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A little Mornington Crescent - anyone care to join in?

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OverAndAbove · 24/10/2013 21:35

I just fancy a change of focus.

I'll jump right in with Great Portland Street - I think I'm entitled to do that, with it being beyond the autumn equinox, but before Halloween?

Any takers?

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MiniMonty · 06/12/2013 00:46

It's the 6th of the 12th giving me halving rights and as Kingsbury is under-struck I can double-camel as far as

BRIXTON

(no moaning - I CAN double-camel)...

AlbertGiordinHoHoho · 06/12/2013 09:34

I think your double-camel has put Maud in Nid.

Xmas Smile
TheHeadlessLadyofCannock · 06/12/2013 10:01

Walthamstow Queen's Road. Do you see?

MooncupGoddess · 06/12/2013 18:17

Oh very neat, Headless Lady. That was an Eliot manoeuvre, yes?

So - St John's Wood.

TheHeadlessLadyofCannock · 06/12/2013 19:55

It certainly was, Goddess!

I'm making a parietal crank over to Westbourne Park.

MiniMonty · 07/12/2013 00:28

Eliot manoeuvre... So slick.

I feel like a club player watching the Olympics.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 07/12/2013 15:42

I will extricate myself from Nidd by playing

Borough

TheHeadlessLadyofCannock · 08/12/2013 12:28

Well done, Maud! I was trying to work out how to get you out but hadn't thought of that. You had to do a spin Freedman, yes?

Now, seeing as the twistern is on the Bakerloo, I can (under di Agosto) take us to Epping.

AlbertGiordinHoHoho · 09/12/2013 08:56

I feel almost boneheaded for playing this, given the elegance of all the moved so far in this game. A straight Hump to.

Waterloo

Soz

TheHeadlessLadyofCannock · 09/12/2013 10:57

No, that's lovely play, Albert. It may look simple, but (as you know), a so-called straight hump wouldn't normally work when there's Harkment going on. As you also obviously know, it's only viable because that St John's Wood move was played according to McKinty. A lot of thought has gone into your 'simple' manoeuvre and there's no need for the self-deprecation!

Now then. I love a Waterloo move as much as the next person, but it can cause problems, so I've thought about this hard.

West Brompton, with Jorgensen's Rules.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 09/12/2013 15:26

Hmm. That leaves me with nothing to say, except

Tower Hill

TheHeadlessLadyofCannock · 09/12/2013 17:44

Ah, you've stymied my planned next move, because of Accrington's Exception...

Hmm.

It'll have to be Imperial Wharf, then.

MooncupGoddess · 09/12/2013 18:37

Continuing the McKinty theme...

Holborn

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 09/12/2013 23:23

I'm a bit rusty on McKinty, but I'll try

Elephant and Castle

MiniMonty · 10/12/2013 01:19

I thought McKinty was rather discredited after work at CERN proved Schrodingers cat was at once alive, and dead or on the Docklands light railway - but I digress...

Elephant and Castle works nicely for me - no brainer -

ARNOS GROVE

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PS - has anyone else got these "Add an image" boxes on this thread? I'm going to try it. Herewith, Schrodingers mermaid:
EmpressOfThe7WillowsandTaras · 10/12/2013 01:41

I've wanted to play this move for years but circumstances have never been quite right. But now, the tubes are inactive, the date has just moved into double digits and Jorgensen's Rules have already been invoked...

So I'm going to play a Jorgensen Reverse Switch, with the Alphabetical Variation.

Woolwich Arsenal.

TheHeadlessLadyofCannock · 10/12/2013 11:12

I can only really say Blackwall, and very humbly at that.

AlbertGiordinHoHoho · 10/12/2013 12:36

Thank You Cannock - I know convention dictates that you are called Headless Lady, but I am sticking with what I know.

Xmas Shock A Jorgensen Reverse Switch with Alphabetical Variation? Hello!

If we're playing Jorgensen, with a soupcon of McKinty, I'm going to go for my patented diagonal shit into Covent Garden

A little Mornington Crescent - anyone care to join in?
TheHeadlessLadyofCannock · 10/12/2013 13:00

Cannock is just fine, HoHoho Grin

I've been desperate to play this one since that nifty little turn into Holborn, so thanks for paving the way by lobbing me Covent Garden in a Piltdown year:

Marylebone!

MooncupGoddess · 10/12/2013 13:05

Some very fine play here, especially by the Empress.

Given that Jorgensen is pre-1994, I'm going to indulge myself with

Aldwych

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 10/12/2013 13:27

In which case, I will cite Muncaster-Dixon (1987 variant) and go for

London Bridge

EmpressOfThe7WillowsandTaras · 10/12/2013 15:26
AlbertGiordinHoHoho · 10/12/2013 16:43

doffs cap to Empress

I'm liking the way this game is starting to looki like something from Wapping's Oeuvre.

In the spirit of this, and forming a semi-perfect bridge, I offer

*Heathrow Terminals 1,2 and 3"

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 10/12/2013 17:08

Very controversial, Albert, playing three terminals at once. Fotherington-Thomas did that in the 2001 Grand Championship, I recall, and it Did Not End Well. Anyway, let's essay

Brent Cross

MiniMonty · 11/12/2013 01:28

HoHo Three terminals? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING !! ?
Maud has been polite but I will come out and say it "irresponsible".

A lot of players could go into lood - with no way back - and you could have put the entire board into Lambrier.

Yes, you want to win (and we all want to win)
but not at that kind of cost !

I say you're lucky that Maud stepped quickly in with an essay to Brent Cross.

Very Vanilla move now for me (and this incident won't be forgotten)
It may even be Ekringed.

WARREN STREET