The Large One
Who's Next?
We'll use the Earl's Court Variant as the basis, though be mindful of the Newbury Park Loop Rule, as it is October. I'll start with...
Osterley
Over to you.
Osterley
Over to you.
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[Travel] How about - a late night game of Mornington Crescent...?
- Thread starter The Large One
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
As its after 23:00, the only move is to Acton.
I can do no better than follow Mrs Ivy Trellis of North Wales' formula and apply the Tower Gambit, resulting in Mile End.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
- 12,090
As we're keeping this simple... A variation on the Harrington-Smythe riposte, will take us along to Angel
Lindfield by the Pond
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Rayners End?
Ken Livingstone Seagull
Well-known member
Third Tuesday Rule (and yes it's still Tuesday here), thus Hainault.
The Boy George Michael variant takes me to Hampstead Heath, although that may be too transparent.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,661
I've had an unexpectedly long night, I'll have to use up my pokemon card and play a defensive 'Fairlop'.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,661
I like what you tried to do there
Shuggie
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Third Tuesday still in force here for another 6 hours (think about it!) ...
Theydon Bois
Theydon Bois
Withdean and I
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- Aug 6, 2003
- 1,361
Third Wednesday rule now in play..... Turkey Street.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
Invoking, albeit a touch risky this early in the game, the Karl Marx Gambit leads me to Highgate.
Shuggie
Well-known member
Yes, very risky ... it's unworkable when the antecedent Third Wednesday move is locked by a pre-antecedent Third Tuesday move. In short, Highgate is out of bounds until midnight strikes in Hawaii.
To keep things moving, may I substitute Ruislip Manor on your behalf?
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
When the moon is waning gibbous ? Are you mad ? The only safe way out of this is Totteridge & Whetstone.
Super Steve Earle
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As the sun is rising, the Saharan Sand obscura comes back in to prominent play resulting in a move to Colindale, concidentally the name of my dentist!
Shuggie
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Oh goody, something to take my mind off the tedium of yet another cloudless day in this neck of the woods. I think you may wish to reconsider your slightly rash and, I have to say unnecessarily abrasive, intervention on two counts: one hinges on the core values of MC, the other mundane but irrefutable.
Firstly, as every schoolboy knows, Harrington-Smythe's damning analysis of the Hamish adjudication during the 1928 Empire Games quite clearly gave us the following guidance (edited highlights) " ... those over-enamoured of invoking lunar rules are often called Moonies, an appellation I am inclined to borrow for the sake of clarity and brevity. Those of us who defend and protect the time-honoured traditions of our noble pastime must be ever-vigilant against the incursions of these popinjays. They would have us believe lunar variations, protocols, modifications and exemptions in all their lunatic forms hold sway over our core tenets. This must not be! ... Their most common 100 heresies are ... No. 42. The year round applicability of waning gibbous. The Moonies are reminded that it is ineffective during the cycle of the harvest moon, a protocol which predates waning gibbous by an hundred years. To think otherwise is an insult to the generations of stout English yeomen and gentleman farmers for whom the Harvest has, and ever shall remain, the crowning event of the year. ...". And, as you should know, this document went on to be known as Harrington-Smythe's riposte (already invoked in the 5th move this evening).
Secondly, in any event, Old Moore's almanac quite clearly informs us that the moon is in fact waning crescent this evening and has been for the last four days.
I’m sorry but I haven’t a clue what any of you are on about?
Hillian1
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