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.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 11:21 AM

Kirkham and Wesham Collect a green token for stopping before Blackpool

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: IanC
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 11:30 AM

Edain

Think that's in breach of rule 33a.

London Bridge

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: MMario
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 11:47 AM

Whitehall South Ferry!

haha! According to the Whitehall rule no interchanges for three turns!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 11:47 AM

No, I got out of pratical early this afternoon thus nullifying 33a b and d

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 11:47 AM

Moorfields

(change for Liverpool Lime Street)

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 11:49 AM

Forgot to incude my move Victoria

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: MMario
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 11:51 AM

Chauncy

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: IanC
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 11:54 AM

Foul!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Trevor
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 12:07 PM

Chicken Farm

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 12:09 PM

Are Trafalgar Square, Strand, Aldwych, Ongar etc. still valid moves ?
After all Mornington Crescent itself was closed for quite some years.

Anyway I'll go:
Theydon Bois

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Watson
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 12:16 PM

I can't imagine why I didn't think of this before...

Highbury and Islington.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Morticia
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 01:39 PM

Russell Square, thus bypassing the British Museum, which I think you'll find gives me a five point advantage

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: MMario
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 01:58 PM

Hoyt-Schermerhorn: free tranfer

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

Aha! You avoid the British Museum, Morticia, but due to my having worked for LUL's Department of Signalling and Electrical Engineering ( true! ) you run foul of my "Switch the points" card and are now stuck at Camden Road (defunct) .

Thus leaving me clear to bound to Euston!!!!

A hahahahahaha!

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: RolyH
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 03:28 PM

Colliers Wood. (Sorry, I'm not very good at this)

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 03:39 PM

Bank

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 03:43 PM

Damn you Roly. I'm left with no option but
Green Park
Under the Holyoak variation for November

Vectis

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 04:07 PM

A note to people who are totally bemused by this:

Mornington Crescent is actually quite funny when played by talented comics.

It is, however, somewhat dull (as you've probably noticed) when someone like Edain decides to take it up as a (doubtlessly shortlived) new hobby

A certain comic understanding is needed to play it well. That is almost totally lacking in tis thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 04:15 PM

And your move, GUEST, is...?

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Edain
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 05:19 PM

Doris Hill thus enforcing a Doris Hill loop on all players currently at stations on the Northern Line as according to Monday rules.

Guest, if you don;t like this post don;t read it and leave it to those who do.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 05:28 PM

Noreen, I didn't claim to have the comic touch, but was simply pointing out that the game, unlike this thread, can actually be very funny in the right hands

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 05:56 PM

Gants Hill
Roding Valley link means that you have to miss a go

He He He

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:45 AM

Turnpike Lane (a risky call, I know, but at least it gets us back into sensible territory!)

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Micca
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:51 AM

AHA!!!! Bullfrog!!! Stockwell!! using Caseys turn!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:58 AM

Waterloo - five extra points for using the W&C via the travalator.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: weerover
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 05:24 AM

Ah, the hell with it...

Mornington Crescent

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Bagpuss
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 06:06 AM

Now, does anyone fancy a game of GO JOHNNY GO GO GO GO?

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Noreen
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 06:09 AM

Well played, that man!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: vectis
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 09:55 AM

Blast you Weerover!!!
You've beaten me to it.

Congrats
you swine

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:03 AM

Canon's Park
(commuted between there and Baker St for 10 years, don't miss it at all)
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: ced2
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 10:27 AM

The North Wales Narrow Guage version is more fun... spelling mistakes getting past the spull chucker are wild! How about Pothmadog new for starters?

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 12:01 PM

Blaenau Ffestiniog

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 12:36 PM

No, I'm sorry, the rules of the NWNG version are just too arcane. I refuse to play after a particularly nasty dispute over the Cader Idris amendment which resulted in the insertion of a lardy cake into a most inappropriate orifice.

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,Julie B (cookieless)
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 12:54 PM

In the circumstances, I think I'll go out on a limb and say 'Cumberland Gap'.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: ced2
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 03:30 PM

Not even on the Brunel amendment can you play that! Rhostryfan!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: MMario
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 03:34 PM

Cathedral Parkway and then Baychester for seven points under the New Amsterdam convention

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:11 PM

Brading Bullring

Arcane, but legit under Isle of Wight minority community rules.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:54 PM

Marquis of Huffingtons rules are just for cheats!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 04:54 PM

OK then Vectis, if you want to make it south western.

Branksome Chine.

SO THERE...Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 07:18 PM

south western be damned. It's southern all the way.

Newtown

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 05:06 AM

If the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway is valid so is the I-O-W Newport and Ryde Railway. So as I'm feeling sadistic I'll suggest:

Whippingham

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Lanfranc
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 05:37 AM

To introduce a modicum of musical relevance to this forum, I humbly request to be permitted to play the Flanders and Swann "Slow Train" convention. (It is at least as relevant as the Isle of Wight variation, although, I admit, the latter does use obsolescent LUL rolling stock!)

So ...

Millers Dale for Tideswell

Alan

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 05:53 AM

Lymington Ferry (using the transoceanic amendment)

We've got to get back onto the mainland to move towards MC!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 06:37 AM

Neither the Newport Junction or the Newport and Ryde sections of the I-O-W railway system ever used ex-LUL rolling stock. The last trains to be used were either 02 or Terrier tank engines.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Micca
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 06:50 AM

Llanfranc, in that case,...
Midsomer Norton,
or if the "conventional" game is being pursued,
Wool

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: ced2
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 07:00 AM

ABEMULE! But be sure you have the correct token!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 07:00 AM

Wool ?

