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Chorister
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That means invoking the transport shuttlebeam via Carstairs. Or at least it does on a wet Monday in November.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Hmmm - current deep level stock is £6 rent and houses are £50 a time; cut and cover line stock is £12 and houses are £100 - so I'll roll the dice...
[roll] [roll]
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That puts me on Jail - Just Visiting.
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Piglet
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Ah, the old Wrong Game ploy. That used to result in instant disqualification (and in extreme cases, sectioning under the Mental Health Act), but in these liberal, hanky-squeezing days it's become politically incorrect even to draw attention to it ...
oops ...
Ah well, I suppose a trans-game move is called for:
Leicester Square
which, with judicious use of Triple Letter/Word Scores, would get about 250 points in Scrabble. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) [ 20. November 2012, 02:51: Message edited by: piglet ]
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Latchkey Kid
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Elementary. Let's go Holme to
Baker Street
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Firenze
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You realise the Game was originally a monastic practice dating from the early 13th century? In Mornyng tyme cross cant the object was to pray the Stations of the Cross in the order prescribed by St Pancras (of Basildon, not the more famous one) while at no time traversing an imaginary line between the Holy Sepulchure in Jerusalem and the used-oxcart depot in Skelmersdale.
Only then were you allowed to eat breakfast.
That being so, it's only right to go to Mottisfont.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote: Originally posted by Firenze: You realise the Game was originally a monastic practice dating from the early 13th century? In Mornyng tyme cross cant the object was to pray the Stations of the Cross in the order prescribed by St Pancras (of Basildon, not the more famous one) while at no time traversing an imaginary line between the Holy Sepulchure in Jerusalem and the used-oxcart depot in Skelmersdale.
Only then were you allowed to eat breakfast.
That being so, it's only right to go to Mottisfont.
Oh come, come. The links between the monastic pasttime and the modern game are tenuous; there's a long lacuna between the Dissolution and the next reference of some 300 years and the assumption that it was a backstairs game throughout that 300 year lacuna doesn't really adequately explain the uniformity of the 18th century game, the fact that it was called Turnpikes and Tollgates, or the colours of Graeme Garden's shirts.
I seem to recall this was the basis of a dissertation read during one of the Symposium Sessions last year at Jarrow (how appropriate!). I think the matter was left unsettled, but enough Newky Broon had definitely been consumed to ensure that no-one cared much, although there was, the next day (for those able to drag themselves out of their hotel rooms further than the bogs) a special game along the lines you describe (roughly). It was a strange session, to say the least, not helped by the previous day's grudge match between the St James' Park Crew and the Sunderland Mob. You will be aware that MC is still banned in some schools as far apart as Berwick and Middlesborough because of the bad feeling thus engendered.
Football rivalries in the area don't come close.
King's Cross St Pancras [ 20. November 2012, 08:19: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
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The Weeder
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Things are getting a bit fraught. In an attempt to restore calm before we all go off the rails, I am doing a backstairs shunt-I know, but it IS legal, since the 2009 Derby Moot.
So
Finchley Road and Frognal
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Legal, but...
There's always the danger of creating a D***** H*** loop by play of that type.
I'm going to try to avoid having that happen by playing ... oh... Tottenham Court Road
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kingsfold
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Possilpark & Parkhouse
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Butterley
Preserved rules therefore in effect for the next five clicks.
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Starbug
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I think we all need some sunshine, so lets head off to
Porta del Mallorca
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Baptist Trainfan
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Whoopee, I haven't played this for ages!
Soller
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Chorister
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Did you make sure you had a 2/3 majority for that move, Baptist Trainfan?
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Latchkey Kid
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These new fangled variations are really testing me.
Kid Der Minster
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan: Whoopee, I haven't played this for ages!
Hello BT! I wondered where you'd got to. **waves**
Sticking with slightly obscure football teams:
Tamworth
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Firenze
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Tamworth what one would expect from a piglet.
Which brings us neatly to
Plumpton
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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This is getting pedestrian. I could play Gallifrey, but then I thought best not.
So, with still an intention to stir things up a bit, and with the film less than a month away, I'll go for Goblin Town Interchange
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Ceannaideach
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Noting that Circle Line Gambits are risky from Goblin Town Interchange. (Though to be honest the more professional Crescenteers would know how to ride the mayhem that would arise from any such move.)
Using the Tolkeinian Fantasy Races double reverse shunt I'm sending us to
Elverson Road
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Starbug
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Ankh Morpork Central
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Oh, very good. I wonder if it'll set up a vortex if I play Moria Endless Stair Low Level?
