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The Great Bear
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This is just the same as normal rules except the names of the stations are replaced with those on the picture "The Great Bear" by Simon Patterson.
growse
Well, I suppose I should kick things off here with
Robert Maxwell
Chalky
and I s'pose I should take a ganders at the pic, r'else I'm stuffed
rab
I've tried tracking one down on the web, but to no avail. If anyone succeeds, let me know and I'll stick a link in the "flannel panel" above.
Ibid
Google image search doesn't reveal any legible ones I'm afraid... Meanwhile,
Gary Lineker
Wol
Groucho Marx
it always seemed a shame that Patterson did not manage to find interchanges that fit thematically on both the interchanging lines ...
snorgle
Couldn't we just make them up, or guess?
Margaret Thatcher
!
rab
In which case
Isaac Hayes
.
Chalky
In defensive mode with
Bobby Moore.
Now, HE is definitely up there.
snorgle
Erm,
Bagpuss
.
growse
I parry to
James Baker
Ibid
I definitely recall that
Vic Reeves
was on it, oddly enough. Are we going with the make-em-up version then?
rab
[Ibid] Why not, sounds like the most fun I've had, since, erm, er...
John Kettley
.
snorgle
John Craven
Grant
Googie Withers
which is quite painfull I'm told
Ibid
It could be very painful to be on the wrong end of a case of
Nobby Stiles
...
rab
Leaving play wide open for
Wincey Willis
Chalky
Getting carried away with a reverse shunt into
Bob Carolgees
.
Big mistake.
Puckoon
Rincewind
Ibid
Super lard. Oops, I'll try again.
Sue Pollard
rab
Christopher Biggins
* applause *
Ibid
Putting the boot in -
Alex Ferguson
Boolbar
I do have a readable JPEG of the Great Bear map. Anyone want me to email it to them so they can upload it somewhere ? Or shall I just play
Burt Kwouk
?
Bob the dog
(Playing from memory)
Jimmy Hill
. Home at
Rod Stewart
Boolbar
It's a bit late now but . . . .
Map!
(360K)
snorgle
So we're aiming for Bogie?
snorgle
(oh and thanks Boolbar!)
Ibid
Ernest Shackleton
then.
Boolbar
Escaping down
Thirty Comedians Line
to
Tony Hancock
.
LotUS
Zog I
, home at
Lin Piao
.
Ibid
Four Airedales. Blast, done it again.
Thor Heyerdahl
Boolbar
Which means I can run rings around you all and head to
Saturn
.
Lib
Returning from a while away, will put my toe in the water with
Louis X
Ibid
Colin Powell
, declaring
here we go again
Inkspot
*
...and so with thanks to Boolbar...
entering a bit late with
Kate Adie
and declaring home naturally with St. David.
Boolbar
Fawn Hall
inverting the
snoods
.
Lib
Using the lesser known
primary colour inversion
and therefore trumping with
Eric the Red
rab
Hurtling towards
Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards
(though not, admittedly, terribly fast).
Lib
I can't take it any longer. Putting us all out of our misery with
Humphrey Bogart
Audience
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Lib*
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