If them Brits can play Mornington Crescent on here, then we can play MacArthur Park!

You know, the game that was so popular in the seventies and eitghties in which you would call out names of places mentioned in famous songs, and/or their titles, depending on what set of the rules you use. When it first came out, it was discribed as “Verbal Calvinball”

A typicall game would start like this:

Player one: Folsume Prison!

Player Two: Neo-Tokyo!

You can find a copy of your rule book in your local library, assuming it hasn’t been closed due to insufficent funding. The book can be found in the same section as “tricks you can do with a pocket calculator”, The Book of Nod, and the Necrotelecomnicon.

Since this is for the poor, underrepresented -in-this-forum Americans, they can use song’s by non-American singers, and use place names more than once, if it is from a diffrent song. When things get boring, this spiner will randomly pick another set of rules to go by. It will operate when it notices things are slowing down. I will just put it on this platform here, and I trust no one will try to spin it, just to change the rules. :wink:

Ready?

Wichita

“Wichita Lineman”

Whoops, just read the thread on game threads. Tellya what mods, if there are no post to this thread by the end of the day, how about you erase it? Do the mods around here do that?

MacArthur’s Park!

I win.

Guess where you’re stuck? Oh yeah.

Lodi.

Scarborough Town Centre!

[sub]Now there’s an obscure one…[/sub]

Interesting move Sunspace. I’m going to try and cut you off at Fairview Mall.

I’ll see your Fairview and raise you a Square One.

And I don’t even like cake.

:: raised eyebrow ::

There’s a song based on Fairview Mall? I thought citing Scarborough Town Centre based on Crash Vegas’ Scarborough was enough of a stretch…

I’ll continue eastward and add Whitby. I’m sure you can find the derivation.

[sub]Me? Arrogant? I’d be a worm to say so…[/sub]

Nice answers! But you know, I don’t recognize the set of rules the spinner is now pointing at. :stuck_out_tongue: Let me give it a try, anyway.

I find myself at Electric Avenue.

If that’s in San Francisco, would you see if my heart is there?

No can do. Sorry, but Electric Avenue is in Washington, D.C. Maybe another doper can met you in that general area. Make sure they wear a flower in their hair, so you can recognize them.

Looking at my last post, it looks like I am saying you can do that by the rules. Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound like that. I meant that I can’t do it, since I am stuck in Washington, D.C.

But maybe someone could give me detailed instructions on how to get to:

San Jose

P.S. Can I take another turn, like just now, in the case that I sounded rude or am I violating the rules? My rulebook seems to have the page on that section torn out.

Which rulebook are you using? I have Harrington, third edition, but I’ve heard that it sin’t definitive in some cases.

Harrington? That names sounds awfully British to me. Are you sure you aren’t John Bull, here to tease the poor little Americans with practically no word games to call their own?

::gives Sunspace a fishy look::

I have Dave’s Rules, 1st edition.

The Rock Bottom Remainders

Is this game going to be as shit as MC? Do we need to pretend to be crap Radio 4 presenters? If so, I am in! Using the Reykjavik amendment of 1217, ummm, ::ramble on a bit::, say something very British, err, ::reject your previous move::, Bolshevik Junction!

Radio four? Never heard of it, for I am an American. I think you are looking for the Mornington Crecent thread. This isn’t it.

I seem to have found myself in a Town Without Pity. Can anyone take pity on me and tell me how to get out?

Well, according to Article IV Amendments to the…uhhhh…Americaburg…version that I’m using, the easiest way out of Town Without Pity is to take the last train to Clarksville.

Thanks, but I am now in a Town without mercy.

Also known as Wicked Little Town

Go Downtown. The lights are much brighter there.