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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.
I'd just bought a nice new token at Hammersmith but ta for the offer LotUS....I might just throw in Krapy Rubsnif for the sheer frivolity of the moment!
I've just run into a bloke called "Cyril" at Lavo. Any ideas?
Dont lie you fucking guy
you kiked my dog you mopther fucker
i just hacked the mainframe
of the school
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and infected it with artmoney and memoryhacker
they cut the hardline its a trap get OUT!!!!!!!!
i wank cats
well good i just hacked the fbi there planning to attack britain
joke
OH NO!
www.funnyjunk.com/relax
ok stewart im sending the picture of my cock now
fews
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hello oli
You mother fuckers
Hi sam
wat r u doing
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nothing
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hi pat
hello i am lester and this is my SHOP!!!!!!
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Following that slight detour through Hackney (where else would you get such *shocking* behaviour?) South Quay DLR
Someone's left their radio on, static interference... though i think what Boolbar said could've been for the Lies game? Deptford Bridge.
aha found volume 12 and invoking Blechfords quantum diversion rule (part 2b).........Tooting Beck
Back after a shocking absence! And what the hell was all that highly intellectual conversation above about? Anyway, making allowances for scurile rogues - White City
No, never White City, not White City, please for the love of David Bellamy not White City!...it can only lead to Kennington....I can feel the tube map wincing...
Blackfriars. [LotUS] Nothing personal intended, I'm sure, and none taken. Purely a matter of circumstance. So, a relatively benign side-straddle here, but a sound defensive block to counter any attempted drivebacks or pincer movements.
Fishtailing to Gunnersbuty - pegging Kew Gardens.
Blimey, what have I wondered into here? White City.
Fenchurch and a quick chat with the ghost of Derek Guyler.....
Finchley Road and Frognal, because I can.
Tottenham Hale for reasons that will become obvious.
Blindingly. Colindale, as I feel it is feeling underused
apropos of nothing ....Russell Square.
Just because I wanted to be the posting person on every game in MC5 this evening.
Aren't you the lucky lot? Non-sequiteurs rule OK.
Matrimony Place because I'm celebrating!
Ickenham. [Angus Prune] Congrats!
After a shockingly long absence, I come in with a move very close to my heart; Bank. Please note the subtle double loop with reverse.
Kew Gardens, with noted lack of subtlety.
The unerlying transmigrated mainline you left open would be perfect for...Kentish Town
Snaresbrook - canceling out previous imposter move.
Kew Gardens, playing a driveback on Tuj, and shunting him firmly into the buffers at Richmond and watching him bounce back past me to Willesden Junction via the North London British Rail line. [Tuj] As LotUS will no doubt enlighten you, I bear cross-server grudges ;-)
Well, funnily enough, thanks to that NLBR detour I can get to Essex Road and quang you. Don't worry.
[Tuj] Yes, I still bear the dizziness from the cross-server loop that JLE shoved me into. And all because of one innocuous comment. I dunno, the quality of MCers today...

Anyway, Shadwell blonking Poisoned Pigeon.

[LotUS] I seem to recall the esteemed JLe and myself having a bit of a coming together back at !York way back when (unless my memory fails me)...
Still, why not bring some competitiveness and enthusiasm into it? Bearing that in mind, I'll *farkle*
Adding craftiness to the bargain with Lizard Street. Although I think I've blonked myself...
i just peed my underwear hows that for being cool yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I'd just like to say that edna is nothing to do with me, and I am still perfectly continent. Thank you.
Managing Director I am fucking serious guys, I love to suck off goats, particularly Welsh ones. English ones I just tease.
Laugh you may
But I fucking love it
I can't believe it, they ask me to fax it over and I've faxed it twice already, and then they got the cheek to tell me that the prices are wrong.....now, hang on a minute, no disrespects but, what do they know about cottage doors?...eh?
E=MC squared
Time to shut down the lifts to stations on the Circle, and move safely to Croxley.
Interesting. Oxford Circus (Victoria Line only) - trapped underground for the time being.
Tottenham Court Road from the south. Underground naturally but tunnelling past [LotUS]
Shall go with Gram's Conjunction and slip through the shadows to Marble Arch
I'll play the Schizoid Tangent with... Highgate, which became Archway (Highate), then Highgate (Archway) to end up as Archway...
And, I note, implicitly invoking the Piccadilly Ruling. Just as well I'm not trying to shunt from Ealing Broadway or we could have another Moon Over Morden incident. As things stand, Essex Road, de-quanging.
Simplicity can be beautiful - Highbury & Islington. Now just look at what has happened.
It's... all... opened up. That's quite staggering. Never in my years have I seen such a wonderful reduction as that. All players are back in ground state, the diagonals are open, all barriers are up, power is back on...