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Chorister
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Be careful, that vortex has been known to swallow the House of Laity whole. (Actually, wait, that might not be such a bad idea....)
Cockfosters
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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That just has to be followed by Picad(w)illy
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Baptist Trainfan
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I'm speechless!
Perhaps we ought to have to have a spell in quarantine at
Oldham (Mumps).
(Waves back at Piglet in a Friendly Way which will not attract the attention of heffalumps). [ 21. November 2012, 15:34: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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I don't know where to go from there, really. I once needed to help a young lady deliver parcels in Lancashire and North Wales, so I got her to Oldham, and then I went to Bangor as fast as I could.
Which takes us back to Llandudno Junction, wrth gwrs/of course.
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Baptist Trainfan
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PS For railway nerds:
quote: I wonder if it'll set up a vortex if I play Moria Endless Stair Low Level?
You may not know that there was truly once a Spiral Escalator at Holloway Road station. It didn't work, but bits of it still exist at the London Transport Museum Depot (I've seen them),
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kingsfold
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And thence to Machynlleth
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Firenze
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Jings, crivvens and help ma boab.
Waverley
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Piglet
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Glasgow Central, Jimmy.*
* Everyone in Glasgow is called Jimmy, even the women. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) [ 22. November 2012, 02:14: Message edited by: piglet ]
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balaam
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Caol Loch Aillse (Rathad Iarainn Nan Eilean)*
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*That's Kyle of Lochalsh (Iron road to the Isles) in Gaelic.
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Ariston
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I have no clue where we are. Reset to somewhere I do know: Brookland/CUA
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The Weeder
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Kilmainham
Because I can. I have a red counter, and so the 1898 rules apply.
( I have had to edit this post- I typed 1998 by mistake! I know.....that way shunts disaster) [ 22. November 2012, 09:57: Message edited by: The Weeder ]
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kingsfold
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Ooh, that's where we've got to, is it? Mmm. So, what shall I play next....
March I think.
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Latchkey Kid
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Also known as Le Marche which gets us to
Fiumicino
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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You can't expect to get away with that without getting Heeley
It's been closed for 50 years, so appropriate rules apply.
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Piglet
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By "appropriate rules" do you mean that as I'm only 50 and can't possibly be expected to remember anything about that station, I can take us somewhere that actually means something to me?
Vienna Central*
* but obviously means nothing to this lot.
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Latchkey Kid
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All Stretton Halt
No explanation necessary.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Now that does put me in a quandary ... does he mean Balloch Central (the only surviving station of that name) or the much more interesting but sadly defunct Balloch Pier (for the steamers, summer service only)?
Ho hum, I suppose it doesn't really matter if we put the Loch behind us and mooch up the line to Alexandria. Shall I take my Mummy? [ 23. November 2012, 16:05: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Hah! I know its hardly an exciting move but its just too tempting to do the Highland Line Double Redoubled and back up to Yoker.
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Starbug
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Hmm, given the subject of this week's news, I suggest we visit the now (sadly) defunct
Bishopsgate Terminus
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Piglet
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Canterbury East
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Baptist Trainfan
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Ha! Let the good Bishop try to catch a train at Southwell these days. Synod might allow it (in all three houses), but Dr. Beeching won't.
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Baptist Trainfan
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PS I woz wrong - it didn't last long enough to be closed by Dr. B. However the "push and pull" nature of its latter-day service seems to match very well the vacillations of the CofE.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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I hope no-one minds my observation that this is starting to get slightly dull and predictable. I seem to recall a very interesting double play at a point like this back in about 1995 in the Aston and Aughton finals that the German visiting champion Mudsch Utt beat out own Barbara ("Bar") King. I know that questions were asked in a House committee about it, but all the authorities agree it was valid.
Apart, of course, from the Leamington Spa MC Mafia, but who cares, eh?
Hence: Harrow and Wealdstone
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Starbug
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And a slight move to the west takes us to
Hanger Lane
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Baptist Trainfan
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Sounds as if you need to hang up your coat somewhere - would St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe do? If so, you'll probably find it best to get off at
Blackfriars.
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Chorister
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quote: Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan: Blackfriars.
I suppose you're one of those people who think that trains should only be driven by men? eh? eh? And celibate ones at that. But, I'll have you know, Mildred Carscobbler was the first woman train driver back in 1863 and the whole rules of this game were given a complete makeover after her skirts got snagged up in the wheel housing of the 0837 to Shoreditch.
Tooting Broadway
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