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English Breakfast Tea is best, especially when played with the Sarkozy / Platini diagonal which allows French pastries to start the day with.

Just order Morning Tea Croissant, pronounced locally as Mornington Crescent

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Point of order Mr Chairman!

Clearly this is an unacceptable move. The interpretation of, admittedly, of a somewhat tea stained copy of the 27th of Edition of the now sadly discontinued McMahon guide clearly prevents such an outrageous movement!

Surely, the movement from a tea landing site to the terminus of this game breaches the ruling that breakfast based snack products, particularly FRENCH breakfast based snack products can not be joined into the movement log whilst discussing the fine English past time of tea drinking!

Whilst I accept that should coffee have been the beverage of choice then this move would be acceptable it can never be so with tea. Yes i know the 27th guide was drafted during the Napoleonic wars but it is STILL binding!

I must also call on the principal of duplicate station names on other light rail networks being valid after a successful ruling challenge (or the Johnson effect) to undertake this movement.

Therefore i must insist, nay demand, that the move to Mornington Crescent be struck from the record and the game moved, forthwith, to Monument in honour of the famous Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Gray (he of the tea fame)

I rest my case.
 

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Alas the 27th edition of the McMahon guide has been superseded by EU Treaty 306/024/t. The price we pay for being in the EEC I'm afraid. You simply can't discriminate between tea and coffee these days. And Earl Grey isn't tea, it's gnat's p***. So now we're are going to have to take a huge detour (that must be a French word) to Strasbourg
 

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Alas the 27th edition of the McMahon guide has been superseded by EU Treaty 306/024/t. The price we pay for being in the EEC I'm afraid. You simply can't discriminate between tea and coffee these days. And Earl Grey isn't tea, it's gnat's p***. So now we're are going to have to take a huge detour (that must be a French word) to Strasbourg

You may have placed us in Nidd with that move as i am unsure if Strasbourg has an underground system! Although it may be allowable as they do have trams built at York works.

I think we need may need an official adjudication here!
 

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You may have placed us in Nidd with that move as i am unsure if Strasbourg has an underground system! Although it may be allowable as they do have trams built at York works.

Derby works not York, and the Strasbourg trams do go underground for a short way.

Thus I nominate the nearest probable future tramstop to Derby, at Toton Sidings.
 

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Derby works not York, and the Strasbourg trams do go underground for a short way.

Thus I nominate the nearest probable future tramstop to Derby, at Toton Sidings.

both actually - but i will let you off ;)

so using trams in Nottingham i best nominate Station Street so we can get an EMT back to London and hence Kings Cross St Pancras
 
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Ah - the Euston Road Manoeuvre. Unfortunately the weather is currently inclement, which precludes from playing Regent's Park, so instead I shall have to play Neasden.
 

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All this talk of being in Therapia (just how is that word pronounced - I've only ever seen it written) Lane brings Sigmund Freud to mind. A little known fact about the father of psychoanalysis is that he was obsessed with the tube map, and loved playing Mornington Crescent. In 1942 he published a paper suggesting that the tube map was in fact an unconscious repression of the Oedipal desires. In what became known as the Hampstead Hypothesis, he suggested that the O-shape formed by the diverging/re-joining Charing Cross and Bank branches of the Northern Line represented the female sexuality, and that the Central Line as it thrusted through this was representative of male dominance. He posited that this was symbolic of the phallocentric nature of trade in the City of London (represented on the map by Bank station on the Central Line) and how it had come to dominate "Mother London." However, this being the darkest days of the Second World War, the paper was barely noticed, and the LPTB sent a politely-worded letter thanking him for his suggestions but that they had no plans at that time to re-design the tube map.

All of which leads me to conclude I have only one move available to me.

Barking.
 

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I think, Darren R, that you are repressing some significant transference issues here. I wonder if your father was from Cockfosters? I believe that if you regress via King's Cross to London Bridge you will find St Mary Overie in Southwark. That will be fifty guineas.

Fergus
 

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Nidd? That's unfortunate.

I shall indulge myself in a little pointless DLR play with Surrey Quays. At least I can claim an aqua token for the privilege.
 

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Under Chapman's renaming rules of 1925, I'll go Embankment, which also keeps us below the diagonal and negates any potential shunt manoeuvre.
 

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I think, Darren R, that you are repressing some significant transference issues here. I wonder if your father was from Cockfosters? I believe that if you regress via King's Cross to London Bridge you will find St Mary Overie in Southwark. That will be fifty guineas.

Fergus

Actually my mother was from Cockfosters and my father was from Queensway. I grew up in the shadow of The Monument and I have Seven Sisters. Thank you doctor, I think you could be on to something - do you accept Luncheon Vouchers?

You have given me much to think about. I am off to ponder and clear my head on Clapham Common.
 

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Actually my mother was from Cockfosters and my father was from Queensway. I grew up in the shadow of The Monument and I have Seven Sisters. Thank you doctor, I think you could be on to something - do you accept Luncheon Vouchers?

You have given me much to think about. I am off to ponder and clear my head on Clapham Common.

Surely you mean give head? Beware the West London Line. It leads but to Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs, Holloway and Pentonville. Rule 43 applies. Yes, Luncheon Vouchers are perfectly acceptable.

Fergus
 

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In order to drag the game away from the inappropriate goings on that, it is alleged, all to often befall people looking for badgers on Clapham Common I think we ought to move quickly to that the den of iniquity that is Mudchute. Oh hang on……
 

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Station so named because the locals didn't want to use the local name of Milwall, because then nobody would like them.

So by the transferred football sub-clause we have Arsenal. (either that or Milton Keynes).
 

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Using the same rules, disused section, sub clause 4.2.6.4.3a, I think a move to Elm Park is valid in this instance.
 

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Are you quite sure about that?
 

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If the Quizmaster is unsure it must be correct but there are no Elms connected to the Orient. I think we are playing with the wrong shaped ball which is why I propose Oval
 

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Ah - so you are employing the Grace Gambit. Of course once of a time the next move would be to Lord's, but times change and instead it shall have to be to St John's Wood.
 

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The Elm Park reference was in relation to another one that Reading FC played at. Moving forward, I'm taking a punt that Dollis Hill will not leave me in Nidd
 

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The Elm Park reference was in relation to another one that Reading FC played at. Moving forward, I'm taking a punt that Dollis Hill will not leave me in Nidd

Oh dear. It looks like Dollis Hill for me, too then. Not like I have much choice.
 

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Must be careful or we'll end up in a Dollis Hill loop, fiendishly awkward to escape from
 

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Eric Simms, noted author on the subject of birds (and keen Mornington Crescent player), resided in Dollis Hill. I shall therefore play the Ornithology Opening and fly off to Finch(ley Central.)
 

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Eric Simms, noted author on the subject of birds (and keen Mornington Crescent player), resided in Dollis Hill. I shall therefore play the Ornithology Opening and fly off to Finch(ley Central.)

I don't want to snipe at you, Darren, but I think that was a ruff move, which you may come to egret - once bittern, twice shy! However, just to fly a kite, I'll move via Brent (Goose) Cross and Christopher Wren's St Paul's to Dartford (Warbler). You may rail against this, but swallow your pride and make a swift rejoinder!

Fergus
 
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