So I might as well take advantage and set up anew at Great Portland Street.

Hold on Lotus, I think Boolbar is onto something and I'm just a tadge bit concerned, are you on the Circle or Hammersmith & City? I won't mention District. I thought we had agreed not to mention the "Moredon incident" , but the damage has been done now. As you know I'm not one to point fingers, but, if JLE could just delay the backwash from the de-quanging for a couple of turns. Stroking on a bounce at Gunnersbury
[Inkspot] In fact he's on the Metropolitan, since the District doesn't serve GPS. The logical ramifications of this should be obvious to you. Backwashes be damned, Swiss Cottage, with a semi-inversion.
Hmm. So, am I presuming that, from the Metropolitan I can make it to Edgware Road? That leaves all the diagonals clear!
I'll see your ER and raise you GR or Gloucester Road.
Holland Park staying clear JLE and the diagonals, he is up to something but not sure what, and perhaps in league with Tuj. Or am I just being paranoid?
I'm certainly not in league with Tuj. On the other hand, when am I *not* up to something? MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHH!!!

Sorry, just had to get that evil laugh out of my system, it wasn't because any plan of mine has come to fruitition.

Yet.

Edgware, driving Tuj off-Road.

JLE] That was very naive of Inkspot, wasn't it? Mind you, I can snatch a podume by leaping off-road over to Bounds Green. Funny that.
[Tuj] Ever heard of the "Poisoned Podume Variation" of the Cripplehead Lateral Attack? If not, I believe you're about to...
[JLE] Nasty! Still it leaves me clear to sweep up a few tokens on the Central Line - Woodford with token extension rule through to Epping.
At last, someone with their head screwed on the right way round, and Boolbar straight away sees something in JLE's play. Very mysterious. I need to dig out my Fronskey Diagram again. Attack being the best form of defense Amersham.
JLE] True, I have now. But I believe that when Inkspot dredges up his diagram it will show the optional spike currently in play which delays the PPV of the CLA until 99 years have passed or all players have died, whichever comes first. And before I start to feel smug, I think I'll be at Dollis Hill for a long time anyway...
Avoiding all of these shenanigans at Shadwell.
At your peril LotUS. I have my rather well worn diagram now but no spike! Has Tuj hidden it in one of the folds? Very cunning you old fox. Moving to Bermondsey increasing my podume defences by factor of 0.01.
Inkers! I fear I am unmasked! Hiding my whiskers and sniffing the chicken coup at Leicester Square.
Well, I'm going to enter safely with a Plinge defensive at Chalfont & Latimer. Oh, and I believe that'll have some interesting repurcussions for those on the Circle line...
*wonders why all the green tokens on the Circle Line have disappeared*
*notices that Tuj is suddenly going very green indeed*
*laughs evilly*

Yes, where do you think I've been diverting them to. A severe case of Unwanted Token Loading, methinks - let's see how he gets rid of *that* lot. I'll carry on laughing from a safe distance, namely Loughton.

