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Piglet
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Red Chip for Piglet. Wasn't even the right film ...
He did more than one, you know. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
If I've got a red chip, according to my 1965 rule-book, my best option is Moskva 3.
Either that or I've got to miss a turn ... ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Baptist Trainfan
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Perish the thought!
Lots of nice chips (together with excellent fish) at Whitby, of course. Come by steam train.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Via connection at Goathland I can do a Thinly Veiled Reference to a Sexual Offence children's literary link to Hogsmeade
This could be an interesting few plays; Svalbard is of course in Nidd which makes any moves relying on the Dust problematical.
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The Midge
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Mmmm. Children's literature eh?
Well if we go back to the Island of Sodor will open up quiet a few possibilities. Knapford Junction
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kingsfold
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Sodor yourself. I think we should head up to Mallaig, for Skye.
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Baptist Trainfan
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I think we need to return to London (change at Fort William for the Deerstalker Express).
What about a visit to the Underground's most unsuccessful station? Hampstead (North End) aka "Bull and Bush" never ever opened!
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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No, that just won't do; you can't just plough through a whole zone where interchanges are spooned without either going ethereal or using a potion of the same. Since no such potion has been in any hoards, and you're not a magic using class, neither applies to you.
I think that means you're on the buffers at Euston for two clicks.
A quick check of the dilithium crystals and a level 3 diagnostic tells me I can recalibrate the phasor array and use the deflector dish as a tachyon phase modulator, which allows me to create a brief trans-warp field and deposit us on Vulcan
Very appropriate. I wonder how challenging Vulcan MC would be? It'd make our simple little game look childish, I'm sure.
[ 03. July 2013, 11:12: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
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Net Spinster
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Vulcan probably uses either a grid system based on latitude and longitude or polar coordinates (with 0,0 being the city center) or line name plus numbers for the station (e.g., Northern 4). It is amazing how few cities there are in the future trek (San Francisco being one notable exception). I wonder if Colma will still be active and will use a last gasp trick to get there.
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AndyB
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Especially if you mean the BART station in California, I'd say it's life, Jim, but not as we know it, which takes us across the universe to Abbey Road and St John's Wood - in good time for the second test.
(whatever happened to Headingley and Edgbaston, not to mention having six tests when playing in England?)
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AndyB
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Unfortunately a side-effect of my last move is that I'm stuck at a red signal and there is no hope of the train stop dropping, so I can't take two turns in a row even after so many days - control just laugh at me when I ask for authority to reverse.
All I need is for the right person to move, and the junction and signal will clear.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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It's got all bogged down hasn't it?
There's really only one way to lift this game out of its current mire.
Snowdon Summit
That's a Rack and Pinion bonus of course. Bus transfers are at double cost for four segments, but return journeys along the Conwy Valley line are free if that helps.
(Hint - don't do what I did in Llanrwst the other week and try to play a standard gauge time shift across to Barmouth. You end up being up the Afon Mellte without a paddle and have to perform a forfeit of singing Men of Harlech with a leek inserted into you. If your teammates are feeling generous, that is. Otherwise, well, you know...
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Baptist Trainfan
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Penrhyndeudraeth (Cambrian Coast Line) - I think the Explosives Factory has closed, but you must beware that you don't miss the train as it is a Request Stop!
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The Midge
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Ok, a fairly basic move to Enfield Lock and the closed factory where they made the famous rifle.
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Piglet
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Talking of armouries and such things, is Tower Hill wild on Tuesdays in July? And if not, will it get us out of the current fix?
If it is, obviously I'll miss another turn* ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
* or possibly have to go Back To Old Kent Road
[ 10. July 2013, 01:34: Message edited by: piglet ]
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Net Spinster
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Only on Tuesdays with a new moon so you are in luck. I'll send us to Aldershot to continue the trend.
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The Midge
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Ha! Woolich Arsenal That will put you in knip if only one ferry is running. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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AndyB
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Oi! That knip khurt!
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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You lot really do like playing this game the silly buggers way don't you?
But if that's the way you want it:
Cockfosters
(this move of course uses the real Underground map, including the two stations they never dare put on the public maps).
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The Midge
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Mrs. Flittersnoop says Cockfosters as that's where her sister lives (whom she visits on her free Thursday afternoons).
(But we don't have to listen to her if we don't want to).
As you can see we have already been through Cockfosters. I think this is an illegal move as it does not conform to the Humphrey Littleton Circle Line Convention. It is an old rule but we really should maintain some standards ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Willie Rushton's Neasden Circuit is legal however. So it is Neasdon where the birds sing-done.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Which leads us on very nicely to Frank Muir and Dennis Norden's Bal-ham, Gateway to the South.
