Picture captions… [ doper ] swallows lno … [ doper ] wipes dribble of lno from chin … lno, drained dry, is carried from the table by a member of the bar staff … etc
Damn these page breaks. Damn them to hell.
lno, would you rather let one of the male or female dopers take you (the pint you, that is ) in their throats in one long swift motion?
Ladies first, of course. They all should have a chance before the gentlemen take their turn.
What sort of pint? It does make a difference. I’ll try to get photos of lno pint for you.
I have no idea what you all are talking about in the last several posts. I assume it’s some cultish UK Doper thing that I’ll probably not understand.
This is a game? Anyone care to explain, even broadly? Sound interesting!
It’s Mornington Crescent and I’m afraid we can’t tell you much more than that. It’s an ancient game, its secrets imparted from mother to child, generation to generation. Beginners start with a Fulchester shunting and over the course of many many years build up their knowledge of diagonal sidings and the Wrong Leaf Pass. They must learn the ways of Bartlarty and Corumble before being allowed within 10 feet of the playing area. I myself am a novice, despite an extensive foray into Double-ticket Play. In Britain we don’t have Retirement Villages, we have Centres for Advanced Mornington Crescent.
Francesca is having a bit of fun and waxing lyrical. Mornington Crescent is just a really good game to play in a pub since you don’t need any equipment like a board or pieces. It’s very popular here in the UK. Some of the advanced rules (e.g. crossed Bassingtons following motion North) get a bit complicated, but they generally only apply to very special situations which the beginner can safely ignore. The essentials are easily picked up. I won’t bother listing the rules here because there are so many websites which explain them quite clearly, many with good instructional diagrams showing, for example, good opening moves. [ And by the way, knowledge of the Corumble convention is no longer a pre-requisite for gameplay. It was declared non-canonical at the Bruges Summit, 98 ].
TwistofFate are you a Zoromir fan too?! He was fantastic wasn’t he? I often play over the games from the 84 title race - some truly mindblowing stuff there! It was Zoromir I think (or maybe Chattridge?) who first found the elusive second escape from a Squitch played on the Victoria line (without Stumps declared, obviously, or else the problem is trivial).
It just shows what you miss being away from the boards for a few weeks (This thread btw, is what I am refering too.)
I will be in London the weekend after (31st May) and was there on Monday - I don’t think I’ll be able to make it the 20th as well . . . 
Which is a shame.
Somebody try and change my mind. Please.
If you got your name from Coneheads, you must come down so that someone can gnarfle you.
gnarfle? 
[sub]You can take that as a no[/sub]
I’m going to be there. All the way from sunny France. Garty, my little warthog, you must attend and make me the happiest Yank at the pub.
If you fail to attend, I shall never forgive you.
bump
Just a few days away. Come on! You know you want to hear Francesca’s sexy voice in person!!
Sounds good to me!
Put me down as a “F*ck Yes!”
grins
<Horrible thought>
Isn’t Eurovision Saturday night? :eek:
I’m not sure I’m willing to give up one of the finest opportunities to laugh at foreign-types the year has to offer just to spend time with you reprobates…
Oh, what the hell…I’ll be at the pub. England will lose anyway.
C an we go to a pub that will have the Eurovision on??
please?
I need a good laugh!
As long as they put the subtitles up too! 
Ok, if I could just clarify this…
The general idea as I understand it is…
1pm at Waterloo Station (under the giant clock)
or later on…
7:30pm at The Silver Cross in Whitehall
Is this correct?
And do we need to all wear a “red carnation and be talking about the weather in Moscow?”
grins
Yep. I’ll be instantly recognisable as I’ll have two beautiful women at my side.
Damn Twisted, I didn;t realise we had met already!
Oh, Eurovision and drinking is one of my great personal traditions. I’m sure we can find it somewhere.
Otherwise, Eurodopers and drinking will just have to be the new personal tradition…