Mornington Crescent

[Purple Train]

 Holborn.

 

[90019]

As it's the last Friday of May and we're using Purdah rules, I thought that by combining a Corbett twist with a half McVitie and changing at Leicester Square I could have made it, but alas it has taken us to Camden Town instead.

 

[Ashley Hill]

As it's the last Friday of May and we're using Purdah rules, I thought that by combining a Corbett twist with a half McVitie and changing at Leicester Square I could have made it, but alas it has taken us to Camden Town instead.

That’s Madness! Now I can use the ampersand challenge and move to Totteridge & Whetstone .

 

[ainsworth74]

 Holborn.

Objection! I've already played Holborn twice this game and therefore have first recourse to future instances of Holborn. I believe that leaves you in Nidd and you miss the next turn. Meanwhile it allows me to make an unusual but highly effective move and access Pimlico.

 

[DerekC]

In making all this unnecessary fuss about Holborn, you have forgotten that rule 17.3 (iii) subclause 5 of Bucket's Standard Rules, adopted (as all should know) by The Committee doesn't allow Forum Staff to post any station constructed after 1927. So I suggest a day's self-imposed penance in Nidd is the least you could do. I will move us gracefully on to:

Bal-ham (gateway to the South)

 

[RDP]

Or to cure it, Ickenham.

 

[Fermiboson]

I have heard of a good ham shop in Kenton.

 

[Purple Train]

If I'm allowed out now, I shall play Colliers Wood.

If I'm not allowed out now, I shall play Colliers Wood.

 

[Ostrich]

Without wishing to make a mountain out of a mole-hill, therefore, I suggest we must proceed to Alperton ....

 

[Loppylugs]

Ooh, Alperton on a Friday night is a bit dodgy. Now that the traffic's eased somewhat, my good friend Lucy Lastic and I are off on a romantic stroll across Putney Bridge.

 

[Purple Train]

Putney Bridge? Seriously? Bethnal Green is far more romantic. Trust me on this.

 

[RDP]

time to play rule 007 taking us to Bond Street.

 

[sftfan1909]

According to the latest rulebook we need to go to Gloucester Road or risk contravening the 1,934th amendment...

 

[RDP]

Time to play the South Midlands Shuffle to Warwick Avenue.

 

[Purple Train]

Time to play the Wildly Inaccurate card - Kentish Town.

 

[Stathern Jc]

From a Kentish Town, is there an obscure diversion I've missed that prevents a diagonal to Ashford (Surrey)?

 

[RDP]

One can get confused as to which Ashford is which but there is common ground at Waterloo.

 

[DerekC]

I really can't see the logic of that move. Why not simply go direct to Pontoon Dock and get a "Get Out of Nidd Free" card.

 

[Spamcan81]

Sod the rules, I’m off to Sloane Square.

 

[Trackman]

You could have been huffed there at Sloane Square, but I don't want to fall foul of the Derbyshire huff rule (newbies google it, it's real). So my next move is Caledonian Road.

 

[Stathern Jc]

Could it be time for the Cup Final day variation (avoiding Wembley until Extra Time)?
I'm heading back to Oval

 

[Ashley Hill]

Keeping with the cricket theme I was going to say Lords,but according to the rule of Sod I’ll have to go St John’s Wood instead.

 

[DerekC]

I checked the rules, and an obscure note made in 1953 by he well known expert Jurgen Huffensocks allows a time warp to be played once in every game, so I am going to declare that for this my post, it's 1938 and I can move to the much better located station which was indeed named:

Lords (1868 - 1939)

 

[godfreycomplex]

Ah, 1938, that gives a very pleasing double quack on the Lewisworth-Duck rule that’s in place hereabouts. Given that a double quack requires carrying the three, we have to of course go to somewhere with step free access to carry it, so I’ll play Ickenham

 

[RDP]

By playing the Tunbridge Wells card we get to Twickenham.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Using the Power of Greyskull I shall move to Chiswick Park.

 

[Spamcan81]

I'm not sure why but having studied the Harrison Variations (1927 edition) I feel the need to alight at Finchley Road & Frognal.

 

[RDP]

using the French Connection takes us to Knightsbridge.

 

[DerekC]

I am afraid you have used the Revised Version of the Rules, which is known to be sloppy in the central area. If you go back to the original Aramaic, you will find that the French Connection is a mistranslation. The guidance is not entirely clear, but if you follow the Ley Line it takes you to:

Seven Sisters

 

[Purple Train]

 Highgate. (1976 Pears Amendment to Debnath Law of 1959 expressly shows that a hexadecimal corkscrew move should follow a move involving the Ley Line - that is, when the time is eight past the hour.)