Of course we're on the Southern Electric now and the voltage is different. Who knows how that may affect us (not to mention the Lack of a Fourth Rail?)
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AndyB
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Hmm. I think we might have to go round in circles for a while, so we might as well do that at Grange Hill and swot up on our rules while we're at it.
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The Midge
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in which case I had better be quick before KLB gets in!
Mornington Crescent.
So lets start with Marble Arch. There is a risk of the Fool's opening being played before midnight I admit, but I'm willing to give it a punt.
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Piglet
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Oh I say, Midge, that was well played! Right up there with the Men's Singles at Wimbledon (not much point in going there for another 50 weeks).
However, I understand there's now a cricket match going on ...
Nottingham
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Net Spinster
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Fairly close to Gotham but alas no station there. Let's loop back to London under the knitting circle rule and Blackfriars near Barts. Who shall purl now?
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Baptist Trainfan
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What about Kni(gh)tsbridge?
That's making me feel sheepish already, probably with good reason!
[ 11. July 2013, 07:04: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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The Midge
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I'll round you up:
Barking.
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AndyB
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I thought of stopping at MOONington Crescent, but perhaps we'd be better with a googly to take us to Covent Garden
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Piglet
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"They named her Victoria after the central London station where she was found ..."
Do I spy an opportunity for a series of children's books, TV shows to fill in the gap before the early evening news and soft toys?
... with apologies to Paddington. Please look after this bear. Thank you.
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The Midge
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Shunt to Goldhawk Road
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Baptist Trainfan
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Silvertown & London City Airport (closed).
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Good job there's a test match on so you can't be out first ball, isn't it BT?
I think that's a blue chip from your stack to the player on your right. South is now dealer; fours are wild and two jacks highest bid.
Given the question mark hanging over the third umpire after yesterday's - erm - fun and games - I think there's probably a royal flush* to be had by playing Nottingham Victoria. Closed station/tram convention applies, of course. Robin Hood line is spooned.
*female member of the Windsor family going through the menopause?
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AndyB
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Hmmm. So you're the prince of thieves, are you?
A trip to Port Laoise should sort that out.
(for those who don't get it, check your history ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
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The Midge
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I am a name not a number.
Portmeirion
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Via Portsmouth we are now able to at least get back onto a tube train at Ryde Pier, but I think it'll take a few more moves to get to the London Underground again.
Extra cover and silly mid-off in place, so assuming nothing at square leg and no-one bowling a googlie (such as Dollis Hill), then there should be a good lasting volley over the next set.
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The Midge
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Using this anagram tube map I found Holding Nil. I believe it is a googlie and Hillingdon by any other name.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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You try to drop hints, to steer things in a dynamic direction, but someone always gets creative in the Wrong Way.
Dollis Hill
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Piglet
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No no no no no!!! Not Illish Doll!!!!
Just as well I've got some orange chips that I really want to get rid of ...
Belfast Central should be fun today.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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What a terrible waste of Orange Chips in non-peak hours on a Friday. You can't straddle like that without causing a reverse shunt in Zone 1.
So Dollis Hill
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The Midge
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So if I go to World's End where does that leave you KLB?
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AndyB
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Mornington Crescent I would have thought!
New game - remembering that the intention is to finish at Mornington Crescent, let us play that variant where we start at Mornington Crescent and try to get back there again.
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kingsfold
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Well, that's relatively straightforward I would have thought. It's Friday and there's no R in the month. I don't have any chips of any colour, therefore my move must be Moor Park.
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Net Spinster
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I have one chip of each color so I Bank, give Piglet a royal purple chip, and ante in a brown chip.
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The Midge
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I had a bag of chips last night. The remains are a bit cold. There is no fish on Saturdays but seeing as I'm early I'll try to get some at Heron Quays
You can have some of my chips if you want them.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Probably a better bet than Mudchute which has presumably all dried into a brown, cracked desert in this hot weather.
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Piglet
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... give Piglet a royal purple chip ...
Gosh - thank you! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I've always wanted to visit Hampton Court, for which a purple chip is Just The Thing.
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The Midge
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I don't have any purple chips. But now some of mine are turning green. So moving parallel along the Thames to Kew Gardens
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Net Spinster
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I don't have any purple chips. But now some of mine are turning green. So moving parallel along the Thames to Kew Gardens
I'll take two of Midge's chips offered earlier and feed them to the ravens even further down the Thames at Tower Hill in exchange I'll give one cardinal red chip and toss a rainbow colored one in the river for whomever can make the right move to claim it (admiralty rules apply).
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