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kingsfold
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The old ones are still the old ones, aren't they?
Anyway, we really need to head to Clapham Junction
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Welease Woderwick
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It is probably not very safe but how about
North Sheen
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Two options at this point - to do as did the veteran German player Ken Zincktonheisstriet did at last year's European symposium, and basically throw a hissy fit...
...or to play Tottenham Court Road and await the fallout from those diagonals.
Oh, and that means that the Northern line has castled and the Central Line's in Nidd.
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kingsfold
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RooK to Knightsbridge
[ 04. December 2012, 14:54: Message edited by: kingsfold ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Originally posted by kingsfold:
RooK to Knightsbridge
I saw what you did there.
Barking, and down the snake you go!
You need a six to start again.
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Six Mile bottom
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And in that light of life I'll walk 'til travelling days are done
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Five Ways
You forgot it's a Tuesday! Nyer-nyer-a-nyer-yer.
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Earl's Court
From where you can go three ways - up, down or sideways. (Remember to check the colour of the interior metalware before boarding.)
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Upton Park
because I'm feeling bloody grumpy.
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I am sure you will agre that the next stop should logically be "Downton Abbey".
So off we go to Horsted Keynes which was used in the series.
** Nerd alert!!! **
Although I do not know how a Southern Railway (post-1923) locomotive hauling Metropolitan Railway carriages could possibly represent a country station in Yorkshire in 1916 (and yes, I am thinking of series 2)!
Anyway, the Cotswold stone was all wrong.
** Alert ends!!! **
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quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
... Hard to imagine Jesus being born in Essex - where'd you find three wise men? ...
Point of order:
Under amendments brought in under the Race Relations Act (Unkind Remarks Made About Minorities) 1984 KLB should miss a turn for disrepect to Essex Men. I married one, and (obviously) he's very Wise indeed. Anyway, they came from the East, and Essex is as far East as you can get without running into Baptist Trainfan.
Just to prove my point: Epping ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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I, too, was born in Essex but I'm not sure which side of the arguments that supports.
Staying with God's Own County - Hainault
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
Essex is as far East as you can get without running into Baptist Trainfan.
Not true - there's always Lowestoft (change at Ipswich for the East Suffolk line, new hourly service starts on Monday now that they've completed the Beccles Loop!)
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Dear me! Are we really going to re-enact the Daily Fail reader's wet dream that was the Aylesbury Extension Fracas of 1997? Isn't the canonical view still that although old William "Wimble" Don could have been more careful with his choice of jokes and anecdotes, he didn't really intend any offence towards the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, and no-one really thinks there's any actual truth in the old "daughter was his sister and his son was his brother" jokes about the good citizens of Shanklin.
Everyone knows that's Ventnor.
The fuss that was made is possibly the only real example of "Political Correctness Gone Mad" there's ever been. Common Sense does appear to have been restored however and the one about the Yorkshireman, the ewe and the hot water bottle told the following year by Lou Isham at Rochdale was both hilarious and received without incident. Well, if you don't count the Tetley's Enema, but that was just high spirits.
In honour of which:
Ryde Pier Head
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Wigan
If that's not too Orwellian for this stage of the game.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Very good. I see what you did there, as they say.
Am I correct that all lines are now out of Nidd. If so, doesn't the first person to say:
JINX!
get a free pass to Rayner's Lane, Ł200 for passing Go, and get a special +5 against attacks from the Elemental Plane of Earth for the next three segments?
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That sounds positively Meridianic, if not Elliptic, especially as we are so close to the Winter Solstice. Clearly a trip to the Royal Observatory is what is required - I think that Maze Hill might be a shorter walk than Greenwich itself, but you'll still need to climb the Hill.
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Welease Woderwick
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K:LB - I can't recall at the moment - was the Tetley's Enema beer or tea?
I think we are being called back to Essex and Rainham, which was always referred to in my childhood when travelling backwards and forwards to Fenchurch Street, as Rainham Marshes.
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It was beer, of course. I have never been able to decide which would be worse.
Goodge Street, btw.
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Welease Woderwick
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From Rainham?
Good grief!
