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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.
Relaunching my conquest at Latimer Road, hoping to get rid of those flashers sooner rather than later.
Baker Street ...and not of my choice! Seems I'm at the mercy of a diagonal and oblique interacting with a paraboloid.
IJB, that will be flux drift-through. Without wishing to help you too much, try a traverse to a parallel line. I'm dropping into Morden with a Crossmeads Spiral.
Redbridge, with snoods set to 'preheat'.
Ooh, preheated snoods. That'll be a bit painful if I inadvertantly straddle to Perivale.

Ouch!
Ouch! More than a little unmitigated shunting around here... I'll shelter at Morden for a bit.
Breaking free to Mile End with a Henderson Expansion.
Getting as far away from Morden as I can with a swift move to Verney Junction
I will defy what appears to be a developing problem with time zones and quadrant equations and escape to Ruislip Gardens
Oh, the pull of suburbia! A Huguenot's Gamble I presume Mr. D. Go further, visit the Shires. Junkin's Progression. Chesham beckons.
Hope you didn't part with too many podumes there. You stand the risk of tangential momentum follow-through which could see you unintentionally exit the game. Me, I'm urban, and some say urbane. Bank
Bank!
Canada Water!
Knip! Knip! Knip! Harrow-on-the-Hill.
knip yourself. Redbridge.
*farkle*
*farkle*
*forkle*
"There's no place like home. There's no place like home." Look Toto, we're back in Kensal Green.
New far-flung player starting at Saunakallio with extra sanding option to counteract the wrong kind of snowflakes on the line
stehvelo] Far-flung mentally or physically? Or both? Anyway, welcome aboard.
In response to your move, I'll straddle maniacally to Korppaanmaki.
Kiitos! Saunakallio is my local station from which I avoid tangential momentum by trundling south with my personalized quadrant equations to Tikkurila. I've a plane to catch. Korppaanmäki has never been straddled before by anyone, let alone maniacally, according to the 2005 MC Intergalactic Compendium. Congratulations!
stehvelo] Probably only managed it because I couldn't do the umlaut. Anyway, I should be able to bring us back to this realm with a quick Alperton / Amersham stabiliser.
Massive accrued spin and residual momentum still available even after queuing to exchange eurotokens for the local variety at Heathrow Central.
Walthamstow Central I think. careful now.
Perivale. I think.
Perivale station is great. A good view of the former Hoover factory, that 1930s art deco factory of the future. Currently occupied by a supermarket, apparently. Picking up 5 culture tokens and using residual momentum ("Maa-innnd tha FLAAAAN-dge!"), I swoop tubularly to Piccadilly Circus for the lights.
Careful stehvelo, they are setting a trap. That's the last advice I'll provide. Knerdling to Chalfont and Latimer.
I'd better move away from Chalfont & Latimer then as I've stood there for ages. Morden, *token flipping* ahoy!
Frisbeeing a culture token to IJB for preknerdled advice, gratefully acknowledged, I emulate the Hopkins Progression and digress to Covent Garden. For the mimes, natch. Ooh b*gger! 'Oo stole me walle'?
Leaves me free to move ellipsoidally to Oxford Circus for the Dreaming Spires and clown costumes.
Theydon Bois again, sorry.
Ah! The Hopkins' Flange (note the apostrophe - she came up with it not only after the Progression but also her unfortunate but amazing accident) takes me to... let's see, my chart says Euston Square.
Declaring Shenanigans at Burnt Oak.
*cough* Oval!
*russell* Square!
Tuj, you have a chart? *Hendon* Central!
Whisperer] *cough* No. FaRkLe, and here's 30 silver podumes for you.
hey why don't I get handouts? Lewisham.
With the Periwinkle pejorative as my guide...Chalk Farm
inevitably leading me to *PeriVale.
Ah ha! Invoking the Sixty-Fifth Perorgative I can thus use the Green/Green Lateral loop moving to Wood Green and jumping with the double twang bonus to Cockfosters.
Ah ha! Invoking the Sixty-Fifth Perorgative I can thus use the Green/Green Lateral loop moving to Wood Green and jumping with the double twang bonus to Cockfosters.
BZZZZZT! Repetition! But Rayners Lane will do me whether that last move was valid or not.
Euston while we're waiting to find out.
Caledonian Road seems like a good option from here. Now, if I can just avoid creating a vortex on the way through Holborn...
