That's sad -- ISIHAC rocks.

My wife and I play Mornington Crescent, though an LA Metro-based version, just for surreal laughs sometimes. Good times, good times.

I have watched and loved many shows he was involved in. A sad day.

FTFA: The 55-year-old was hit by a truck on Marylebone High Street in central London --- Police have launched an investigation into his death and a post mortem is due to be carried out at Westminster Mortuary.

How will the meat wagon get from Marlybone to Westminster when the Oslo conclave of 1975 strictly forbids taking an extra turn if you are jumping the diagonal without disecting the Amersham Reversal into the Old Kent Road?

TheCharmerUnderMe: FTFA: The 55-year-old was hit by a truck on Marylebone High Street in central London --- Police have launched an investigation into his death and a post mortem is due to be carried out at Westminster Mortuary.

How will the meat wagon get from Marlybone to Westminster when the Oslo conclave of 1975 strictly forbids taking an extra turn if you are jumping the diagonal without disecting the Amersham Reversal into the Old Kent Road?

Yeah That!

/wut
//no really wut

Marylebone is always a tricky move. Dolleighton/Brownsington invocation doesn't touch on the Bassingthwaite Hook Lateral manuever.

RIP Geoffrey.

So long, and thanks for all the laughs.

He should have taken the siding reversal to Gloucester Rd.

fustanella: He should have taken the siding reversal to Gloucester Rd.

Lets have some respect here please.

Everybody knows that Golder vs Nymann (544665 para 5.6) is calling the Winston-Waal move a weak move, a Darius-Klein gambit would be better in this case.

goeniegoegoe: Dolleighton/Brownsington invocation

You're going to bring up this controversial decision in such a sad thread?

Let's not turn this into a flame war.

TheCharmerUnderMe: Let's not turn this into a flame war.

Seconded, but it set the precedent ruling the Northbridge & Mulhouse maneuver illegal in parallel points matches. Keep that in mind.

Sorry if I sounded disrespectful there.

To everyone who is upset because of the passing, please remember...

DON'T PANIC!

He had a chance at living, but the guy sitting next to the ambulance drive called Dollis Hill, resulting in them driving in circles for an hour.

Wow, I always knew Aldwych was a dangerous move, but I had no idea it was LETHAL!

In honor of Mr. Perkins, I invoke Rowen's gambit, as allowing according to the Granlibakken-Hut Convention of 2004, see page 37 of the convention proceedings, sections D4.62-.67 excluding section .65 as per the Benet Street vs Seeley decision of 1995.

goeniegoegoe: fustanella: He should have taken the siding reversal to Gloucester Rd.

Lets have some respect here please.

Everybody knows that Golder vs Nymann (544665 para 5.6) is calling the Winston-Waal move a weak move, a Darius-Klein gambit would be better in this case.

Your strategy is suspect at best, your citations dated and you couldn't consolidate an already strong Watford quadrant if your life depended on it. Typical Dutch bluster. I'm off to Earl's Court.

40below: goeniegoegoe: fustanella: He should have taken the siding reversal to Gloucester Rd.

Lets have some respect here please.

Everybody knows that Golder vs Nymann (544665 para 5.6) is calling the Winston-Waal move a weak move, a Darius-Klein gambit would be better in this case.

Your strategy is suspect at best, your citations dated and you couldn't consolidate an already strong Watford quadrant if your life depended on it. Typical Dutch bluster. I'm off to Earl's Court.

You could just get on the tube at Great Portland Street. I think the Regent's Park station is closed on Sundays.

brigid_fitch: In honor of Mr. Perkins, I invoke Rowen's gambit

I am speechless, invoking a Rowen's gambit, you're completely throwing away all courtesy and do this?? Without even considering the Bennington Principle and Haavt-Thurstwarbler dipoles versus the Phrast Recital and Gobbins-Dexter Ruling? Damn, that's unheard of.

40below: I'm off to Earl's Court.

