So I've been thinking about this all day. I know it's a dirty move and the moral guilt has weighed heavily on my mind throughout my board meeting tonight (so much so that I agreed to do way more than I intended to -a form of penance, I guess), but -after consulting the Brooke-Taylor-Brandreth-Deayton tome "How to win MC and infuriate people" for legality issues, I have to be true to my competitive streak and say Embankment.

Barking ------ side! Barkingside!

(did i fool you? aw cmon)

Happy International Women's Day, by the way.

Oh Monster I confess to very slight envy at you determination to weave - zig and zag - through the entrails of justification by Brooke Taylor et al. Humph would groan! Humph groans a lot though, but I salute your daring.

Ut almost had us fooled, almost... woof woof.

And so I grasp the nettle and give you Pudding Mill Lane ;)

I considered another intenational leap to a station bearing a woman's name, in honour of the day, but I think that my move in tribute to John Inman who died today in Paddington, is more likely to get me to MC before you.

Plus he was known internationally and was very effeminate, so it's almost appropriate that way too :)

I'm free.

R.I.P. Mr Inman, in your honor I move Queensway

A touching tribute, Mr. Toad. :sniff:

The only response can be Tooting Broadway. :D

So sad.

Wendy Richards, Miss Brahms of Grace Bros was talking about John Inman on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, yesterday morning. It is the programme without which my day simply cannot begin, anyway as usual I digress.

She said about him that his humour and his jokes were of the 'self-cleaning' variety, to which no-one could really take offence. Interesting way of describing him and so true. He was unique and will be terribly missed especially as Christmas panto dame, to which he brought sheer magic.

On with the motley and I give you COVENT GARDEN

I happened across this tournement on the way to the IOTD, and was elated to find the beutiful game being played right under my very nose. As a long time lurker/first time poster I feel it fitting that my first post be on a game of Mornington Crescent, (Or Mornis as we call it in Yorkshire).

I am going to take the unusual step of explaining my move, to aid those more inexperienced players. My initial thought after seeing Covent Garden was to mimic Monster and CzinZumerzets moves of Baker Street, but this time changing from the pink to the brown, but that would leave the way open for a Kasparczec Bypass to MC on the next move (admittedy only for the more experienced player, but you never know.)

Shooters' Hill would be the obvious choice, as it is a clear run up from Covent Garden, without any opportunity for other players to Chip, Chunk, Dip or Wipe me out of the game, but I thought that was too easy.

I settled on taking a move from a classic game (Puzzom V Wankowski from the 3rd annual Seniors tournament in Gibralatar, 1926) but renaming it to conform with the 21st Century game board naming structure, and have gone for a crafty Millennium Dome!

Enjoy.

Welcome to the cellar, Ogwen.

I'm going to pass on this turn as something has come up which require my full mental attention. I can see you are a seasoned pro at this and I shall be giving your move some deep thought as I swim my laps this morning (provided I haven't been arrested for using physical force to resolve the "issue" I must attend to first :mad: )

A second welcome to the cellar Ogwen. Another Brit in the cellar is sooooo welcome:rolleyes:

So you are a player, so you will have gathered that we are not actually adhering to any of the modern tournament rules employing instead more of a creative schema which could I suppose be said to mirror quite closely the British Antarctic Survey system (ii) designed obviously to encourage the circulation as opposed to actual movement. Passion not Perambulation. Sorry:)

However, I feel sure you will agree that Millennium Dome does present an aesthetic problem in view of its proximity to The Royal Observatory and 'that line...'. So not to put too fine a point on it, and being just a little bit scared of Monster's worrying reference to 'physical force' I am therefore playing a classic Saturday move or 'purl' to the west with MONUMENT on the Circle. Thereby ends the clue!

Just realised that the yellow is losing the letters for MONUMENT but the circle is the issue.

HAHAAAA that leaves you wide open for me to take a BANK

Quell Fromage! Employing 'Bal-Ham, Gateway to the South' as a Sellarite (geddit geddit?) precedent, WATERLOO and may I remind players that the City Link is temporarily off limits.

