BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game

Subject: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Stu
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 05:02 AM

Seeing as Cheddar Gorge has started so well, and we haven't done this for a while, I thought a game of Mornington Crescent may go down well. Not wanting anyone to interrupt the flow of play, and realising not everyone is familiar with the game, this page will help you find your feet.

Rules in force for this game: Stick to the official game layout so well all know where we are. Diagonals are allowed but not if they incur repetition. Fouls will not be tolerated. We'll play the Piccadilly Line as east-west only to make it easier for beginners, and we'll stick to the Uxbridge Amendments of 1867.

I'll get us started with an easy one:

Fulham Broadway

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 07:04 AM

Mornington Crescent.

I win (Fulbert Broadwood rule #6).

Thank you one and all.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST,Nellie Clatt
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 07:40 AM

Very naice for you all.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 07:53 AM

Sorry Bill the Collie but that is not allowed. See dogs (other than Guide Dogs) ruling of 1973 enabled under the Battersea Homing Instinct edict.

Theydon Bois.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST,The Barden of England at work
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 08:17 AM

Do the Uxbridge Amendments of 1867 allow inclusion of the Docklands Light Railway, or only the Metropolitan Line, which of course then would include Paris - so - Pyramides.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 08:26 AM

Aha! a reverse goosecreature to

Swiss Cottage

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Pied Piper
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 08:52 AM

Meols Cop

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Crystal
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 08:53 AM

in that case.....

Earls Court

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 10:49 AM

Seeing as Queensway is closing for 12 months and the Piccadilly Line as east-west only and diagonals aren't allowed if they incur repetition it looks like EDGEWARE ROAD under Huygens rules.
JB

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 11:09 AM

Bond Street!
Double reverse me, will you?

Bunnhabhain

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 12:36 PM

It's gone 5pm so I can rotate to Wimbledon. That automatically blocks cross moves.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Davetnova
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 01:10 PM

Goodge Street (and it's sunny)

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 01:29 PM

Down Street - last visited by Billy Connolly and before that Winston Churchill slept there.

Old but good move - who saw it coming?

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 01:36 PM

Wembley Park, northbound on a semi-fast Watford

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Mingulay
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 01:57 PM

Croxley Green, bugger fell asleep, Watford.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 06:16 PM

Ambridge

Extra-urban exclusion rule.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 07:39 PM

Euston - on a cheap day return, so still have a grimmage in hand.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Jos
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 08:06 PM

and then back to Hollerton Junction

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Micca
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 03:30 AM

Ah Thats easy, Ongar

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Billy Suggers
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 04:29 AM

Sorry Micca - Ongar's declared foul because of the scorpions! you'll have to do a Bremerhafen Loop reverse at Blake Hall ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Stu
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 04:45 AM

Pinner - ha!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 05:15 AM

By the Waterston-Blakely-Goodenough stipulation, permitting noncontiguous translations whenever Basling's rule is not invoked...Park Street Under. (On the Red Line, no less!)

Aloha,
Mark

(And I don't want to hear any of that "You bloody Yanks always cheat" claptrap. This was fair and square.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 06:33 AM

Invoking advanced Beeching Reverse Theorem, not passing GO and giving 200 pounds to charity:-

Ditchford Halt

Red Line indeed!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Pied Piper
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 07:47 AM

As it's a Tuesday and there's an R in the month I invoke Glodick's rule off linear spiral superposition.

Edinburgh Waverley

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 08:27 AM

Fairlop

That'll bugger things up nicely for a while

epn

PS - it's a hell of a long time since Fairlop was played

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 08:37 AM

By invoking the use of the Buckminster Fuller Dome strategy along with T.A.R.D.I.S. technology, give my regards to BROAD STREET
JB

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Crystal
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 08:58 AM

Does a double cross onto the Jubilee Line cause me to fall foul of Crosshangers convention? If I double around the circle line I can hit...

High Street Kensington.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Stu
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 09:12 AM

Tooting Bec.

Opens the way for a Scruttocks Oblique methinks . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST,Mr Red on the line
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 10:17 AM

Vauxhall Cross - good enough for James Bond, handy for MI5 - all those moles.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 10:28 AM

Lundy Where do you think the Jubilee line extention went?

BTW, Edinburgh Waverly was a foul. We had it shut for a few days as there was someone threatening to jump from the bridge above it. The Painting the Forth bridge manovure makes it legal with a diversion via Inverness though...

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 11:09 AM

Skye - and there is no reversal on Wednesdays.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 12:44 PM

But in New Zealand it is now Thursday, so Aoraki* Empress hut. No redoubling at over 6000 ft. Or are we playing on Mudcat time?

*Mt. Cook

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Col K
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 01:35 PM

Under army rules version 47.5

Bott Lane Halt

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: RolyH
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 02:05 PM

I only know the one move - Tooting Broadway (change at Bank)

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 05:38 PM

Ah but what a move to know! And borne on an opportune air current I find myself in Stockwell.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 05:55 PM

Temple-Temple-Temple-Temple-Temple-Temple-Temple-Temple.....

Help, I'm stuck on the Circle line!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Gray D
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 07:59 PM

It's tricky, but can I go Wimbledon?

If not then Shadwell, under the "Lost Grandad" rule, obviously.

Gray D

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 01:14 AM

to nine elms reach, we cheek-to-cheek were dancing

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: alison
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 03:53 AM

(is ISIHAC still being broadcast? If so any chance of someone recording a few for me? I have all the CDs (I think) they have made... wonderful for those long trips in a car we do in Oz.
thanks alison)

BTW

Oxford Circus

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 07:29 AM

And finally, on a reverse transposition

BOND STREET....

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Splott Man
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 07:38 AM

Llanwtyd Wells

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Crystal
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 07:42 AM

aaaah thanks Splott I can now excute the infamous Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
manuvre!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 08:32 AM

Under the Thatcher rules - Huddersfield

epn

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Davetnova
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 08:41 AM

Tower Hill

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 09:02 AM

Oranges and Lemons
Say the bells of St Clements
I'll give you five farthings
Say the bells of St Martins
When will you pay me
Say the bells of Old Baily
When I am Rich
Say the bells of Shoreditch
When will that be
Says the bells of Stepney
I do not know
Says the great bell at Bow.

The other tour of London


Oh, OLD STREET.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Davetnova
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 09:42 AM

more than you ever wanted to know

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 09:42 AM

OLD STREET? But that puts you in NIP, and allows your opponents to pass water!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 10:33 AM

"Gay go up and gay go down,
To ring the bells of London Town"
When London Town's asleep in bed,
You'll hear the bells ring overhead.


Mudchute- Docklands light railway allowable after 10 am only

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: Crystal
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 11:46 AM

As it is after noon where I am I can make a hop, skip and long jump to

Glasgow Queen Street

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Cresent - April Game
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 12:07 PM

You could on a Tuesday. But I have diverted you to CREWE.