Are you still allowed to play MC after your recent slapping by the board of directors? I vetoed your reinstatement as a pro player, but alas, even weak players should get a chance I guess. I hope this time you don't run away from the thread and come crying back later.

brigid_fitch: Wow, I always knew Aldwych was a dangerous move, but I had no idea it was LETHAL!

In honor of Mr. Perkins, I invoke Rowen's gambit, as allowing according to the Granlibakken-Hut Convention of 2004, see page 37 of the convention proceedings, sections D4.62-.67 excluding section .65 as per the Benet Street vs Seeley decision of 1995.

That leaves you at Holborn though. Shouldn't you stick to the Yakashima-Denisovich concordance of 2006? That would at least free up Willesden Junction (per Section 14b, Sub-section 7, Paragraphs 7-12) and block off the Hammersmith and City Line from Ladbroke Grove.

goeniegoegoe: Are you still allowed to play MC after your recent slapping by the board of directors?

You're one to talk.

After your use of the Romington Splice during the last year's Dutch playoffs, you nearly had the Netherlands kicked out of the Northern European Semi-finals.

goeniegoegoe: brigid_fitch: In honor of Mr. Perkins, I invoke Rowen's gambit

I am speechless, invoking a Rowen's gambit, you're completely throwing away all courtesy and do this?? Without even considering the Bennington Principle and Haavt-Thurstwarbler dipoles versus the Phrast Recital and Gobbins-Dexter Ruling? Damn, that's unheard of.

40below: I'm off to Earl's Court.

Are you still allowed to play MC after your recent slapping by the board of directors?

Yes, taking off my shoe and pounding it on the desk while scraming that the Swamp Germans are ruining the sport that I love may have been a bit over the top at the '06 Symposium, but in my own defence, I was drunk and I could not bear to see another variant of Kiddie Krescent played at an international by our wood-shod bretheren. Anyway, my Grandmaster status was eventually restored at the cost of only two red tokens.

Tickets for Joan Rivers in London ????

I don't like these foreign language threads.

I hope you don't drown in the swamp 40below. We'll see how it goes, maybe someday Canada will get past semi-pro status. A warning though: the CEO and my lawyers are watching this thread any slight misstep on your side and we'll see each other in court (again). I don't have to remind you about the last time that happened, now do I?

I've got no farking idea what you all are talking about, but I am LMAO

My brain hurts from reading this tread.

goeniegoegoe: I hope you don't drown in the swamp 40below. We'll see how it goes, maybe someday Canada will get past semi-pro status. A warning though: the CEO and my lawyers are watching this thread any slight misstep on your side and we'll see each other in court (again). I don't have to remind you about the last time that happened, now do I?

Yeah, yeah. "I'm out of order? I'm out of order? THIS WHOLE STINKING SYSTEM IS OUT OF ORDER." Then the thorazine. I remember.

Let me be the first to say, "Who?"

/British "comedy" is not

Mornington Crescent!

Lipspinach: I've got no farking idea what you all are talking about, but I am LMAO

Then you've got the gist of the game :D

RainDawg, the Glouscter Mispelling disallows your attempt to win.

You should have gone Southchester.


/this thread reminds me why, even with all the mindless flaming and trolling that has become the norm here, why I still love Fark. :)

eatcake: Then you've got the gist of the game :D

Despite your insidious use of a smiley in a MC thread I feel the need to differ with your simple minded opinion here.
Mornington Crescent is a strategy game of wit that has been around for centuries. I'm afraid that the rules would take far too long to summarize in a thread, but a basic understanding of the game can be had by watching a match. In fact, most of the non-tournament players will be happy to allow you to join in and try some maneuvering of your own. If you'd like to join our mini-match here, you're more than welcome. We'll give you a friendly correction if you play out of bounds or try to use any of that claptrap from Smythe-Davis et al. vs. Whackerton Livery Ltd.