Oh well, if you want to be like that then
Enfield Lock
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It's at times like this that I recall the move made by the great George Stephenson, (who started life as an amateur trainspotter before moving to a more dignified hobby), when playing against Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (portrayed marvellously by Sidney James in the epic biographic film Carry On up the Severn).
A move that IMVHO should have been recorded among the greats of the time. In memory of these two determined players I give you
Monument
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Very definitely
Paddington
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Welease Woderwick
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That leads me inexorably south of the river [sorry about that but then I believe some people actually have to live down there!] to
Surrey Quays
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I remember that film. With Barbara Windsor as Queen Victoria and Hattie Jacques as Disraeli.
But anyway -
Penge West
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Welease Woderwick
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Well, I suppose Harold Wood...
...he always struck me as that sort of chap.
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Are we playing word association or Mornington Crescent?
Mudchute will soon put a stop to that. Red chip, please.
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A red chip you say Chorister? I believe that according to the Mrs Trellis amendment we should land on
Debden
putting zones 1, 3, 4 and 5 in nidd between 03.00 and 13.37, excluding bank holidays and major saints days.
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East Molesey
Don't get your Hampton caught in the door on the way out! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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East Acton
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Welease Woderwick
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I think this calls for something a little drastic
Roding Valley
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Ah, the infamous Fairlop Loop Night-time Reversal, designed to swap your "A" end with your "D" end and turn all your comings into goings.
You do realise that the Piccadilly Line folk have to copy, don't you? Heathrow Airport Terminal 4.
Assuming, of course, that there is no snow on the runways to add to the confusion.
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Welease Woderwick
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Now I am in a quandary, partially caused by watching Portaloo wandering England [& the Continent] with an elderly Bradshaw and wearing MOST unsuitable clothing for someone who would purport to be a gentleman.
So, it has to be a diagonal from there, should I go up or down?
I know:
Knockholt
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You could always see-saw, Wodders.
Anyhow, time to move north to Crianlarich
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Due to an unprecedented number of Golden Haggi on the Line, last-minute diversion to Gretna Green. Bonus points for elopement.
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quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Due to an unprecedented number of Golden Haggi on the Line, last-minute diversion to Gretna Green. Bonus points for elopement.
The plural of Haggis is clearly Hagges, not Haggi - only second declension nouns take a plural in -i, and they all end in -us or -er in the nominative singular, never -is. Nouns in -is are almost invariably third declension masculine or feminine and take a plural in -es.
Which means I can play Birmingham New Street and start to bring things to a more exciting pass.
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Since when has Birmingham New Street been exciting?? I've spent far too many bored hours there waiting for a Norwich train.
Anyhow, I think we'd be much better heading for Rhyll
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Originally posted by kingsfold:
Since when has Birmingham New Street been exciting?? I've spent far too many bored hours there waiting for a Norwich train.
Anyhow, I think we'd be much better heading for Rhyll
Are we getting crossover from the pedantry game here?
I'll see your Rhyl and raise you Penrhyndeudraeth
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This is all going to end in tears and
Dovey Junction
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Llaniog Station , home of Ivor The Engine. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Llareggub
You know why.
[ 06. December 2012, 21:39: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
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Resorting to inverse vulgarity is really not tha answer, KLB, no matter how carefully you disguise it to look like a place in Wales. Back north, I think, to boldly go* even further than Kingsfold did:
Thurso
* I know, I know ... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Showing my age, I suppose, but, considering the time of year and the possibility of inclement weather north of the border I think we need to head south again via Manchester London Road.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
Resorting to inverse vulgarity is really not tha answer, KLB, no matter how carefully you disguise it to look like a place in Wales. Back north, I think, to boldly go* even further than Kingsfold did:
Thurso
* I know, I know ...
ACtually, Thomas did a bad job there; for one thing you never get a double g in Welsh, and what he put down would actually be pronounced Hlarreggib.
Hyde Park Corner
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Do you know, I suspect that a moment of sanity may have actually prevailed?
But for those allergic to Christmas crowds:
Berney Arms - for the windmill.
Told you it wouldn't last.
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Welease Woderwick
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Aha, the Windmill Connection takes us up to Merseyside and Bidston
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moving east...
Cullercoats
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Welease Woderwick
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Which brings me neatly to Purfleet
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