Aldsgate forces a transfer station. So I’ll say Paddington, which unfortunately in turn forces the next player back to Dollis Hill, unless anyone can actually apply that cryptic footnote in Blakemeer’s Commentaries on the Dollis Hill Loop.
:smack: Like I said, first time.
Dollis Hill. Might as well get it over with.
Oh, and since I’m a former Xian falling on a grenade during Double Nativity Wheedle, it’s a Fire and Brimstone round.
That might let me back in the game today, if I can rely on the rulings in the MC ancestor, Lavanah Hadasha Shahara.
I Call For Judgment on the following statement: “Given the current game state, a non-Xian may play during a Fire & Brimstone round during Double Nativity Wheedle.” I cite LHSh as precedent, and Bacon Salt’s move as evidence. The next player has to judge my statement TRUE or FALSE.
ETA: Bricker, I’ve heard of many twisting interpretations of that cryptic footnote, all different. I doubt any of them can be applied here.
Call For Judgment: I’m taking a page from Greg Hill’s seminal work, playing off of the Syadasti principle: your statement is slightly more false than true. Only Lutherans, Greek Orthodox, non-denominated Episcopalians and Discordians may play.
As I’m now on Fire (sans Brimstone), I’ll play Euston by way of Oxford Circus, by way of Waterloo, by way of conveniently-placed hansom cab rented for 3 red tokens and a promise of nibs in a future round.
Hold your applause.
Dang, that put me in knip until Boxing Day. Well played, sir, well played.
I know I’ll get slammed for this, but i am nothing if not consistent. As Lord Hope of Craighead observed in 1998’s Westminster Invitational:
I agree. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the number of outs (and overruns, blocked lines, etc.) that come into play. I’m the first to admit this is not a simple game, but the MC community needs to keep a handle on this kind of egregious inflation.
That said, I acknowledge that the rule is valid. As Eldrigder said, “Blast Greg Hill, and damn his heirs and assigns!”
Also, I’m in knip. 
Only until Boxing Day Bricker, only until Boxing Day.
Boxing Day… Boxing Day… Nope, just Asara b’Tevet coming up. I may be able to resume play that evening.
Technically not necessarily.
Observe as we roll back:
Euston bwo Oxford Circus bwo Waterloo (3rt)
Dollis Hill
Paddington (xfr)
Aldsgate (!!)
Bank
Westminster (sd) (!!)
And now we get to the trouble. Scuba_Ben legally played London City Airport, but if you look at the fact we were (and are) in a Dollis Hill Loop, there was no possible Gold General promotion. That means Wargamer’s play of Bank (while again still legal itself) cannot trigger Silver Tinsel Times or indeed any silver themed restriction.
So count 'em up: six standard, six extended, twelve for the three reds, and today is the 22nd. So by my count, I’m out of knip on Christmas Eve at 9AM GMT.
And now that I’ve had a chance to think about it, I should have gone out Heathrow way, setting up a possible promotion to Rhino King. That would definitely have made the move to Bank a Bad Idea ™, if not outright blocked it – for you do not rpt not want a rhino charging down the long diagonal then stepping up the file into your bank.
So Bricker, Wargamer, and I are all out for now. Someone else could jump in here and win the game, in the spirit of the Flessy - Pergeson championship qualifier series. (Which, astute MC stats-geeks recall, came down to a match between two unranked players as the sixth tiebreaker of the main match. I think NFL tiebreaker rules were based on that incident.)
I was saving this until later, but seeing as the circumstances call for something a bit more… esoteric, I shall have to invoke the Pimlico Passport (as employed by Hollingworth at the 1949 Empire International Tournament in Sarawak) and play Ealing Broadway.
Esoteric is right. The line of Pimlico Passport favored by Resnick & Halliday at the Pimlico (MD) Meet, spring 1984, has an MC in 15 moves by White, assuming perfect play. At the Rosecroft Meet, spring 1986, however, no fewer than four players attempted the Pimlico Passport only to discover that thoroughly crappy play by Black prevents White from ever forcing MC, and in one case even led to a win by Green. Yet at the 1990 Kentucky Meet, a dramatic attempt at an intentionally misplayed Pimlico Passport by White led to a stunning victory for Rose, by a neck. (Much to the shock of Black, who had been the heavy favorite going into the Meet.)
The problem with the Pimlico Passport is that Customs has been declared in the this game, THEN CALLED OFF. (Sorry about the virtual shouting, but in a Dollis Hill Loop one cannot be too restrained.)
The Kentucky Meet, while useful, clearly never had Customs declared AT ALL (again, sorry. Damn Dollis Hill Loop), rendering the reference to Rosecroft OUT OF BOUNDS! (No Dollis Hill that time, I just felt like shouting.)
Anyway, since Scuba Ben brought it up, a closer reading of R&H reveals that Bricker and I can advance our Out of Knip up by 17.35 moves, which, if I have counted correctly, with the GMT Time Dilation Adjustment, means we can resume play after the next move. Or Thursday, whichever comes first.
My mistake. I should have referred to the Belmont Meet for precedent. The incident was indeed at Rosecroft, but Kentucky generally follows the rulings at the previous Belmont Meet.
Santos’s play at Belmont (1999) shows an interesting use of Pimlico Passport Declined in the face of two Wheedles, a forced capture, and a pin on Heathrow 1, 2, 3. I can only hope to do so well when I get back in this game, if it’s still going on then.
I find it fitting, on a Holiday Jaunt, that it’s Christmas Eve (at least at my local time).
As everyone else seems to be in the knip and I’ve got a green and a red token left (after exchanging two browns for another red, anyway), I’m just going to move straight along the Camden line to Mornington Crescent
It was hard-going there for a while, but I was glad to see Fire and Brimstone come into play. I haven’t been in a Holiday Jaunt variant since I was in short pants, and it brought back some great memories…
I’m afraid you forgot the bylaws established by the Victorian Retrograde Congress of 1957, that allow a red/green combo on Boxing Day–the 26th, not the 24th–so I’m afraid busting out your Christmas cracker is slightly premature.
Ironically, if you’d have kept those two brown with the green, you could get a pass on the Tannenbaum exemption, emulating a fir tradition that would’ve allowed you to progress to Belsize Park–not a full win, but a firm step closer.
That said, I’ll reignite things with Hyde Park Corner.
I’m out of knip under either interpretation now, so I’ll go Chigwell, with MC in 9.
Whee, Boxing Day is here, and I’m out of knip too!
Piccadilly Circus,
and you KNOW what that means in a Nativity Wheedle game.
I do.
Now that you toss that broad hint my way, that is. So I have a choice of a Jubilee or a District play, eh?
Fine. Bromley-by-Bow, MC in 13. Slight delay, that’s all.
Bank, and MC in 12.
Bricker is on a roll.