# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/121 "2004-10-02T21:48:28Z")
I think you’ll like this; punctuated hatching is open again, but with the inner octagon essentially frozen, that won’t buy you much, but we can implement Dutch three-quarters folding and it becomes obvious that **West Harrow** - I haven’t seen this move played since the famous, or I should say _in_famous Crandall debacle in '89, but that was used in conjunction with Welsh point marking and against a two-thirds uphill shear. Here’s hoping it won’t end in fatality this time. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/122 "2004-10-02T22:13:26Z")
Sorry, I realise I didn’t finish a sentence there; It becomes obvious that **West Harrow** will set the game in a state of open trunk banding; have at it! ---
**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/123 "2004-10-02T22:27:29Z")
Ahhh… late night, beer, smart move which in the cold sober light of dawn is revealed in all it’s mediocrity… **Epping.** (twinned, bonded and reciprocally tied with Cockfosters) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/124 "2004-10-02T23:43:14Z")
Taking advantage of the Keele proxy switch manouevre, combined with a Belgian triangular shuffle, \*\*Mornington Crescent! \*\* Oh the joy! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/125 "2004-10-03T00:16:50Z")
At the risk of a play out of bounds: South Kensington. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/126 "2004-10-03T01:41:00Z")
[hijack] What on earth is going _on_? 😕 [/hijack] ---
**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 3, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/127 "2004-10-03T08:44:47Z")
Aha!Having studied hard, I can assure you that since Hollis Wells was killed off in 2002, I need not insert classification deniers to under 21s. Therefore Soho ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/128 "2004-10-03T14:16:25Z")
Oh, jolly good show, **Mangetout**. I move to **London Bridge** and invoke the Bridging Rule, from the Unified Conventions of 1984 – the next cross-river move must stop at the first legal station. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/129 "2004-10-03T18:34:07Z")
By the book then; **Limehouse** ---
**Author:** ![InvidiousCourgette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@InvidiousCourgette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InvidiousCourgette)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/130 "2004-10-03T18:47:47Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > [hijack] > What on earth is going _on_? 😕 > [/hijack] It is a BBC radio 4 game. Those who know invent the rules. Some people allege that it is crap. I am a fence sitter. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/131 "2004-10-03T18:57:11Z")
**Limehouse**? You’ve just set yourself up there for Lord Barrington’s reversal. Did you ever even read the 1986 Croydon Amendments? Well, fine, I’m not going to show any mercy on you. **East India** ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/132 "2004-10-03T20:20:59Z")
Countering with the directional wrap-around, **East Acton**. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/133 "2004-10-03T20:39:41Z")
Heathrow - ah, but you think, silly Yank, doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Heathrow, such a silly move, certain to leave him trapped. But I’m not finished. **Heathrow… Terminal 4!** Ha! HA! Find your way out of that, why don’t you. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/134 "2004-10-03T22:45:54Z")
**Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3** puts you at risk of the Infinite Servisair Loop. Ha _ha_! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/135 "2004-10-04T09:01:53Z")
Hehe. **Captain Amazing** walked straight into my layered bilinear ensnarement - textbook stuff - solid moves from other players subsequently, but still not preventing me from declaring Weissmuller’s Paradox by effecting balanced displacement to Edgware Road. Watch the zones now folks; any player executing a shuffle or slide to cross two or more boundaries must take steps to avoid mirrored shift forfeits. ---
**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 4, 2004, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/136 "2004-10-04T09:07:15Z")
Boston Manor ---
**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/137 "2004-10-04T10:00:12Z")
…allowing me to slide you into the old Central Line Processional… **Oxford Circus** That should give us time to catch out breath… the MC equivalent of an F1 Safety Car, if you forgive my flight of fancy. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/138 "2004-10-04T11:00:33Z")
**Chancery Lane** , by the Monday Opening Rule (Wigginsbank, 1958). ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/139 "2004-10-04T16:23:20Z")
Ah. The perfect setup for Sir Lyme’s famous (infamous?) “Valencia Defense.” Twin overs; I declare **St. Clement’s**. ---
**Author:** ![mcms\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mcms\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcms_cricket)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/140 "2004-10-04T19:06:16Z")
Hmm. That’s tough. OK, **Russell Square** with an over-land shuffle (according to Snerdlington’s American Rules c. 1952) to **Goodge St.** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=8)