Dropping Line Velocity to 1.5 from 15 with the intention of causing board rotation as a result of kick-back inertia. This should take me off on a diagonal and shift me to the adjoining paraboloid, hopefully leaving me resting at Harrow on the Hill with the rest of you in confusion.
Not only in confusion but also in spoon. I shall retreat to Morden and await developments.
CHalfont & Latimer, waiting.
Have just been shunted into a siding at West Harrow. Come on, who was it?
innocent - I was quietly restacking my podumes at Southfields.
Out of shunt by shuttling to Rayners Lane.
Bank - L.V. generally 2 rising to 3 shortly.
Finally I'm able to re-enter (this is only my fifth move in this game despite playing the 9th move back in January 2003), Boolbar's Gants Hill really knocked me out ... two years I've been sitting on the sidelines waiting to play Oval ! Phew ! At last !
You're not leaving much choice for a new fellow! Earls Court I suppose then, despite it being a junior move.
Skittering to Wanstead. Sorry Blob, I don't think that does much for you, but I had to secure the potential peach podume point on the diagonal at Homerton.
I'll just drop in here with Colindale.
Employing Watson's Strategy to take a diagonal to Baker Street thus impeaching the Jubilee Line to the river.
Dropping by with Clapham Common to sidle out via a broken ticket barrier.
London Bridge, bonuses applied for (six week wait expected).
[Blob] I see you are back! Gants Hill
Boolbar] Or at least was... Pudding Mill Lane, knip invoked on IJB.
Ouch! Heading South to Green Park to chill out, leaving a Henderson Expansion as a parting gesture. Deal with it as you will.
The 1833 Half Scrotum to Battersea Park. (...Not very inventive, though)
Hmm. Kentish Town, hoping my scrotum is a whole one.
What are you people on?
[Efros] The 18.42 from Sanity, calling all stations to Madness Junction.
Calling Kathmandu Time with a line to Timbuktu
The Dark Side of the Moon
Ooh, a tough one to follow. I'll have to bifurcate to A Night At The Opera/A Day At The Races.
Going mad with Locust Abortion Technician / Trout Mask Replica
Taking my prudhommes to Piccadilly Circus where I intend to go to Starbucks.
EUSTON!!
Angel
Inexplicably found an orange podume, so on to Canada Water. Hey, don't shoot the messenger.
Ah, remembering Stratagem 3: Revenge of the Stovold I'd have to pick Morden.
day? night? dark? light? That leaves Temple on the right.
A rather rapid Victoria.
out of patience, Blackfriars
Not again... Tooting Bec
En route Paddington
back to the Circle with Sloane Square
missing the point completely, BANK!
Aldwych please
(Still awaiting developments four months later) *Farkle*.
I'd better °farkle° as well.
Turnham Green!
uhm... Lewisham, sideways, for three and then three more.
Gordon Bennett, I haven't been here for a couple of years! How are the lot of you, loathsome spongers to the lot!...have half a crown and Morden
why hello Little Jim. I think you'll find I am not a sponger, being closer to a leech in technique. Turnham Green.
Redbridge
New Cross Gate, keeping powder dry for now. Well...if seven years between moves isn't dry I don't know what is.
Impressively dry, that. And still a good aggressive move after it! Gallions Reach
Which puts me on a unicycle somewhere north of the river, looks like Mile End.
Highbury & Islington, straddling the Chelsea-Hackney Line and the East London Line extension, a move so staggeringly illegal it glows in the dark.
Woah. It's silenced the game for THREE WEEKS, it was that staggeringly illegal. I suppose I have no choice but to BZZZZZZZZZT! for Offside!
Right, on with the game then? A throw-in to Gants Hill.
passed to Pimlico, which I spelled with two 'p's a minute ago. heh.
...and driven boringly down the left wing to Arsenal
Hmm. This one needs some energy. I suggest a non-tactical bifurcation with spiral tendencies: Oval / Alperton. Hopefully people will try to deal with this problem rather than running away, but then tactical bad play always was risky...
Seven Sisters / Ongar. not a lot else to be said there.
Which leaves me cornered: Paddington (Circle)/Tower Hill. May as well yodel for a bit.
Oops, ah well. I seem to do this a lot. Ravenscourt Park / Ravenscourt Park, one heading north, the other south. I feel a little lost already.
Enforced lapse in play means I can reunify at Finsbury Park. Thank heavens for that!
Do I detect the faint, tinny smell of another zeroed line velocity in quadrant five? Bromley By Bow it is, then.
