1872 ammendment) in the next three goes.

Not that you needed telling.
I needed it! 'cause at first I thought you were talking twaddle. Let's duckwalk to Mile End for more tokens, mine's a shandy.
Mine's a Vodka and Orange. Brewhouse Walk
Belsize Park Pah! NW3! I laugh in the face of danger. Oh look a nice little shiney for my collection
Barbican, natch.
I shall have to defer to those who now better: doesn't Alfonse's Manifestation mean that Inkspot made a lateral pass? In the meantime, Convent Garden.
With a perverse glee, King George V
Bowing to pressure: King George V
More royalty in the form of Kings Cross - sans pancreas.
[GtABGfL] Nah, it just looks like a lateral pass - it was in fact an X-straddle. And a rather nifty one at that! I shall go Kingsway - three of a kind thus lets me change my home station to Barbican, and collect two silver podumes from Jenny.
[LotUS] Thanks. I've noticed that everyon'e avoiding lateral passes at the moment, making for some rather static play, but Goldhawk Road will put a stop to that!
Ah! Earl's Court.
Tuj] He may well be! But Hangar Lane could well be to my advantage here.
You are all far too crafty, but the options are running out.
Taj Mahal
[Googolplex] Enough of your predilections. ;-) Ealing Common
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.)
Royal Oak, continuing the licensed premises cascade.
Well, somewhat saddeningly forced to Mudchute.
[Tuj] And therefore, off you go to Willesden Junction. Heheh, I'm on a roll: you're next JLE! Scattering the fractals by reverse passing to Embankment on the Bakerloo Line.
[JLE] needs to get out more....Seven Sisters.
[Little Jim] needs to actually look at what's *around* him more... Walthamstow Central.
Gants Hill maintaining a northward drive with banked Notley Spin.
[JLE] needs a sense of humour;) heh, let's go Picadilly Circus for the clowns!
*splats Little Jim in the face with a custard pie* Oxford Circus. Clowns? Does anybody actually find them funny? :-)
[JLE - no - terrifying!] Circus Street. Always preferred sword swallowers myself....
[Angus Prune] No comment. Still ensconced in my powerful position, I redirect Little Jim to Northwick Park, place one teal token on my stack and move to Stepney Green.
Chalfont & Latimer, the standard riposte.
That has opened up Mansion House what a gift! I'll just reverse the flow on the Circle and the District to shunt Googolplex the Amazing Balancing Goat from Luxembourg to Upminster.
[Inkspot] You utter swine! Well that's my advantage gone. I am now very cross.
[Inkspot] That's a bit of a big shunt isn't it? "From Luxembourg to Upminster"... Blackwall.
I'm horribly confused - my Fronsky diagram and Becks calculator are giving me completely contradictory readings. Nothing for it, then but to * Farkle * until the situation has stabilised.
*whangs an egg nog at JLE* that's the spirit laddie! Chalk Farm via Rosemary Avenue and Morden. Dark, isn't it?
Chalk Farm shunting Little Jim to Amersham. [LJ] Dark enough for you?
... ... Camden Town (Bank to High Barnet Branch). Crossing points 20a & 20b very carefully... that's where the train derailed last October.
Bugger it. *F A R K L E*
Yeah, I'm left there too, again... *farkle*.
Chiz chiz [Molesworth]! Oval.[LotUS] pass'us the torch then...
Stops off at Embankment to see what the Metropolitan District Railway Company have done to my specially designed riverside...
What about the drains in Hackney?
Well, last I heard they were more concerned about the earthquakes in East Acton.
Ello 'dere. Winds light to variable. Errm... Balham gateway to the South.
Hello everybody! It's me: Blunebutton! Places lug in lug 'ole and sidles up to Eccles. Ooooh, I like 'dis game: no hit hit hitee or deading! Bermondsey incognito.
Essex Road, to avoid dedding again.
Cannon Street, firing.
Our father who art in Hendon,
Little Portland Street, Little
Tooting, toot toot.
South Harrow, touche...
West Harrow, threeche, even... how are you at mathematics?
Holloway be thy name.
Being flusterd and botherd at Kings cross.....pah, where's my sandwich?
Crusts on or off? Crusts on, it's just behind the bread bin, crusts off, not sure....oh, hang about, Morning-...arse! Neeped and tattied!
Stopping off for a scratch in flealess East Finchley.
Thy Kingston come,
Thy Wimbledon[sorry SNS]
In Erith as it is in heaven.
Give us this Bray in Maidenhead,
and forgive us our bypasses
I see others are sad enough to know The Bus Inspectors Prayer.
as we forgive them that bypass against us
lead us into Thames Ditton,
continuing the flow...
***Squorrox!*** the second line is meant to read, "Lead us NOT into Thames Ditton... damned keyboard never could spoil proper.
but deliver us from Perivale
[JLE] that line should be "but deliver us from Ealing." which is followed by
For thine is the Kingston,
the Purley and the Crawley.
For Iver and Iver, Crouch End.
Here endith the first lesson...
Running in reverse through Chatham and working may way to Neasden and getting a shinny pink and green Drogna on the way.
Are we playing "Weakest Link" variant [Herr Bratsche]?.....Shepherd's Bush, just near the Safeway
Pimlico, snadge! declared.
Shepherd's Bush, the one not near Safeway's...
Safeway's, the one near an item of shrubbery belonging to a herdsman.
Queensway.
Ongar with a quick stop for a brew and a change of pants!
Kingsway, trumping Puckoon.
Hmmm... [LotUS] I'll see your Kingsway, and raise you Kingsbury.
A foul!....Scorer, a point away from [Puckoon]. Ummm....Neasdon, but cautiously and maybe slendiferentially.
Foul denied. Point deducted instead from Little Jim for incorrect challenge. The move to Neasden, however, stands (although being misspelt) and is strategically sound, and forces me to Colliers Wood.
Re-entering the arena with a 'safe' Victoria.
That forces a Boardmans round for the next six (at least) - Neas Up.
Bowditch, straddling.
Shorechurch, leaping... and why not?
[puckoon] Because of the pond there maybe? Appears you may have taken a dive there my friend....Mortlake for the brewery, and to move [Herr Bratsche] off centre.
A quick trip home, leaving from Heathrow Terminal 1.
A quick reversing manouver via Kings Cross picking up one aquamarine podume on the way....
Paying a veridian token for a quick stop at Temple.
[Little Jim, re. Puckoon] He's fallen in the water!!

