# Mornington Crescent Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832 "2004-09-30T13:08:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/21 "2004-09-30T20:18:11Z")
Tsk. You people are forgetting the notable gambit first played in '75 – Herefordworcestershire. It’d be shameful of me to take advantage of it given the restrictions set out in the OP, so I’ll simply sit this one out and kibitz from the sidelines. ---
**Author:** ![Ithaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Ithaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ithaka)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/22 "2004-09-30T20:40:54Z")
Stratford? Interesting, and you avoided the obvious Brixton gambit. I give you Crystal Palace . . . And on that low note, to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/23 "2004-09-30T21:05:02Z")
Read it and weep, Gentlemen: **Uxbridge** Vlad/Igor ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/24 "2004-09-30T22:30:56Z")
But I couldn’t play Brixton twice in the same ombiture, as I’l sure you’re aware… Chalfont & Latimer, just to make things interesting ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/25 "2004-09-30T22:32:04Z")
> [@Vlad/Igor](#): > > Read it and weep, Gentlemen: > > **Uxbridge** > > Vlad/Igor You’re leaving it open! **Ruislip Manor** no shunting. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/26 "2004-09-30T22:33:59Z")
> [@lno](#): > > Tsk. You people are forgetting the notable gambit first played in '75 – Herefordworcestershire. It’d be shameful of me to take advantage of it given the restrictions set out in the OP, so I’ll simply sit this one out and kibitz from the sidelines. While I admire your wild gambit, non-tube-stations aren’t allowed unless Morten’s Law in enforced. I’ll have to ask you to sit out the next three rounds. Study your diagonals, and pay close attention to Leytonstone. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/27 "2004-09-30T22:47:16Z")
Leytonstone leads straight to Buckhurst Hill. Amateur. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/28 "2004-10-01T00:16:20Z")
That opens the way for a Hainault loop inversion to [Gants Hill](http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/faq/filming/images/pw/203_large.jpg)… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/29 "2004-10-01T00:36:11Z")
I have finally read all the rules at the vaious online sites and I think I ready to jump in so my first move of my first game will be **Wapping** (really it’s just fun to say Wapping!) ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/30 "2004-10-01T00:48:59Z")
Terribly sorry. That was a rather brash move. Following the Calvinball Decree, I’ll play Tufnell Park (Hi Nigel!!). Vlad/Igor ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/31 "2004-10-01T01:49:57Z")
I’m an American, I _have_ to be brash. ---
**Author:** ![Ithaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Ithaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ithaka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/32 "2004-10-01T08:15:04Z")
Just like to say I’m currently with the delectable Samantha and I’m admiring her points. She is scoring rather highly . . . 😃 Oh, and with a neat little Pffizer conversion . . . Sudbury Town ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/33 "2004-10-01T08:30:13Z")
**Ithika** you seem to have scared off **Iceland\_Blue** with the Tooting Bec move, but Crystal Palace :eek: That’s dirty play in my book. Since you’ve got play out to zone 4(!) I’ll let it lie. I recon **Iceland** is toast now, M.C. in three? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/34 "2004-10-01T09:31:56Z")
Not if I open things up, via Euston. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/35 "2004-10-01T09:41:19Z")
Ha! You fool! Did you forget the amendment to Braithwaite’s Second Looping in 1990 which permits the diagonal cross-transit nodular loop. Chalk Farm. Blocking virtually any access to MC within the next ten goes 🆒 And the rules are freely available to any non-Brits. Just learn then and you’ll be in 🙂 It’s easy ---
**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/36 "2004-10-01T09:46:50Z")
Easy to play, virtually impossible to master… I don’t suppose he forgot the Braithwaites Second Looping amendment, just that he was wise enough to also realise it cannot pertain when in the last cusp of British Summer Time and the subsequent timetable variant 14c… would you like to reconsider? ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/37 "2004-10-01T09:49:16Z")
Nope. Look at the small print. On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (peak hours) the cusp of BST \*\*will NOT \*\* be operating. So I stand by my move… ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/38 "2004-10-01T09:58:15Z")
Oh, come on. We all know that Braithwaite’s only applies to refurbished 1938 stock. Swiss Cottage. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/39 "2004-10-01T10:02:37Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Chalk Farm. Blocking virtually any access to MC within the next ten goes. . . Well that plays both way doesn’t it. I see you’ve pulled play back into Zone 2, and the blinking Northern Line at that. **G-Man** I though the Jubilee Line was out of bounds ::runs off to check the OP:: ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/40 "2004-10-01T10:08:51Z")
Sections converted from the Metropolitan were exempted by the Bradford Tactical Council a few years ago, removing the Amersham stalemate issue. Bond Street. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=3)