I can see an oppurtunity here... I invest my podumes in a number of suspect packages which I strew all over the Northern Line, and create an escape for Tuj with Alperton.
Googolplex] I owe you one, very muchly indeed. A relieved Pimlico, where I build a statue in honour of Luxembourg.
I have been following this game since the beginning and, after long and careful consideration (and deep regrets that I did not play after the obvious mistake at move 2795), it would seem that you have finally left the right flank open. Barons Court.
Well in regulation play it would be Mornington Crescent and home for dinner! But as it is a long game, I shall have to be content with a half-strile to Roding Valley.
London Road because I'm lost and living in a time warp and haven't played for a week or too..........boo hoo
I have a question! If you are placed in knid do you have to wear the green waders or the yellow calf cut wellies?
A predominant *farkle*, adjourning.
[widey] Personal preference depending on where you went into knid. You don't have to wear anything but it might hinder an escaping move through Westminster or Embankment if you don't.

I shall saunter along to Camden Town, adjourning to the World's End.

[Tuj] I didn't want one in that colour...

That farkle does allow me to play a rather sneaky Ruislip Gardens/Angel however.

[widey] the only rule re-footware is that it must cover the whole foot... which leaves me with a move to St James' Park nipping to the Buckingham Arms for a dose of Waggle Dance.
since this is the first time I've ventured in 'ere, better play it safe... salsa to Shoreditch where the choice of shoes is endless (matching handbags available for many styles)
I am new to this game, although having observed for some months and researched the rules in some detail, may I be so bold as to assume that my loafers will enable me to skip nimbly to Edgeware Road as an opening move?
Or even Edgeware Road (steep learning curve)
Having been out of it for a while, and seeing an easy opening, I trump you with a pair of circuses, Picadilly Circus and Oxford Circus Of course this does rather narrow the options available to everybody, but does open up some rather interesting loops!
A little unusual I know but what the hell - Hillesden Junction! (Reverse Zarkofsky Side Step)
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However, your move was pretty damn hot for a novice. I am now in knip and will have to farkle.
Having not played for over a fortnight, I am allowed to use Pegg's Convention and get to Monument, with a purple podume on Bank.
I can only think of playing Camden Town which pretty much means I won't be winning. Not even sure why I bothered entering the fray...
A quick reverse and slip via Euston and envoking Shmidts 3rd rule of Teleportation....I await my fate!
But I'm in no position to take advantage. So it'll have to be Euston Square on foot.
Westferry, which, if I'm reading my Perigar Table accurately, takes widey to... Northmapton!? Hang on, that can't be right...
Eeeeegods!!! Now I'm in a bit of a pickle, going nowhere on the avoiding loop at Northmapton not to be confused with Northampton I will bide my time.................twiddle, sigh,***
After such a break in the game play, a bullish Elephant and Castle.
Followed by an elephantish Bull & Bush.
Keeping the ampersand employed - Chalfont & Latimer
Finchley Road & Frognal, almost constructing a cascade, but settling for picking up a puce podume instead.
As a complete beginner, I find all these ampersands a bit intimidating. So with due deference to my more experienced elders of MC I will hie me to the relative safety of Old Street
Tee hee. Sneaking into Barbican.
I think I'm getting off the underground network just in case. Alderley Edge...
LotUS's proximity at Barbican is making me a little nervous, threatening as it does to unsettle any semblance of balance in my early game. So I will move on with alacrity and plumes held high, to Blackfriars - hope this isn't too much of a newbie move..
[Kiwi Chris] newbies are always welcome, you will find me fair, kind, conciderate to other players and always generous. However there is some unfinished business! Ruislip Gardens and introducing an LV spike on the Jubilee westbound.
Egads! How did you do that? Retires in disarray to Seven Sisters to reconsider.
Just as well I *did* get out of the way. Long Buckby, still out of town.
*farkle*, demurely, watching the melee.
Springing from Barbican to Arsenal and wading into the melee, sabre up on high.
Seeing new opportunities arise - Leicester Square
Amazing, I can semi-straddle to Putney Bridge, and initiate a cross-server blot!. I have no idea where you can go from there...
Well there's nothing for it I'll have to play Church End, Finchley.
Well that does cut down the options somewhat ... the only place I can reasonably go without shedding too much LV now is St Pauls... so that's where I go
Bank