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: DG&D Dave
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 07:36 AM

Harwich for the continent (Eastbourne for the incontinent)

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Guessed
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 08:16 AM

DG&D Dave -
You forget the Hip switch in Ipswich. And while we are down in the leg region (very 'Catty) Felix Toe.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Micca
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 08:19 AM

Schantieman, on the line to Weymouth a coupla stops before Dorchester!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 09:33 AM

Ah, right. Probably been through it!

Turn 'em Green

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 04:46 PM

Abinger Hammer

Pick the bones out of that one!!

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: RolyH
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 04:55 PM

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!!!! (I win)

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 06:15 PM

Sorry Roly. You can't from Abinger Hammer to Mornington Crescent even with a ticket and a token.

Birmingham New Street

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Snuffy
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 07:12 PM

Broom Junction

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 06:27 AM

Utilising the McGlumpher Manoeuvre (aka the Glasgow Kiss) -

Cowcaddens!!



Cheers


Steven

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,Mr Red in disguise
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 06:40 AM

Come on yous guys
why has no one done "one song to the tune of another"? This is more in keeping with the Mudcat - I submit.
AND why has no-one visited Cheddar Gorge?
OK so its down to me - I vote as we are in the Mendips we could drop-in on the Mendip Packet FC in Emborough (Sun night)
and hotel overnight in the "Areal of Brisel"

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 06:45 AM

Really, this game is simply too crude. I much prefer the more genteel Caledonian variation, frequently played in the drawing rooms of Edinburgh- "Morningside Crescent".

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:28 AM

Oh Doug! Even using the McGlumpher manoeuvre you should know that Cowcaddens is an invalid move. The Glasgow underground is closed by strike action today!
You could have gone totally Garlic and played The Louvre...

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 04:06 PM

GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Nice try but a bit Waverley but while we are havign our passport stamped I think we should take in the Kyles of Lochalsh to Kyleachin ferry (probably cheaper than the bridge).

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 04:08 PM

Yes I too thought play the clockwork orange card, but was foiled by militants, never mind there's always.

Llanfair-p-g

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: IanC
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 07:59 AM

Sorry. Had to get you off "Nelsons" ... very bad form when England are playing a test match (esp. against Australia)!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 11:23 AM

Trafalgar Square

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 12:18 PM

Mornington Crescent

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 01:02 PM

Surely not!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: vectis
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 01:49 PM

Oh yess.
And I've got my cookie back as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 04:33 PM

Trafalgar backwards is raglafart; not many people know that!!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 06:48 PM

Evenington Crescent and good night!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Micca
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 03:08 PM

All you MC addicts the NEW season Of "I'm Sorry I havent a clue" ( which contains, and is the originator of, the game Mornington Crescent) begins on BBC Radio 4 Next Monday 18 November at 18.30 GMT I believe it is available on line at BBC Radio 4 link

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 03:53 PM

Shhhhh Micca, we don't want them all to know!!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Michael
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 02:15 PM

24 underground stations closed due to firefighters strike, does that mean Gillchrist's Contraction comes into play?

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 02:26 PM

I bet MC's one of them!

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 05:21 PM

MC is like the Windmill, it never close.

Bromley-by-Bow

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: vectis
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 07:36 PM

Hi again Giok

Using Fermats Gatorade theorum

Embankment

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,Davetnova
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 06:23 PM

integrated transport dirctive - all stations must be within 100 yards of a bus stop.
Bank

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: vectis
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 08:01 PM

Oh! Sod you Davetenova

Chalk farm

Yeh I know it's a safe move but it's reliable

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Gray D
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 11:06 AM

I'm surprised Gareth didn't spot it, but,

Shadwell.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Gray D
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 09:13 PM

Stopped the game?


http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/0210/firestrike01.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Gray D
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 07:48 PM

Three weeks away (yes, thanks BT, no, I believe you, you're really not short of staff to fix a phone line) and I manage to kill the first thread I touch.

I mean I knew I was gifted but really . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: vectis
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 04:42 AM

South Kensington
Using the Upwardly mobile offside rule

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST,Bit
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 08:29 AM

Have to play the Drubden gambit so putting you all in barf.

Off to Morton Hamptdon.

Again, obvious to those in the know.

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 09:49 AM

High Holborn

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:13 AM

Herself is off in London for a meeting today, actually getting off at Mornington Crescent. Can I claim the winner's prize using the Spouse's Default option?
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 04:08 AM

Let's get this straight, Roger --- she told you she's going to a meeting, but she's actually getting off in Mornington Crescent? I must say, you take such cuckoldry in remarkably good spirit!

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 04:30 AM

BJ
I've got a headache!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 09:12 AM

Too much ouzo I reckon!

Massouri Town Square (just to get back to the game).

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Lanfranc
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:17 AM

Bull & Bush

I found this site fun!

Alan

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 06:31 AM

Green St Green.
You'll have to use a connecting bus to get out of there during the strike...He He He

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Schantieman
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 07:15 AM

Sydney Greenstreet

Subject: RE: BS: Mornington Crescent
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 07:35 AM

Green St, Sydney.

BJ