Ya know, it's just gotta be Wembley Park

CASCADE OPENING!!!!
Green Park

Caramba...and St James Park Ola!

Fools! bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa.........

Mornington Crescent.

:D

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I finally got to post in this thread!!! I'm so happy!

I don't believe it, I simply don't believe it!

Fab move Mon utterly and Absolutely Fabulous. Well done you.:)

Bags I start the new one.

Paddington

sorry, just needed a little R&R after that exciting coup-de-grace.

Time to up the ante: Embankment.

So I'm thinking you must all want to see me playing with myself? this ain't an image thread, you know....

Canary Wharf, just because I like to see you squirm!

Oooh, sneaky, but begs Blackwall

Whitechapel, and clocks Spring forward tonight, another hour lost forever:neutral:

Ours went forward a couple of week ago. :rolleyes: North Greenwich, of course.......

Stratford, and I'm missing that hour already:zzz:

Embankment

Waterloo

Ha! Kings Cross.

I'm thinking there must have been flooding on the line and you had to lie on the roof and paddle? Quicker to leave the train behind and swim, I would have thought.... :p

Holborn

No earthquake here in the west, imagine being in Baker Street when the earth shook...:eek:

And the Snoozing Fare-Dodger move gets me to....

Mornington Cresent.

:p

CONGRATULATIONS! WE HAVE A WINNER, LAYDEEZ AN' GENNLEMEN!

Good show, monster - I never saw it coming!

Bravo.

Another bump in case people missed the other thread I bumped.
Humphrey Lyttleton (host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - the Radio 4 show that featured the Mornington Crescent Game) died yesterday aged 86, following heart surgery.

I'm in Mournington.

Oh no :(

There must be something wrong my my reception of the ISIHAC mailng list.. nothing came through about it.

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Chigwell.

Oh. Interesting move. I'm going to have to ponder that one.



[eta] Oh hang on.., would Leytonstone be a legal move from there?

Can't see a legal problem with it. Not a move i would have made, though.

Embankment.

Oh bugger, I walked right into that one.

Let's go old school: Sloane Square

Don't you have some papers to mark or something?

:/

...

Angel.

Invoking Rule 43 of the Edingstone Convention handbook, 3rd edition (revised 1987), I say Kennington.

Sent by thought transference

I'm not entirely sure that Kennington is a legal move.

Because of the unsanctioned consonant progression listed in the annotations of the Maybry Protocols.

Fourth Edition.

Fourth Edition? What a racket! They just came out with the third edition two years ago. I guess old Professor Slopwith had to pay for his vacation to the Mull of Kintyre. How are we supposed to keep up with this stuff if he changes it just as you finish reading the damn thing?

Well, you could subscribe to the Compendium.

Amateur.

AHA! Mornington Crikey is that a kookaburra? Cockfosters.

Saint Pancreas

How can you liver with yourself after pulling that stunt?

Waterloo. you forced my hand. :mad:

Mudchute.

Sent by thought transference

Arsenal.

I see where you're going with this .....
Cockfosters.

Ah, now see, we're round in circles. I'm going to try something unconventional: Kew Gardens

I'll see your Kew Gardens and raze you a Burnt Oak. (Two can play at this game)

oh, brillig.

you're a fucking natural, foot.


These brits get so convoluted with their inverted crossings and hybrid juxtapostions and what not... I dunno. I just love how direct that move was. no fucking around... no mamby pamby apologist crap. just a good old smash mouth Burnt Oak. Right in the gut.

In the same spirit, I'll set the ball again and drop a Paddington Greene like it's hot. Let's show them how we do this shit in the US, bro.

Word.

The Balham's in their court now. Let's see what Acton they take next.

Oh oh, the colonials are at it with a vengeance. That opens up the possibility of using a manoeuvre from the Hetherington Protocol. Hyde Park.

Sent by thought transference