# Morninton Crescent! Extra points for stations with working AC! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727 "2003-08-12T20:56:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/1 "2003-08-12T20:56:38Z")
Seeing as the British Dopers are sweltering under a blazing sun, it’s time for some relief. I think the Haversham (1956) rules are most apt (no journeys of more than three consecutive above ground stations during daylight hours) Special rule: Anyone who can reach Hampstead (192 feet below the ground) receives double points. And what do points mean? I’ll start with **Aldgate East** ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/2 "2003-08-12T21:04:48Z")
I’m always up for a game. I’m happy with the Haversham rules, provided we specify no picnics. That would be foolish! The obvious response would be **Kilburn** but I’m going to go sideways to Camden Town. It’s a new tactic I’m trying and while I admit that it’s experimental, I’m willing to unleash it in a public game. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/3 "2003-08-12T21:36:17Z")
“Loggins!” Based on that Triple Interrupt, I’ll play a Scotch Leapfrog to Goodge Street. Suburban bidding is allowed on alternate primes. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/4 "2003-08-13T07:07:06Z")
I employ the euloth gambit and move to Alperton station. (and from a yank no less) unclviny ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/5 "2003-08-13T09:47:13Z")
People - remember to use the WMCA standard notation please - All station names must be **bolded** as must **called plays**. All Rule invocations must be _italicised_ and annotated with the year. Otherwise i’m going to invoke _Hodgekins Law_ (1992) and call **Shindigs** on those who don’t comply. Anyway, I open at **Hounslow East** as usual and call _Signal Failure_. BTW: Can i call **Warped Rail**? I can never remember whether the _Haversham_ Rules allow it or not - and none of the online texts i’ve look at refer to it. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/6 "2003-08-13T09:50:02Z")
alperton? Going to the Brent area this early could be costly (remember the old adage; “North West is seldom best”). But if we’re playing devil may care MC: Dollis Hill. (which is an above ground tube station, which should liven things up a bit) ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/7 "2003-08-13T09:51:12Z")
pah; banjaxed by Garius’ premature ejaculations! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/8 "2003-08-13T12:26:32Z")
**garius** , nitpickery like that in a social game is tedious. Save it for the grudge matches. :rolleyes: Anyway, **Tufnell Park** , for the **straddle**. (_Cryer, 1956_, for those who _must_ know. :rolleyes: again) ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/9 "2003-08-13T12:42:02Z")
Right this time I am going to get my bid in. I’m assuming that as this is an internet version of the game we will be using the recent changes to Hammond’s protocols? Especially that relating to Circuses. (this would be in line with postal versions of MC). Assuming that: Parson’s Green (allowing the straddle) ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/10 "2003-08-13T12:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Malacandra \* > \*\ ***garius** , nitpickery like that in a social game is tedious. Save it for the grudge matches. :rolleyes: > > Anyway, **Tufnell Park** , for the **straddle**. (_Cryer, 1956_, for those who _must_ know. :rolleyes: again) \*\* Bite me **Malacandra** - you’re still bitter because i beat you in the Londis Cup Semi’s this year. **Hounslow East** to **Kings Cross** And i call **escalator repairs** ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/11 "2003-08-13T12:55:01Z")
Piffle. **Escalator repairs** were disallowed in the 1997 Uxbridge Congress due to ubiquity (where _aren’t_ there escalator repairs?). Using the **Oval Deflection** allowed in the _Summer Timetable_ rules, I play **Tooting Bec**. ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/12 "2003-08-13T13:45:59Z")
OK… _Summer Timetable_ rules… With _Weekend Engineering Works_ or without? I call **Woodford-Hainault until 2000 hours only** and play _Central Line_, **Bethnal Green** ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/13 "2003-08-13T14:00:17Z")
beffnal green? We are seeing the nicest places. Let’s raise the tone: Ruislip Gardens. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/14 "2003-08-13T14:11:23Z")
I know it’s risky, but employing a _Mrs. Teliis’ excuse me_ I can make it right across to **South Kensington**. At least the Science Museum is nice and cool. Of course we’re employing _Summer Timetables_. We’re not some uncivilised antipodean. _Warped rails_ are allowed to be invoked, but only for above ground stretches. Thus Garius’ initial call of **Hounslow East** should have placed him in permanent _Nip_. We all missed that one and now he’s safely below the pavement. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/15 "2003-08-13T14:41:44Z")
Hah! In that case, I’ll have a gold token’s worth of _Suburban Bidding_ and invoke _Jigg’s Whip_. **Hyde Park Corner**. Anyone else feel like inviting me to bite them? :wally ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/16 "2003-08-13T15:04:14Z")
My move, I believe. I will call upon _Mortimer-Smythington’s “Ephermal Principia” (1912)_ and move, with grandiloquent ease, to **Swiss Cottage**. The biting, sir, is all yours. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/17 "2003-08-13T17:55:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tapioca Dextrin \* > \*\*_Warped rails_ are allowed to be invoked, but only for above ground stretches. Thus Garius’ initial call of **Hounslow East** should have placed him in permanent _Nip_. We all missed that one and now he’s safely below the pavement. \*\* “ **Knip** ”, shurely? **Swiss Cottage** is nice in the summer, or so I hear. Plus, it fairly stymies me. Or it would, if I didn’t have to option of playing my one **Nomenclature Trump** (applicable only in Tourist Season, of course) and skew to **Russell Square**. It’s a risky move, but you really didn’t leave me any better options. ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/18 "2003-08-14T05:35:54Z")
Just popped in to say I’M COMING TO LONDON IN 8 DAYS! WEE!! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/19 "2003-08-14T06:02:08Z")
Right. It’s about time we shook things up. I’ve been looking in the archives at alt.games.mornington-crescent.arcania and found something most useful (posted in _1998_, in case the above posting by **garius** has any effect whatsoever): _Bartham’s Rule: if the previous four station stops have all started with a consonant, and the furthest two (in terms of order of play) both started with the same letter, then a move to an abandoned station may be played if and only if that station begins with a vowel and was not terminated in an odd-numbered year._ So you can put away all your objections via Carpal’s Dictum and the Grave-Shipley 1934 conference, because **Iolanthe Square** , which as we all recall got shut down in 1978 due to lack of business (plus that stoat infestation), is a legal move. AND it’s above ground AND it’s surrounded by water AND there is only twice-a-day ferry service. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727/20 "2003-08-14T06:04:55Z")
And yes, I am invoking the 1856 “high H value” rule. I didn’t think it needed a mention, but then I forgot **garius** is here. Otherwise I think it’s a given. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morninton-crescent-extra-points-for-stations-with-working-ac/194727.md?page=2)