Mornington Crescent

DarloRich · 5 Jan 2014

Darren R said:
I believe that since this isn't a Leap Year, the Dagenham Rules allow me to move via Ford to Poplar.

surely Ford Prefect?

mmmmmmmmmmm Poplar - The famed Dujrovski manoeuvre - well that rules out the DLR, and in fact, anywhere east of Walthamstow Central on the tube map for quite a while. A brave move so early. Very well played sir.

I am going to risk it as it is very close to the "iron curtain" but............. Hackney Wick

(Dujrovski was, of course, a Macedonian so why it is called the iron curtain manoeuvre beats me)

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Darren R · 5 Jan 2014

Tonight being Twelfth Night is quite convenient, since there is the oft-forgotten Santa Clause in the rules regarding The Dujrovski Manoeuvre, which allows me to legitimately play (Christmas) Pudding Mill Lane, providing I do so before midnight.

I did consider playing Turkey Street, but I thought that might leave the next player a bit stuffed!

90019 · 6 Jan 2014

I think I'll sneak in here as I've spotted an opportunity to use my personal favorite move - the little known Corbett Twist, which allows me to make the jump to Bank.

Darren R · 6 Jan 2014

In which case I shall utilise the Reverse Carney Gambit and make a move back from Bank to Canada Water.

dzug2 · 6 Jan 2014

A long straight run to Neasden

In this version are we trying to get to MC - or avoid getting there?

DarloRich · 6 Jan 2014

Well there can only be one move from Neasden and that must be Wembley Park.

Oh to simple I hear you say.

Ah says I but this is via a return along the Jubilee before a change at Baker Street for the Metropolitan BACK to Wembley Park.

For the pedants that does NOT constitute a doubling back. Using the Mathhews/Mortensen Method, which as you will recall was introduced by the Blackpool Amateur Mornington Crescent Society in 1953 following their chairman and GB captain Ernie Ramsbottom becoming lost on the underground prior to their football clubs famous FA Cup victory, this move IS acceptable on an FA cup weekend (Which in 2003 was extended to cover Monday evenings. Yet another controversial outcome of the Copenhagen world conference!)

It was a sad day when the Blackpool Amatrue Mornington Crescent Society sold out to become part of the north west Lancashire and south east Cumbria professional league. I understand they are now called the Blackpool Towers - Uncle Ernie must spin in his grave at the thought!

Mvann · 6 Jan 2014

Rayners lane

DarloRich · 6 Jan 2014

Chiswick Park

OxtedL · 7 Jan 2014

I'm ashamed to say I've lost track - is that with or without gherkins?

DarloRich · 7 Jan 2014

OxtedL said:
I'm ashamed to say I've lost track - is that with or without gherkins?

surely it is up to the customer or perhaps commuter.

To coin a phrase, you want it your way at (Burger) Kings Cross

Mvann · 7 Jan 2014

Shouldn't that be I'm loving it. In which case off to piccadilly circus to see Eros.

edwin_m · 7 Jan 2014

I thought reference to Burger King were strongly discouraged? The penalty is internal exile to Fairlop.

DarloRich · 7 Jan 2014

edwin_m said:
I thought reference to Burger King were strongly discouraged? The penalty is internal exile to Fairlop.

There isn't a wall built that can hold me! I will Turnham Green with envy at the ease of my escape

306024 · 7 Jan 2014

Surely you can't escape the terrors of the Hainault Loop so easily? Let's try again with Gnats Hill. Oops sorry, Gants Hill

Mojo · 7 Jan 2014

Of course another player above did mention the Iron Curtain Manoeuvre, and Gants Hill station is supposedly a mimic of a design used on the Moscow underground railway system; which reading through the Russian Parallel Procedures gives me no choice but to end up at Hornchurch.

Mvann · 7 Jan 2014

Have they got any blackfriars there?

edwin_m · 7 Jan 2014

If you've escaped the Hainault Loop then the only solution is Underground equivalent of Alcatraz with its island platform, Clapham (in irons) Common (criminals).

Darren R · 7 Jan 2014

And from thence, swiftly transported to receive justice at Snaresbrook (Crown Court.)