That said: Ruislip Manor (+3)

That 'claptrap' won the Southern Crescent Regionals of 1984, so I wouldn't discount it.

'Tricks' are only tricks after someone cries after losing to a quick win.

I've been banned from a Quickplay (Halibut Throwback after a reverse Whiddington, 2005 ESQ Regional, I can't believe I made such a simple mistake), so I'll have to wait until three more Welshman shunt.

goeniegoegoe: eatcake: Then you've got the gist of the game :D

Despite your insidious use of a smiley in a MC thread I feel the need to differ with your simple minded opinion here.
Mornington Crescent is a strategy game of wit that has been around for centuries. I'm afraid that the rules would take far too long to summarize in a thread, but a basic understanding of the game can be had by watching a match. In fact, most of the non-tournament players will be happy to allow you to join in and try some maneuvering of your own. If you'd like to join our mini-match here, you're more than welcome. We'll give you a friendly correction if you play out of bounds or try to use any of that claptrap from Smythe-Davis et al. vs. Whackerton Livery Ltd.

That said: Ruislip Manor (+3)

Fine, try as you might, that move only works if you don't know that it's possible to take the 10:32 Highgate to Marble Arch, switching to the Bakerloo Line. And I do know. And thanks to the time difference I can. Now turn around and go back the way you came in.

++RIP Geoffrey Perkins, you left the world a little better than it was when you came in++

Fine, try as you might, that move only works if you don't know that it's possible to take the 10:32 Highgate to Marble Arch, switching to the Bakerloo Line. And I do know. And thanks to the time difference I can. Now turn around and go back the way you came in.

No, no, no. You are forgetting that is the last sunday of the month; which means -following 1998 Winthrop/Westchester convention- that you can only enter the Bakerloo Line on stations starting with the letter W, like Willesden Junction ,Waterloo or Wembley.

Mornington Crescent
I think of you
Rain in the southeast
Men feeling blue
Men with their bowlers
Kids with their spats
Ladies with chauffeurs
Dogs wearing hats and jackets
Rich apartments
Old punk posters
Tartan garments
I love the exquisite array
I love the camp as camp parade
The possibilities suggest themselves to me
Im feeling free

Mornington Crescent
The sun in the east
Ive got a job on
For a Senegalese rich arbitrator
In African law
To paint his apartment, strip down the walls
Came down between us lately
Lust and want and need just caved in
Is it wise?
The answers no
It never is but since you ask
We pause thoughtfully, for twenty seconds reprieve
Then its off with the briefs

Mornington Crescent
Sin is my game
Well all be lined up
Irrelevant fame
Next to the broker, the nurse and the drunk
I was a joker, the wannabe punk that got lucky
Had a good time
Life became fruitless
Egotistic swine to all your friends
All the ladies and the men
The possibilities suggest themselves to me
Were a little too free

First thing I thought of.

Ha! I am playing all five of my aces, thus invoking the OK Corral amendments. This leaves you all in spoon, and means that all Picadilly line interchanges are wild.

And with that, I am taking the rail replacement service to West India Quay. HAHAHHAHAHA!!! Did't see THAT coming, did you!

Now I know what you're going to say - that when playing Rowen's gambit, moving to West India Quay leaves your flank completely exposed. BUT, you would be forgetting that when in spoon, flank attacks are strictly forbidden. (Spitalfield variations, section 12, paragraph 4 clauses 1, 7, 8f and 21d ... read 'em and weep!)

Sad sad news :( I'm off to Cheddar Gorge to pay my condolences

(Beppo, your an idiot)

bikkurikun:

No, no, no. You are forgetting that is the last sunday of the month; which means -following 1998 Winthrop/Westchester convention- that you can only enter the Bakerloo Line on stations starting with the letter W, like Willesden Junction ,Waterloo or Wembley.