Knightsbridge...

Clapham Common / Finchley Road, for the hell of it.
Bakerloo and stopping for tea (Assam) and biccies...parp!!
A holding measure Dollis Hill.
Absolute Elsewhere to Putney Bridge in a single bound.
Highbury, obviously, though sadly.
Recentring on Oxford Circus.
Slightly off centre at Kennington
why does the scrabble server keep breaking down. ihave withdrawal symptoms
Singing sea shanties and being all nautical whilst pausing at Cutty Sark
This is very hard work ... Ruislip Gardens
Crossharbour & London Arena. Safe.
bank
Homerton.
Arkansas. For obvious reasons.
Finsbury Park, with fond memories of seeing the Grateful Dead at the Rainbow.
[Little Jim] There not that obvious. Oh errm Mill Hill Park and be damned.
Moorgate and watch those damn buffers....
Ongar and a quick slip into reverse!
Alperton and sending an LV spike down the Picadilly.
Wrong way, I'm afraid. Sending it *up* the Piccadilly would have made more sense, but as things stand, the very first person your spike hits will be your own good self after it passes around the Heathrow loop.

Of course, this could have been your intention, but it seems unlikely from where I'm sitting. Meanwhile, Eastcote.

Boston Manor, dissipating that spike.
Millwall Junction
Ipswich (yehyehyeh!)
Pall Mall neatly spiking [JLE]! I know now why [LotUS] went that way...
I think I do too. Goodman's Manouvre places me (oddly) in Battersea Rise.
I have but one word for you... Greenwich Park
Err... [YOGF] that's two words... My response is Welsh Harp.
Not a common move, but Preston Road and be damned I say.
Walthamstow Central
Kew Gardens
Hatton Cross (and Richmond furious :))
Belsize Park, sideways. [ZK] HA!
Archway. Not too much sauce
[JLE] Isn't it nice when you can get other people to do your work for you ;) [LJ] Thank you very much.

Now, careful use of the Holtz-Friedel Platform Twist allows me to play a rather powerful Angel. That'll be two silver podumes or four purple tokens from everyone please.

[LotUS] Ah. So I'm not the only person who bears grudges across servers. Pray you never face me in the Lock Cup ;-) In the meantime, one silver and two purples passed over since you seem to be assuming equivalence, and I shall start plotting my revenge in *this* game following my retreat to Uxbridge.
[JLE] is that Metropolitan, Belmont Road, High Street or Vine Street?
Twyford Abbey Halt
Using Sir Albert Nodworths second rule of "low pressure steam condensing" I'll play Cutty Sark and await the arrival of my TEA!
[Ye olde gong farmer] Yes.
Using Pete Watermans defunct "Manx Rule" Union Mills
[widey] 'Fraid you'll be waiting a long time, with this blocking move on Custom House.
[JLE] I can quite imagine that circumstances may contrive themselves to bring about that state of events. I look forward to such a battle with anticipation. I have but you (and other MC luminaries, of course) to thank for my education here.
Ditto
I'll try Walthamstow Central,although I've never heard of any other kind of Walthamstow.
Oh Bugger.........moves back ten paces...........
Has no one read Fanshawe's third? Or Teddy Pendergast's second? Well, Tooting Beck and shame one you! Shame!
Wimbledon. Fifteen-love.
Arriving late, but still well before last orders, I'll play Goodge Street.
Three blue podumes to me, as that's my home, considering Flernson's Amendment is in force after my previous farkle. I'll leave them at the Bank.
Blackfriars, gesticulating wildly.
Wonders if he should move from Shepherd's Bush yet. Decides not to.
Tottenham Court Road, getting out the way of the spike, and adding a vertical block on Bank. Wall yourself away in Custom House all you like, LotUS: keep those blocks building higher and the chances are you'll find yourself on the wrong side of them...
Damn, another missed turn...............has anyone got volume 12 of the rule book, mines missing!
[widey] I have volume 6's, will they do?
South Kentish Town, to you all!
Oh farkle that should have been I have two volume 6's.
West Ham [JLE] You forget about my ruby red podume stack that's pulsing quietly away in a Secret LocationTM. Declaring token boon for all players EXCEPT JLE and Ye olde gong farmer - nothing personal, just that you two are out of position to take advantage.
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