AndyLandy · 8 Jan 2014

Paying the two black token late penalty, I shall start at Hainault

fergusjbend · 9 Jan 2014

Hainault is clearly and obviously inadmissible. Only a novice with the IQ of a platyhelminth would suggest such a corrupt move. Sometimes I think that the people who play this game on this Forum are just not serious. I don't like to impugn anyone's motives, but it seems pretty clear to me that the so-called AndyLandy is just a cat's paw for some vested interests, probably Freemasons. I realise now that you are the one who has been putting crushed glass in my tea and I can tell you that you won't get away with it!!!! Repent, repent!!!

Oh yes, I forgot.......

Mornington Cresent

tony_mac · 9 Jan 2014

I don't think that works.

I've dug out my copy of Stovold's (or what's left of it, it's a bit moth-eaten), and it's clear that after the inadmissable move we have a renversement, but that combined with two consecutive (attempted) central-line moves means that we run into Garden's paradox (the only legal moves are those that are not legal moves, and every legal move is an illegal move).

Hence, the only way out of this situation is to reverse the time field and return back to Clapham Common and try again.
But don't worry, I think you are still only two moves away, as long as you can avoid another renversement situation.

tractakid · 9 Jan 2014

Brighton Pier. Only valid due to simultaneous Big Ben avoiding manoevres, but I shall take full advantage.

DarloRich · 9 Jan 2014

edwin_m said:
If you've escaped the Hainault Loop then the only solution is Underground equivalent of Alcatraz with its island platform, Clapham (in irons) Common (criminals).

Upon the hearing of my appeal against this wrongful imprisonment, nay miscarriage of justice, the Supreme Court,( via a trip to Westminster

) have quashed my conviction and released me back into society without a stain on my character.

it should be noted that i spent a considerable period of time incarcerated in both the maximum security facilities at Hainault Loop and Clapham Common. This incarceration was both inequitable and wholly disproportionate when my alleged crime is considered. It remains my contention that i was held in camera on trumped up charges based upon my controversial views of the results of the 2003 Copenhagen World Conference. I neither retract those views nor do I apologise for them.

I will now instruct my legal team to seek suitable recompense from the authorities for the distress caused by my incarceration.

There will be no other statements on this matter.

Darren R · 11 Jan 2014

Regretfully I have to inform members that this matter now appears to be sub judice. I received notification in this morning's post from Messrs Notting, Hill & Gate (I was suspicious as soon as I noticed the missive had been posted from Temple EC4) informing me of Regina v MC. I fear this may be, for some considerable time, stuck in Chancery (Lane).

Mvann · 12 Jan 2014

Can't we just send them to the Tower (hill)?

DarloRich · 12 Jan 2014

Mvann said:
Can't we just send them to the Tower (hill)?

Not any more! I must draw your attention to the Jakobs* ruling of 1941 that indicates that moves shall be invalid IF they make reference to the now defunct former usages of well known national landmarks.

You will note that the ruling also indicates that the next player may select from a list of stations associated with the central theme of the penalised players illegal move. As that seems to be prisons we may choose from :

1) Brixton (Brixton)
2) East Acton (Wormwood Scrubs)
3) Balaham (Wansdworth)
4) Woolwich Arsenal (Belmarsh/Thameside/Isis)
5) Calledonian Road (Holloway/Pentonville)

I select East Acton

(*You would think that Josef Jakobs, about to face a firing squad for espionage, would have had more pressing matters to attend to but such is life. Sadly the ruling from the IMCA was delayed until 1947 due to hostilities so Jakobbs never knew he had been right to draw attention to the matter all along as he was shot in 1941 becoming the last man to be executed at the Tower!)

AndyLandy · 12 Jan 2014

Ooh, this is getting rather tricksy. I think it'll have to be Caledonian Road. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place...

Darren R · 12 Jan 2014

A move to East Acton is all very well, but unfortunately you appear to have forgotten that by listing all the available prison-related moves that brings in to play the Penal Tea Clause. Alas - I have no option but to head off east to that most famous of Clippers, Cutty Sark.

DarloRich · 12 Jan 2014

Darren R said:
A move to East Acton is all very well, but unfortunately you appear to have forgotten that by listing all the available prison-related moves that brings in to play the Penal Tea Clause. Alas - I have no option but to head off east to that most famous of Clippers, Cutty Sark.

tea you say? Yes please! Milk no sugar. I will drink it in my way to East India (Docks)

Darren R · 12 Jan 2014

Since my grandfather's second cousin on my maternal grandmother's side is American, a second mention of Camellia sinensis allows me to make reference to the Boston (Manor) Tea Party.

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