# I don't get Mornington Crecent **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 15, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-mornington-crecent/585628 "2011-06-15T23:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-mornington-crecent/585628/21 "2011-06-16T22:38:19Z")
Y’know, I’m a lurker in those threads, never a player, and I can’t say _why_ I enjoy it so much, or why it doesn’t seem repetitive to me. But I get a real kick out of the threads and admire the hell out of the better ‘players’. I dunno, I’m an improv fan and a rabid Anglophile, so maybe that helps. Or perhaps it’s simply like free-form jazz. To some it’s random, incomprehensible, unmelodic, self-indulgent noise. Others may be captivated by the spontenaeity, complexity and the give-and-take among the musicians. You don’t have to be music-challenged to be in the former category, and you aren’t more sophisticated if you’re in the latter; it’s just taste. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-mornington-crecent/585628/22 "2011-06-16T23:00:06Z")
It’s also quite a bit like standup comedy: 1. It’s funny when it’s good, but 2. It’s awful when bad, and 3. It’s usually bad. Skilled MC players are like skilled comedians; you just don’t get tired of watching a master jokester spinning jokes, even if you’ve heard the joke before. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-mornington-crecent/585628.md?page=1)