Such a long pause, a gathering of breath before a huge plunge perhaps? Unnerved by the long silence, I scuttle to Southgate
Well... I can but move Junction Road for Tufnell Park, via Junction Road Junction.
*farkle*, established since 1985.
Oooh nasty... Well I think that laves me with a quick visit to Broad St, for Petticoat Lane Market (Which isn't in Petticoat Lane).
Right then, feeling a little continental (but she doesn't mind, really), it's Holland Park for me :)
Which forces me to Stratford.
Using the Butter Warble precedent I shall stride manfully into Ealing Broadway
I don't like the look of the Deschapelles Oscillation caused by that last move. Consulting my Federov Tables suggests that the best way to return some balance to the game is to march boldly to Blackwall and place a mauve podume into play. This I now do.
hmmm... Looks like a quick colour (color for those on the wrong side of the Atlantic) round Whitechapel
Invoking a colour cascade to get the necessary momentum to strile to Silvertown, doubling my podume stack at New Cross Gate.
And now for a Double colour move Golders Green.
Mearly a crossroads, in the middle of fields, in my day.
Moving carefully, so as not to disturb newly re-established balance ... tip toe cautiously to Edgeware Road
At last the W&C delivers me to the correctly spelt Edgware Road, Circle Line.
Alas, this edging about has bunched up so finely that according to my Dominant Lane Axis Graphs, I could unravel the entire structure and enter the game with a single Reverse Archipelago Pin straight across the third bilateral to Mile End.
Westminster, but I seem to have dropped the legume counter somewhere.
Gadzooks! Surely this doesn't leave me with a fiendish Dollis Hill?
Sucked in.... Dollis Hill.
Fidgetting madly at Dollis Hill.
oh for the love of God no! Dollis Hill!
You know, I think I saw this coming ... doesn't help me avoid it though. Sighing now, at Dollis Hill
Sorry I'll have to pass as my daughter's "Dolly's Ill".
still hopelessly mired in Dollis Hill. Sniff.
Guess Where. Again.
I'll spend 4,186 purple podumes to break out of this D****s H**l loop, and play Temple
Podumes well spent methinks ... move with alacrity to Hackney Central
Taking an artistic move to the North of Hockney Central aka Blackfriars
nice and elaborate. I counter with Sudbury Hill.
Announcing Ongar
...and introducing Bermondsey, reversing.
Stepping in through Lancester Gate.
ah. OK then, changes things a little. *thinks* Cannon Street.
Getting fired up - Monument
Swooping magnificently upon Northfields
Shuffling schemingly to Seven Sisters.
stuck at Euston for the last 9 weeks..........arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
BANK!
Since [widey] has Euston stuffed, I'll travel to Birmingham (Moor St) via Marylebone.
Having wed the french medial condyle of the humerus we move swiftly to a reception at Highgate to be reunited with distant relatives
Nipping up to the High Level station, I wait for a train to Alexandra Palace
Breaking into this throng of Knights of the Realm with Knightsbridge.
Taking a leaf from Sir Joe - Mudcute (sorry!)
.... er should read MUDCHUTE . . damned war wound
Sidling back in to Stockwell.
Holborn, raising overall LV by five points.
Ahem - Morningto . . . . hang on, is Haskin's Tally invoked? If so I'd better change to Victoria (handy for New Scotland Yard.
I would salute that move, except it's not very military, so I'll go to St. James' Park for the guards barracks.
King William St
Barons Court
Queensbury
Tottenham Court Road
S'easy Arsenal
Descending upon Great Portland Street with my ravening hordes following along behind me...
Waiting at Pontoon Dock for the railway to come
you might be waiting a while. New Cross, chav declared, and shunting ZK (wherever she is) to zone four.
Vauxhall [nights] sorry but you can't declare chav unless you can achieve a diagonal four vector leap - which isn't possible from Pontoon Dock, unless I am mistaken! Perhaps the new-ness of the station confused you?
Oxford Circus, without lions. [Sir H] you might be right. on the other hand, I might just be being an idiot. it's your call. n.
Denying chav at Knightsbridge.
Come on people what's poor old Chav done now?
Muswell Hill.
Roding Valley - natural counter I believe.
Pimlico [Major] which line would Muswell Hill be on then?
It's on the line between Highgate High Level & Alexandra Palace the other station being Cranley Gardens.
Island Gardens, narwhal amendment denied. [Major] thanks for clearing that one up...
Belsize Park
Aha! The dreaded Inverse with red uncovered! All players with red tokens are required to forfeit their Transport Card.
Oh, sorry... Latimer Road. I'd dozed off there for a mo...
don't worry mate. in the meantime, Knightsbridge.
what sort of move do you call that?
It's pathetic really...you should have used the Midland Railway's Harlesden for West Willesden and Stonebridge Park
[hugh] oh now that's not on. look at the rest of the page. does anyone else ridicule moves made by other people? thought not.

