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kingsfold
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Thank God, at last.
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The Weeder
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Amen!
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Baptist Trainfan
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Now we have a choice here, depending whether this is an Episcopal Amen or merely a Royal Peculiar (which, of course, some of us perform with some frequency in the Smallest Room).
But I think we'll plump for St. Paul's. The other place is so touristy. And St. Paul's is a direct run on the Central Line. [ 28. November 2012, 16:23: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Firenze
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Good grief man! Can't you see where this is leading? Listen, there's only one thing for it - wear these inflatable pyjamas and the ocelot-fur bowler the better to blend in, take the down escalator and the second train to depart platform B.
If you just make it to Alexandra Palace -
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Chorister
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Ideas above your station, Firenze?
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Starbug
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What a cuckoo idea!
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Piglet
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You've been reading Rumpole of the Bailey again, haven't you? Oh well, keeping with the Law:
Chancery Lane
**hums** quote: The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent ...
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Baptist Trainfan
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Ha! A closet Savoyard, no less. That can only mean Charing Cross.
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan: Ha! A closet Savoyard, no less ...
Not at all. My Savoyardity has been out of the closet since 1968 when, aged six, I saw the school production of H.M.S. Pinafore and was instantly hooked ...
Fairlop
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Baptist Trainfan
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Taking pinafores out of closets sounds a bit kinky to me - especially at such a tender age. It sounds as if your Domestic Cleanliness and Catering gene had to make itself known before it was fatally harmed by familial repression.
You clearly need to make a pilgrimage to the Hoover Building (nearest station Perivale) - a pity that it's no longer a factory but a T*sco supermarket. [ 30. November 2012, 08:22: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Chorister
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Using the Welby invective (didn't know I was familiar with the Durham rules, did you?):
Canterbury East
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Firenze
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I dunno. I don't think Baptist Trainfan followed instructions. I think he was captured by the other side and turned. He is now a ticking bomb. We have little alternative but -
North Queensferry
and even then we may be too late.
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Baptist Trainfan
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No, I do not tick (of course, the conspiracy theorists among you may see such stiff denial as further proof that I have been turned). Or do I detect a modicum of caring pastoral concern?
Perhaps a visit to Queen's Park will set things straight? Seeing it's St. Andrew's Day (just) you can go to the station of that name in the erstwhile Second City of the Empire, rather than down to the Big Smoke.
Unless you want to.
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Ceannaideach
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Kingsbury
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Firenze
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Baptist Trainfan, Central Control are considering your case. In the event that you are issued with the Black Ticket, England expects that you will act in the best traditions of the Game.
Remember Didcot!
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Baptist Trainfan
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(Trembles ...) [ 01. December 2012, 15:47: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote: Originally posted by Firenze: I dunno. I don't think Baptist Trainfan followed instructions. I think he was captured by the other side and turned. He is now a ticking bomb. We have little alternative but -
North Queensferry
and even then we may be too late.
I suspect the bloody Leamington Spa Mafia have got something to do with this.
Listen, Baptist Trainfan - you've got one chance to come clean - are you a member of the Leamington Spa crew? If you are, just be warned that no-one here takes your mates' shit seriously - as has been gone over ad nauseam up-thread.
If you're not, stop playing like you are. It's bad enough we have to put up with the bilge, lies, distortions and plain mis-statements from that bunch of hyena's breath mouth-breathers in the literature of late without having to put up with it on here.
It'll be the death of the game, I tell you.
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Ariston
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Whoa, Lemington Spa Mafia? KLB, I think you have entirely the wrong game here. While I'm sure we could do some vote-counting, role-playing, and general debating of strategies before we lynched him, I feel obliged to remind you that THIS IS MORNINGTON CRESCENT!
HA!
Next game starts at Blackfriars.
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Piglet
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Impressive win, Ariston, if a tad sneaky. For what it's worth, I reckon any connections our dear BT has to the LS mafia are in the interests of espionage and national security, so I suggest we let him get into his standard-issue Aston Martin DB5 (how on earth can one be incognito while driving about in a work of art?) and get on with it.
Meanwhile, back at the game, have your passports ready:
Pimlico
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Firenze
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quote: Originally posted by piglet: I reckon any connections our dear BT has to the LS mafia are in the interests of espionage and national security,
I hope it is so, piglet. But at the least sign of you-know-what, I think we need to say the Trainfan terminates at this station....
But meanwhile, to more serious matters.
Seven Oaks [ 02. December 2012, 10:30: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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Chorister
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Hmm, I see what you are up to there, Firenze, sneaking past us on the up line.
Fairlop
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Starbug
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Didcot Parkway
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Baptist Trainfan
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
The only time I have ever been to Leamington Spa in my entire mortal existence was when I was decanted upon its station by a Sunday service/engineering works bus substitution from Stratford to catch a non-existent train connection. (We eventually persuaded the driver to take us on to Banbury). Mind you, my English teacher at school really did drive a DB5.
However as a Baptist my connections to the Didcot mafia are, of course, unquestioned, although I've never really been a Great Western man myself. And, anyway, I am at present marooned on a scion of the Eastern Counties Railway.
Hence, in the interests of abject regret (nay, penance) and for the Greater Good of the Game, I throw myself upon your mercies and suggest Ravenscourt Park as my last church was just across the road.
