BS: Mornington Crescent

Subject: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 10:39 AM

Could anyone who understands this game please help. I was introduced to it over lunch today and my brain exploded.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 11:28 AM

A but which version? I find the 1965 version where sideways moves count double, and if you bifurcate, you miss a turn, the most fun. You can pass anything during the course of this variation, except wind.
Hope that explains it a bit.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 11:29 AM

Covent Garden

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 11:32 AM

I think you will have to ask Humphrey Littleton.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 11:43 AM

*cries*
I don't know which version, they were talking about different coloured tokens, Ghosts (which I assumed were ghost stations), Dorris Hill Loops, polarising the diagonals, shunts, line velocities and a million and one other things I didn't follow...

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 11:58 AM

Click Here, Edain

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:01 PM

I believe there is a debased version which includes the Docklands Light Railway. But you'd better steer clear of that kind of stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:04 PM

Or you could ask Humphrey Lyttleton.
Turnham Green [Yes it does]
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: belfast
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:23 PM

I feel sorry for non-Radio4 addicts whho stumble across this thread. I could be accused of stereotyping but I would love to hear an Englishperson explaining to an American why "Mornington Crescent" is funny. The Irish already know that the English are quaint and lovable eccentrics.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:24 PM

Chalk Farm

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:25 PM

Place d'Austerlitz

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,Vectis
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:37 PM

Ooh sneaky Kevin.
Hownslow East

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:39 PM

Tomnahurich St

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Micca
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:40 PM

Cockfosters.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 12:45 PM

Micca!!!!!! Such filth, this is a clean game, played by intellectuals, wot always speaks proper.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Watson
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 01:03 PM

Bank

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Gareth
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 01:13 PM

Kairdiff bay

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 01:21 PM

Mornington Crescent ! (Thanks to Gareth's use of the Splott gambit).

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 01:23 PM

More splatt than Splott methinks.
Giok
[Caerdydd?]

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Gareth
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 01:49 PM

Spell it Caerdydd and no Cardiff native would recognise it, pronounce it Kairdiff and thats another matter. As BJ prooves.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: lady penelope
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 01:59 PM

Point of order, Giok's reprimand of Micca's contribution was in no way nasty enough!

New game.......................Down street


TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: greg stephens
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 02:21 PM

Dont try to explain to Americans why Mornington Crescent is funny. It isnt funny. So highly developed is the English sense of irony that the fact that it isnt funny is reckoned to make it funny.
Is this Wembley?

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 02:25 PM

Down Street?

That's a terrible move!

The escalators don't run there on a Sunday. Invoking the Yokahama defence, I'm going to:

Liverpool Street (obvious I know)

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 02:43 PM

Preston Road

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: RolyH
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 02:53 PM

I usually confine my game plan to the Northern Line.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 02:56 PM

Greg Stephens: "Is this Wembley?"

No, it's Thursday!

(very old joke!)

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: greg stephens
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 02:58 PM

Balham, four square on the Northern Line.
Peter Sellers variation played, wait one turn

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:00 PM

Angel

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:14 PM

Angel? I've have gone for Green Park myself.

The crossover flanges don't always work at Angel, and certainly not on a sunday.

Are you playing with the signal siding rules?


Have I answered your question yet, Edain?

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:26 PM

Due to the high line velocity on the Metropolitan line and taking I move to Moorgate and block anyone at Liverpool Lime Street

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: RolyH
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:28 PM

Tooting Broadway

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:31 PM

Tooting Bec

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:32 PM

ok, you've got the idea, Edain.

Saying thanks would have been nice...

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: RolyH
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:36 PM

Ah McGrath you caught me with the obvious Northern Line double Tooting gambit!

I should have seen it coming.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Lanfranc
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:48 PM

Canada Wharf

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:59 PM

I cross the river to Elephant and Castle, placing all those on the northern line in spoon

Thanks Guest!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:59 PM

oooh, sneaky Alan.....okay, it's going to have to be East Ham according to the weather forecast and the triple mind the gap points..Ha!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:04 PM

I'm sorry Morticia, but East Ham violates not having stations with 2 or more 'A's following each other.

I'm no expert, but Kings Cross would have been a good move

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:07 PM

Canada Wharf is not a valid move under the approved rules. Docklands Light Railway!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:16 PM

But surely the double A rule only applies on Monday,Wednesday and Thursday morning??

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:19 PM

My mistake, Morticia

I'd forgotten that.

I'd contend that Baker Street would have been a far better move, though

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: greg stephens
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:22 PM

Big Bill Broonzy

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:26 PM

Ah, but it's an odd numbered month so the Double A rule is valid all weekend as well, although IMHO the best move would have been Tottenham Court Road

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 04:33 PM

I can quite understand how you might not like this game, though I have me suspicion that it's because you're not very good at it, and a bad loser.

I'm at Green Park, I really need to get to Hyde if I'm going to win. Broonzy stuff just distracts

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Micca
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 05:28 PM

Kevin,Llanfranc, Canada Wharf????, does you mean Canada Water, or Canary Wharf, arent they on the new Jubilee line extension??? any way
My nove Caledonian Road, with extra ponts for passing a prison( on the left)

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 05:51 PM

I once lived on Mornington Crescent, while studying at the University of London. It was a not very nice bedsit, second floor (turks above), but it was very close to the University. The dreary bottom end of Camden Town, with dreadful public housing clogging up the streets. A long walk past Euston Station, which, as I recall, was for a substantial part of the time, a serious target for the IRA. I made it a rule never to use the Mornington Crescent tube station (which was bypassed faily often anyway), so I bar myself voluntarily from this game.   

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: greg stephens
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 06:02 PM

Thread creep!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 06:26 PM

Can I ?
Hyde Park Corner

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 07:01 PM

moves north to Leicester Square this quarting the circle line and alliagning the Northern Line n-s

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Noreen
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 07:33 PM

Ansdell & Fairhaven! Triple points for the sea being absent for the day.