Ha! I, like many more enlightened players from the southern hemisphere, refuse to recognise such a flawed document. If you had attended last year's International at Olympia you'd have seen the controversy about the most egregious conflicts the 1998 Winthrop/Westchester has with the firmly established 1964 Rules of Polite Play by the master James Hestington III and the less known 1984 publication Egg Benedict and MC: How I Learned to Stop Taking That Turn at Tooting and Love the Circle Line.
Nevertheless, I will show you that I can still end up on the Bakerloo Line without that move; as I still can take three stops past Tried-on-Kent and get there, since I am fairly certain I saw earlier that there are Canadians playing today. It doesn't get me to Marble Arch, but the fact remains.

Mind the gap?

Tirian: Ha! I am playing all five of my aces, thus invoking the OK Corral amendments. This leaves you all in spoon, and means that all Picadilly line interchanges are wild.

And with that, I am taking the rail replacement service to West India Quay. HAHAHHAHAHA!!! Did't see THAT coming, did you!

Now I know what you're going to say - that when playing Rowen's gambit, moving to West India Quay leaves your flank completely exposed. BUT, you would be forgetting that when in spoon, flank attacks are strictly forbidden. (Spitalfield variations, section 12, paragraph 4 clauses 1, 7, 8f and 21d ... read 'em and weep!)

HA! And here is why you should keep up with your newsletters and emails people. The DLR now extends past West India Quay, meaning that while we are in spoon, I'm fairly certain means you can't stop...
I may need reference on that though. Can anyone back me up here? Do we have an Arbiter in the house? Perhaps someone at Conductor level or above? And don't go flashing your Oyster Card around like it means something.

Nevertheless, I will show you that I can still end up on the Bakerloo Line without that move; as I still can take three stops past Tried-on-Kent and get there, since I am fairly certain I saw earlier that there are Canadians playing today. It doesn't get me to Marble Arch, but the fact remains.

Ha, you are shooting yourself in the foot there. Even if you can get on the Bakerloo Line,the 2nd appendix to the records of the 12th Paddington conference clearly points out that in case of Canadians in play anyone on the Bakerloo line is forced to change to the Victoria line as soon as they reach Oxford Circus, after which there it is mandatory to travel at least until Blackhorse Road before the next move can be made.

ghost_who_walks: Do we have an Arbiter in the house?

Reference to the actual A-Z is of course forbidden during matches. New Farkers are loaned a copy to bone up on and the Referee uses the 1971 edition for Dispute Resolution. However, since a Challenge to the Referee's decision leads to expulsion from the site if the Referee is proven to be correct on reference to the hardcopy, we have very few Disputes and we haven't had a Challenge for years. This, and the fact we've banned playing for money means we have a very harmonious website and avoid the problems I know some websites have.

Blast! I took the wrong spur of the District line and ended up in Wimbeldon. As a last attempt at flushing, I'm on Tramlink to East Croydon to leverage a "Victoria's Castle" at Embankment to preserve my turn (and self-respect).

lohphat: Blast! I took the wrong spur of the District line and ended up in Wimbeldon. As a last attempt at flushing, I'm on Tramlink to East Croydon to leverage a "Victoria's Castle" at Embankment to preserve my turn (and self-respect).

Why not go all the way to Lambeth-North and perform a Boddingworth-maneuver? Or are you playing by Glastonbury-Smith rules?

bikkurikun:
Ha, you are shooting yourself in the foot there. Even if you can get on the Bakerloo Line,the 2nd appendix to the records of the 12th Paddington conference clearly points out that in case of Canadians in play anyone on the Bakerloo line is forced to change to the Victoria line as soon as they reach Oxford Circus, after which there it is mandatory to travel at least until Blackhorse Road before the next move can be made.

I know the man who is the reason for that 2nd Appendix. Do you know the story about it? He attempted to make a second-to-last move from Fenchurch St to Chadwick St station ... get this... by taking a black cab!!! Seriously! The problem was that because two moves earlier someone had declared that Tower Bridge was closed for lift maintenance, he was able to invalidate years of convention, tradition and unwritten law! He is no longer able to play, of course, but he has told me that he considers it worth it: to have made such a memorable move that they had to add to the Paddington conference. While I don't know if I could ever pull such a move (and I promise I won't today!) I must admire his boldness.