Cheeky play Botherer, though you've reversed the LV and I can shunt you to Leytonstone via Turnham Green for your troubles. Sorry!
Negative LV? Now there's a novelty.
Which leads me, neatly, to White City of course.
I see another four months have passed. Time for some decisive action, methinks. * Farkle *
Taking a tentative leave of absence from east London and sodding off to Tooting Broadway for last orders. Mate in three.
Herne Hill collecting unused toots.
Time to invoke the Third Left-Handed Rule of Dominance - Archway
East - West moves, followed by some unused toots & some Left Hand Dominance... getting rather kinky in here...
Which leaves no choice but Pontoon Dock invoking the new DLR route rule!
So there!
Royston Vasey a local move for local people.
A strange situation...nearly enough for the Waterloo & City line to be diddled, which has never happened in my lifetime. Sudbury Town out of sheer fear.
After 3 changes of underwear... Rhyffedd Coed, just in time for 'Snowdon Ranger' to arrive, with the mid-day summer special service.
I'll just change to a new suit thanks, with a step towards Alexandra Palace
In that case York Road
By jove, I just broke my red podume in surprise. Misses turn.
Well that leaves me with no choice but... Ludgate Hill and let that be a lesson to you!
Anyone mind if I just jump right in with both feet and a non-skid buffer, i'll make my play to Surrey Quays
Oh my goodness - I've been asleep. Sorry everyone, Croxley.
(Playing what seems to be my annual move in this game) - Pimlico side-swiping Salamander Pudding. One purple podume please.
Take yer' podume and off with you. That being my last purple I feel I am no longer safe on the defense in the southern regions. Whitechapel seems the only safe bet and may get me into a more balanced offensive set. As today is Little Ricky Day (Marking the arrival of Little Ricky on I Love Lucy in 1953) I believe I am entitled to three Red podumes from each of you.
[SP] Three Red you say? You're welcome - I wasn't using them anyway. Oh well, new year, new strategy. * Farkle *.
Oh dear, I'm stuck between Bank and Monument. How the hell did that happen?
Mill Hill to put it simply...
Just to see if this thing is still awake Knotty Ash.
Seven Sisters, bifurcation wild.
I'll bifurcate away then, as is my wont: Warren Street / Kilburn.
Liverpool Street / Tower Hill HA-HA! Take that. Winning is finally in my grasp.
Am I too late to join the long game...I have a 'get into St Johns Wood Free' card?
Oh my, everyone's welcome in the Long Game. While I'm here, Cannon Street / Walthamstow Central.
Well then - I'll play my 'get into St Johns Wood Free' card, and bifurcate the move, placing equally 4 red counters and 3 yellow squibs on St Johns Wood and Finchley Road. Not too bold a first move I hope?
Poplar / Swiss Cottage, obviously.
Camden Town / Seven Sisters, not so obviously.
Ahhhh! A little lateral thinking suggests the not so lateral Dollis Hill
Damn you tube station, you! Dollis Hill.
Ha ha!!! Dollis Hill *bugger*
What a lot of simpletons you are, one guy moves to Dollis Hill and you cant find a way to stay out yourselves? I suggest you all go back to the grammar school leagues and leave this game to REAL players. Dollis Hill, ahhhh crap, anybody have some crow?
[Salamander Pudding] I still have a "Get out of Dollis FREE" card.....coff.
Thanks my friend, would you be interested in a trade now?
Maybe SP...but careful who you call 'friend'...You may say other 'things' when you see my latest Locks move...Ah heck...*passes card*. See you at North End on our head to head...*smirk*
Paying the cost of LV redoubling, I make a break for Cockfosters.
With podumes tumbling left, right and centre I make a break for Bermondsey. Oh, the humanity!
Well, I think Temple.
Seems a little slow lately. Ladbroke Grove ought to speed things up.
Shoot... If noone else is around then Mornington Crescent Oh yeah. My first win.
I object!!! MC after Ladbroke grove, and you call that a win!!! What about the green podumes you left scattered on the inbound stretch? Bit untidy!!! Unless....no...NO You played that move didn't you?The one with the thing and the reversed whatsit....that make it a fair win then! Well done ;-)
I was watching "The History of MC: 1346 - 1491 Not Including 1408" on DVD this weekend and realized that any moves to MC made on the 16th of March must be preceeded by the killing of a roman emperor.
Bermondsey
I find Seven Sisters should be a good counter to your Bermondsey....
Seven Sisters would be great on my counter, however I'll make do with the ladies around Whitechapel
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