Mornington Crescent?!

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Will somebody please please explain to me what this is all about?

Traditionalist that I am, London Bridge. Dear OP do you now understand what you have unwittingly started?

As it's aSynday in May I think we can use Byron's Punt which will take us over to Elephant & Castle

Ahem. A Byron's Punt cannot be used in a Leap Year.
Nidd for you, methinks.

No, the year divides by seven - no Nidd and we are dispensed from further backwards typing provided the next station is not in London so Huntingdon it is.

The President of the Supreme Court of Bermuda sends regards. He promises me that he has forgotten all about the Labrador and the tin-opener.

Excellent play Andrew! Master stroke there.

I still don't get it

Almost time for a sherry with the Bishop, but time enough to play Maida Vale.

Think you'll find that byrons punt CAN be used in a leap year if special dispensation by the British ambassador for the Republic of Guinea-Bissau has been given. I happen to have dileberated just this subject with him last Tuesday over a couple of cups of lapsang souchong, his view was, considering this year's incident with the unbrella and Mrs Umbridge (very unfortunate), it would be prudent to reinstate full Byron privelages until further notice.

Well. The less said about the tin opener, the better, in my view. Too bad it was the talk of the entire MC scene for far too long, and ended up far too embellished for my liking.However, I digress - the temperature has risen above 20 degrees, and it IS a Sunday, which, according to the rules of the Brownworthy-Smythe convention in 1762, allows me to play Waterloo.

Get out of that one, if you will.

I see my plea for some sporting decorum was openly ignored by some parties at this party, whom we shall call Delilah to obscure the fact their name is Slinky*. I also now see that the parlay wasn't in play and I appear to have made a mistake, I can only say that it was the shock of seeing it mentioned combined with the Duke's cold hands while he demonstrated what he insisted was ancient knowledge from the Amazon rainforest. It didn't do my lazy Susan any favours, I can tell you that much.

I shall regretfully play a McGrath fortean hapstan to Pimlico by way of apology.

• Sorry Slinky, I apologise for completely failing to read properly.

I'll beat the admiral to it.

Daor Yawolloh

dobby perhaps started on the Pimms a little early?
Plays a simple Ffortescue's leap to Waterloo which I think is appropriate for such warm weather.

You mean of course the station just South of Brussels, from which I will take us on Trans-border Extravaganza to Aachen.

dementedma You know as well as I do that dobby is not one for the Pimms. She goes straight for the old mother's ruin and she doesn't stint herself. As two members of the last government but one would testify if they dared show their faces where a warrant from Scotland Yard runs.

I shall revert to the backwards spelling and continue on to Nlok Fohnhabtpuah

Monday dawns and we spell forward again. Or do we?

Vive la France and we are going to Noyon where I claim my reward of a free visit to the Auchan. Second prize, two free visits.

Aha. So the rumours of a second game weren't baseless. Irene has just triumphed on the other thread so, while I recover from the excitement, I shall essay something stately and sedate here. A linear Frocksworth to

Euston Square

At first I thought there were skill, rules and logic to the process, ie there had to be a tube journey between the previous and next stations that followed a certain pattern and knowledge of the tube system was needed.

But I was wrong and it appears that you just randomly shout out the names of tube stations interspesed with made up rules such as 'according to the 1947 amendment I'll throw in Cockfosters', but what is not clear and what people never seem to want to explain is when it is and isn't appropriate to say 'Mornington Crescent', for example if this thread was the game, and it does appear that some people are playing, if I said Mornington Crescent now, it would be wrong, for reasons that I don't understand at all .

It's a metaphor for life, Barbara The rules are never what you think they are.

East Finchley

Well it's no use asking me. I haven't played since the incident with the croquet mallet at Pondicherry in '43 and I'm certainly not going to start again now.

Ahh perfect, Mornington Crescent for a day off sick on the sofa.
Given the fact that it is a leap year and according to the Parrick Agreement of 1968 I'm going to play a nicely justified Great Portland Street.

Great move! Has someone ascertained how the Admiral fared?

I am celebrating being finally out of Nidd and going to make that time honoured Fitch-Hitchling Slide north by northwest to Camden Town.

Gosh, this game is speeding up! How wonderful to find such a congregation of adept (and even cunning) players.

I've been browsing the '65 handbook. Of course, chapters 7 to 32 are now out of date - superseded by the Malmo Concordat - but I think it's worth going back there for a double Dilworth to

St James' Park

Very pleased indeed to have found my way over here. Hello all! I used to be OnlyLovers, in case anyone gives a monkey's is confused.

Barbara is clearly a hustler. It's a clever bluff, but I'll be honest, I've seen off worse, and I've got the knee modifications to prove it.

Right, Camden Town after Great Portland Street is a sticky one, BUT I've just been refreshing my acquaintance with the Barrington Almanack and as luck would have it, that tome delineates the issues around square tithes most comprehensively and clearly.

I feel very confident in saying Stonebridge Park.

Frightfully glad the tithes have been settled and feel a trip to Harrow & Wealdstone is justified.

I think it's only really possible to pursue the '79 titular challenge route now, so I'm going to settle for
Ilseworth.