Well, I've got to use those green chips before they expire. [ 02. December 2012, 17:02: Message edited by: Ariston ]
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Traveller
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That's a nasty, sneaky move, BT, under cover of pleading easy access to a church. (Are you really, really, sure about that Leamington Spa mafia connection?) No transfer to the Picadilly, no access to sarf of the river (I don't rate Richmond as a move), no nufink. Hammersmith would have left all sorts of options on the "Circle" line, as they call it these days, but Ravenscourt Park is a real backwater, with no reverse shunt available on Advent Sunday, of course.
The only decent move I can see is Tower Hill.
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan: ... my English teacher at school really did drive a DB5 ...
That must have been an expensive school if the teachers could afford DB5s. My old English teacher went around in a recycled, painted-over Post Office van.
But I digress. Is Canary Wharf acceptable when the correct liturgical colour is purple and I've got enough purple counters?
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Baptist Trainfan
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quote: Originally posted by piglet: quote: Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan: ... my English teacher at school really did drive a DB5 ...
That must have been an expensive school if the teachers could afford DB5s.
It was. But (a) said English teacher was the son of an Earl and had plenty of "old" money; and (b) I had a free place (the delights of the long-lost "Direct Grant" system).
Back to more serious business! You do realise that the height of the Cabot Tower at Canary Wharf has now been exceeded by the Shard at London Bridge?
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Welease Woderwick
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Which query will inexorably lead us to Cannon Street.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Oh dear. Do you realise what you have done? For there is only one place we can go from there on a Monday morning. Yes! Welcome to ...
Dollis Hill (shudders ...)
Or is there some arcane rule which will get us out of this mess? [ 03. December 2012, 08:05: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Welease Woderwick
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Good Grief, pull yourself together! It was after noon/afternoon here when I posted that - it is logged as 13.51 on my machine so, I'd guess, about 8.21 on yours, but, as you well know, time zones have been taken into account ever since the Berne Convention of 1889!
Hyde Park Corner
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Bit of a wiggle there, BT - it is, unfortunately, all to easy to be completely "in" with the LS Mafia without having ever been near the place; I'm therefore not at all reassured by knowing that you've never been to Leamington Spa; that wasn't the question I asked and I wonder why you answered a different one.
Have you considered a career in politics?
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Baptist Trainfan
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Well, I'm a Minister (Baptist not Wesminster) so you can draw your own conclusions about the veracity and trustworthiness of muy assertions.
However, I am seriously worried about the equivocation demonstrated by your last post - any stations with "and" in the middle betray a dangerous lack of topographical certainty (see this month's "Backtrack" magazine for further information).
We'll just have to be definite about things. High Street (Kensington). [ 03. December 2012, 09:52: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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I totally believe your assertion that you've never been to Leamington Spa.
And then you go winging off to Kensington and expect me to believe you've no connection with that bunch of dangerous nutters!
Dollis Hill - yes, again.
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Baptist Trainfan
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That seems very appropriate for Advent.
In a way that West Ruislip isn't.
Why is an unmarked train with tinted windows slowly drawing up alongside me on the main line? [ 03. December 2012, 12:10: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Ceannaideach
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*Hides Birth Certificate*
Leamington Spa? Nothing to see here folks.
Westbourne Park
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Welease Woderwick
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Aha!
Sloane Square so I can go shopping down the Koenigstrasse - Kings Road to those that want to know - and perhaps a drink at the Markham.
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Ceannaideach
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Assuming parallel lines are blocked a diagonal shunt should put us on
Barbican
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Starbug
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Nooooo! Haven't you ever wandered round and round in multicoloured circles, trying to make sense of their ridiculous floor plan? Oh, the wasted hours! We had to break out the bottled water and stop for a rest break after the fourth time around. That's a day of my life I'll never get back.
Quick, lets escape while we can and make a run for
Piccadilly Circus
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Latchkey Kid
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So WW wants to be a Sloane Ranger!
Well from any of the Circuses we can get to
Golders Green [ 03. December 2012, 20:20: Message edited by: Latchkey Kid ]
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Piglet
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Green seems to be the colour (which is just as well, as I found some green counters down the back of the sofa):
Kensal Green
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Welease Woderwick
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ITTWACW!
Parson's Green
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Ariston
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REVOCATION NOTICE!
All green tokens are herby REVOKED until further notice, under General Norm 1752, §1453, §§410. Puce tokens may be exchanged at a rate of e to π, fuscha ones are now valid between zones 2 and 4, and indigo may be used in all unrestricted zones. Rikyu gray passes are now fully functional, presupposing their validation by an authorized official, are printed on paper with a kozo fiber content of not less than 50%, and still show proper impressions from the letterpress. Validating officials can be found at many major and minor station stops, including Ascot Road. [ 04. December 2012, 05:39: Message edited by: Ariston ]
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Latchkey Kid
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Green Park is excluded from the revocation because it is no longer green but has passed from autumnal colours into plain brown.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Blackfriars will probably do, assuming that - in this multifaith age - we don't necessarily have to use stations which carry the correct colours for Advent. [ 04. December 2012, 06:54: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Welease Woderwick
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear - we ARE in a muddle!
If you exclude all diagonals then I think we have to head to
Angel
Which is quite appropriate as it is my move.
![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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Baptist Trainfan
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It's probably too early in Advent to go to Shepherd's Bush, sadly.
But if we go to Upminster we might be able to intercept those Magi on their way from somewhere in the East (Sarfend perhaps?)
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote: Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan: It's probably too early in Advent to go to Shepherd's Bush, sadly.
But if we go to Upminster we might be able to intercept those Magi on their way from somewhere in the East (Sarfend perhaps?)
Hmmm. Hard to imagine Jesus being born in Essex - where'd you find three wise men there, not to mention a virgin?
Therefore:
Morden
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