Brixton, inverting LV on Jubilee line via Hetherington Corrolary.
[Hugh] that's easy for you to say! I much prefer Essex Road.
nights] Well... *bites tongue*
Barons Court, shifting up a gear.
[Tuj] none of that, thank you.

Notting Hill Gate.
I say - Arnos Grove!
[nights] maybe I know who the other player is & this how we normally greet each other, and all this in Colindale
[nights] [Hugh]'s right I known the idiot for years, we used to go the school together near Holloway Road.
I stand corrected. And slightly bent over. Holborn.
All knights please rise. Brighton has been played, with odd numbered wheels scoring double points.
Aha - Earls Court double points all around and a pint of fosters (pref not cocked)
I shall lop my way across to Fairlop.
Rayners Lane, playing ping.
Since the clock has just chimed, I'm really left with no alternative other than Bank. Has anyone here ever played Stanley Random Chess? I would think it would appeal to dedicated MC players, since the same principles are applied to chess.
I declare home at Cannon Street and make a monumental opening move at Monument.
All northern stations are declared closed on account of snow. After enjoying a delightful Exhibition Game in a cafe, I move to Midland, rolling a double and so turning both wheels.
[santa] what a very festive link. you do realise, that people have had limbs removed for lesser acts of HTML excitingness...

And so to the matter at hand. I choose Baker Street, sideways and with a cucumber.
Oh no - drawn inexorably towards Monument . . does anyone smell burning?
Sir Henry] Yes, and it's Santa Claus. Well, he did put up a flashing hyperlink and it's been a long day...
Move? yes, OK: Lewisham, spreading flame coloured podumes.
Oops, that was a clumsy (accidental; br/hr) line... imagine it's not there...
Imagine Seven Sisters instead. On second thoughts, maybe not...
Covent Garden, declaring Carrot.
Ahem, Santa, we have work to do before the 25th, and we don't have time to play around with HTML. Get back on the train! Counting three trees and using the return ticket, we board again at Dollis Hill.
Plane stupid. Heathrow, taxiing of course, due to a strike by the underground worker's union. Baggage Handlers Amnesty proclaimed, all unclaimed luggage will be auctioned in the next turn.
The North Pole is an illegal move at this point of the game, due to the International Time Zone Restriction, correct?
Ahm,possibly. It depends on how far you are from the Greenwich Meridian, you're speed of motion, and of course, when you last had lunch with Zaphod Beeblebrox. But I'm sure you knew that already. I put a blocker on the auction, by buying the baggage at Heathrow Terminal 5 for Forty Million Tons of Rice!
Google - yay...I win!
[mickey] you wish. Tottenham Court Road.
Amersham, hey, bet it's a long time since you all saw a back-pass trump manouevre!
Mahsrema - Beck's coefficient to you to!
If that's the way play is going... Tricentenario on the Metro de Medellin
recentreing - Charing Cross
West Hampstead - being a creature of habit, i will blonk. I think you'll all find you've been shunted.
woargh, I find myself inexplicably at Walthamstow Central.
Well I shall head to Willesden Junction for repairs.
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