Let's all cheer up

Re: Let's all cheer up

Christopher Saul — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:41:08 GMT

I've just realised that it's the 11th October in and it's not an olympic year so there's a little loophole I can play...

East ham

Re: Let's all cheer up

James Laidlaw — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:10:23 GMT

Right of passage and ramblers/walkers access paths rulings should allow an appropriate use of New Cross Gate at this stage of the game.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Christopher Saul — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:39:28 GMT

I'm going to make a DLR manoeuvre, and play

East India

Re: Let's all cheer up

Mark Hedberg — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:18:53 GMT

Excellent. That means I can use the MC Hammer rules and play Paddington. (didn't you know? the rap star is a well known fanatic of this gentleman's game, so much so that he uses the initials rather than his full name of Mornington C. Hammer in order to avoid anyone accidentally playing the move when calling his name during official game sessions.)

Re: Let's all cheer up

Thomas Johnson — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:00:16 GMT

[quote user="Christopher Saul"]

Fulham Palace Road is actually quite a brilliant piece of strategy, frequently thought - incorrectly - by those north of land's end as being boring. It's hard to follow really.

I think I'll take a new tack...

Balham.

[/quote]

Under the 1976 amendments that brings disused stations into play, so...

British Museum

Re: Let's all cheer up

Christopher Saul — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:08:05 GMT

Fulham Palace Road is actually quite a brilliant piece of strategy, frequently thought - incorrectly - by those north of land's end as being boring. It's hard to follow really.

I think I'll take a new tack...

Balham.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Bob Russell — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:38:57 GMT

[quote user="Mike Dale"]

Damn. I didn't get to read my copy. I've been stuck on the London Underground for three days! Anyone know where the circle line ends?

[/quote]

With a big fine?

Boring but safe - Fulham Palace Road.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Mike Dale — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:29:22 GMT

Damn. I didn't get to read my copy. I've been stuck on the London Underground for three days! Anyone know where the circle line ends?

Re: Let's all cheer up

Mark Hedberg — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 22:09:12 GMT

Brixton, so soon? Alright, that's a Reece-Tidbury gambit, so if you go back to B. J Smythe-Warrington's excellent monograph on early 19th century games, you'll find the Left Hand Orthodox Defense on page 192. So I call Turnpike Lane.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Eamon McAllister — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 21:14:10 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]

Bit obvious, but everyone would agree I'm an

Angel

[/quote] Bada Bing Antony but we at the Inland Revenue aren't that gullible. Your stunt doubles " Fat" Tony Soprano and James Gandolfini may both have joined the heavenly chorus but you're still posting. Death and Taxes my friend Death and Taxes. Brixton

Re: Let's all cheer up

Anthony Todd — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 19:30:20 GMT

Bit obvious, but everyone would agree I'm an

Angel

Re: Let's all cheer up

Christopher Saul — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:24:21 GMT

I think it was 1st October 2013, but in any case that issue was only re-stating a long standing rule. If anyone actually thinks that Mornington Crescent is an appropriate move, then by default it is an illegal move. Such transgressions of the rules generally at least re-start the game; and with this in mind I'll play....

Arnos Grove.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Bob Russell — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:33:14 GMT

[quote user="Mike Dale"]

Nobody's looking - time to state the obvious

"MORNINGTON CRESCENT!!"

Ha, I win. [/quote]

Did you not read the latest update in 'Mornington Crescent Mislaid' magazine informing players that as from 1st October 2014 the so called winner is actually the loser.

Appeals will only be heard if completed on the back of three plain envelopes sent in with the original appeals form printed in afore said publication.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Mike Dale — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:18:50 GMT

Nobody's looking - time to state the obvious

"MORNINGTON CRESCENT!!"

Ha, I win.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Niall Taylor — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:47:11 GMT

Balham (gateway to the south)

Cheers,

Niall

Re: Let's all cheer up

Thomas Johnson — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:22:09 GMT

[quote user="Christopher Saul"]

Well, if you're going to invoke article 3a of the motorway network convention (1983) in such an obvious way, I'll follow by starting with the service stations....

Watford Gap!

[/quote]

Hmm, being mindful of that Gap, I think I'm forced back onto the underground, so:

Embankment

P.S. Sorry for the delay in playing, rather a long conversation with a client, very difficult to get her to understand what I was trying to explain to her, on holiday from North Wales apparently...

Re: Let's all cheer up

Christopher Saul — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:43:47 GMT

Well, if you're going to invoke article 3a of the motorway network convention (1983) in such an obvious way, I'll follow by starting with the service stations....

Watford Gap!

Re: Let's all cheer up

Mark Hedberg — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:51:04 GMT

...I'm shocked. Just because the Deja Vu rule was invoked twice (bringing the Abernathy Addendum into play, and you have to play Finchley East? In the 1880s you just couldn't do that; women and individuals of a sensitive disposition were known to pass out at the mention, never mind the gross lewdness of the actual play! Playing it at international level was actually a violation of the Geneva accords, punishable at their Majesty's pleasure until 1922! (Repeal of this law was a little known codicil of the Washington Naval Treaty, incidentally.) Playing Finchley East was still liable to get you hauled up in front of your local Club Committee on Morals and Gentlemanly Disposition until the mid 1960s.

Yes, it's unspeakably effective, but twenty years ago they'd write that move with an asterisk, as it was considered unprintable. I honestly expected more from a gentleman and scholar of your obvious breeding!

I'll play Spaghetti Junction, for obvious reasons.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Christopher Saul — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:39:21 GMT

Right. that's it. I was hoping not to have to do this play, but I see no other way,

Finchley East.

There. I've said it.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Francisco Gomez — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:17:21 GMT

Hmm, If a vet makes a 'cock up' of these dimensions they usually get struck off. I wonder what would happen to the DC members if they recognise to have made a mistake... Will they resign and let other important people in the country occupy their seats?

[quote user="Bob Russell"]

Only the Daily Mail could have made this level of cock-up

[/quote]

What about Melanie Philips? Nah, just joking...

Re: Let's all cheer up

Mark Hedberg — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:48:37 GMT

Now then, Bob, they only broke away because of the flagrant disrespect that the 1977 Ordination fans showed to the 1955 Geometric Pattycake Rule.

Just to prove my point, I'll play Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which can be parlayed into the Royalty Game.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Bob Russell — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:34:23 GMT

If we are lowering ourselves to the Landmark rules introduced by the rebel fraternity that broke away in 2006 then King William Walk so we can see the Cutty Sark.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Wren — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:22:26 GMT

[quote user="Christopher Saul"]

I think this calls for a change of dimension. I'm going to perform a verticalification maneuver and play...

The shard.

[/quote]

Is there room up there with all the dreadlocked Greenpeace types?

I'll stick to the three dimensional gameplay mode - Cleopatra's Needle

Re: Let's all cheer up

Christopher Saul — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:36:39 GMT

I think this calls for a change of dimension. I'm going to perform a verticalification maneuver and play...

The shard.

Re: Let's all cheer up

Niall Taylor — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:20:53 GMT

... and I'm in the mood for Cockfosters

Niall