So, I'm all the way out at Blackhorse Road then. Well, then, I best catch the 1:52 into Heathrow and wait for the Express. Your move.

goeniegoegoe:
Reference to the actual A-Z is of course forbidden during matches. New Farkers are loaned a copy to bone up on and the Referee uses the 1971 edition for Dispute Resolution. However, since a Challenge to the Referee's decision leads to expulsion from the site if the Referee is proven to be correct on reference to the hardcopy, we have very few Disputes and we haven't had a Challenge for years. This, and the fact we've banned playing for money means we have a very harmonious website and avoid the problems I know some websites have.

Good call. But what happens to those caught fare evading? Or wait, don't tell me you've gone completely over to the Oyster cards? Am I playing in a post-paper-ticket game here? You have to put warnings up if you're going to do that... the tourist jam alone renders Oxford Cicrus, Covent Garden and Tower Bridge almost completely useless! Not to mention the moves that allows under Section IV, para.12 of Stanley's Guide, 3rd Ed....

So, I'm all the way out at Blackhorse Road then. Well, then, I best catch the 1:52 into Heathrow and wait for the Express. Your move

Sorry I am out for today. I was planning to change to the Watford DC line at North-Wembley in an attempt to aim at Harrow & Wealdstone, but I encountered two Russians at the platform, and since I am bound by Glaston-Fordyce rules I now have to travel back and forth between Kenton and South-Kenton for 15 times. So there is no way anymore for me to catch the 17:15 Midland train today.

bikkurikun
Why not go all the way to Lambeth-North and perform a Boddingworth-maneuver? Or are you playing by Glastonbury-Smith rules?

Er.. I thin you'll find that Glastonbury-Smith has been superceded by Glastonbury - Evans Smythe since the DLR extension to London City Airport opened.

How else are you going to complete a quarter-Watford?

bikkurikun: Sorry I am out for today. I was planning to change to the Watford DC line at North-Wembley in an attempt to aim at Harrow & Wealdstone, but I encountered two Russians at the platform, and since I am bound by Glaston-Fordyce rules I now have to travel back and forth between Kenton and South-Kenton for 15 times. So there is no way anymore for me to catch the 17:15 Midland train today.

Well, I'm afraid that geography has me bound here; I'm no better off as I have miscalculated and missed the last Express for today. I hand my moves over to any player willing to take up the mantle: Under Rule 7 of the Geoffrey Perkins Definitive Guide, I step aside. Good luck to whomever takes over from here. I just hope you Mind the Gap... heh heh heh

/seriously, it's 2am Monday morning where I am, I have to go to sleep before I go to work!
//bikkurikun, you play a damn fine game, and for that, I hope you enjoy wasting more time on this site over the next month than you have before ;-)

++And most seriously, Here's to Geoffrey Perkins... Look at the fun he let us have!++

whoah, thanks ghost!

ghost_who_walks: //bikkurikun, you play a damn fine game, and for that, I hope you enjoy wasting more time on this site over the next month than you have before ;-)

Nice one ghost, great move.

I'd almost let you win for that. But unfortunately there is no credit given in love, war and MC.

Rutheridge (+4)

I was gonna submit this just now.

RIP

bikkurikun: whoah, thanks ghost!

No worries, enjoy. Sleep time for me now...for reals!

goeniegoegoe: Nice one ghost, great move.

I'd almost let you win for that. But unfortunately there is no credit given in love, war and MC.

Rutheridge (+4)

Arrgh, backstabed at the last! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! It's the 2001 Rothdam Convention all over again! Well, as I said there, I'm out anyway, so you used up a perfectly good Sideways Slide for nothing really. It's cold comfort for me, but perhaps using that up may save some other poor soul who plays with you!

[[ghost retires]]