Sneaky.
But, with Summer Timetables in effect, and since it isn’t a leap year, the 1946 inverse sequence rule (even allowing for the subsequent abolition of ration cards) permits a left-handed backslide along the District Line … and the advantages of Baron’s Court are, I think, obvious.
Obvious advantages; but significant disadvatages to Barons Court, as we are into the whole “apostrophes” debate (earls Court, shepherds bush etc).
So to clear things up a bit:
Rayners Lane
Huh. “Clear things up a bit”, he says, and then plays a move that sends reactive tremblings halfway across Zone Four.
I can’t be doing with this. Someone else can debate the merits of Hufnall’s Shunt against the Fairlane-Hartington Convention with a Bank Holiday coming up; me, I shall retire to the comparative safety of Finchley Road and wait out the inevitable storm. It’ll all end in tears now, I know it.
Finchley Rd??? Finchley Rd???
Fighting talk!!!
MC with attitude! Extreme MC!
on that basis (and to make this a man’s game):
Canning Town
(jubilee line extensions are allowed in full contact MC)
Since an abandoned station has been played, then Etruscan Rules apply. Hence, British Museum.
Remeber, postal lines are never allowed in Haversham (1956).
Looking at nisbet placement, it would seem this would be a very good time to open with West Ruislip.
You all moan about it but rules are rules people - someone has to try and keep order in these games.
And i’ll change at Tufnell Park
I’m in danger of being completely Camberwicked here…
Unless… can I use an obsure rule that was never actually rescinded: Remember in the Twelfth Edition of the Laws (Hodder & Staughton, 1869), Page 2237, paragraph (g), subsection viii, they never printed the opening parenthesis, thereby leading to what was referred to as the *Perivale Oversight *loophole?
If I can use that, from Tufnell Park I can technically slide west-sou-west to Queens Park. Else, I am afraid, my game is over and I must concede.
According to my dog-eared copy of Elphinstone’s Compendium, all stations with edible connotations are playable at tea-time - and since they’re off the field at Trent Bridge at this very minute, I can leap in with Victoria (as in sponge cake, for the Americans’ benefit).
Fairy nuff.
Swiss (roll) Cottage.
Hmm. Checking up on that ruling, I found the 1973 codicil ruled that Elephant and Castle was not allowable - apparently, the committee reckoned that an elephant was properly considered edible only at dinner-time.
Which rather puts the mockers on my plan for a cross-town slip onto the Northern Line. Pity. Leaves me in rather an awkward position vis-a-vis the usual peak time blocking … I think I’ll have to chance a Roberts-Grant manoeuvre to Notting Hill Gate, and damn the consequences.
I have no idea what I’m doing but I think a hop on over to Kew Gardens is in order.
Kew Gardens would be a good play, Jeff, … a great play, even, assuming you’re mindful of the fact that in over 45% of MC games, the briefcase penalty for any station with at least two working water fountains means that you get about half the players using their skipturn.
But you neglect one tiny thing. In 75% of those games, you’re looking at MC being played by people who have briefcases with them.
This is an online game, so the odds are decreased drastically.
Guess who doesn’t have one with him.
I’ll just employ the Jadire-Pensley Creeper, 1981 and practically apparate to Hillsford Grove.
If the rest of you need a minute to catch up, I’ll understand. And do remember that Peagram’s Numbers 1899 apply here.
Hillsford Grove? Well, not much to do here other than head over to Totteridge & Whetstone. All my totteridges are dull anyway.
Somewhat accidentally, we seem to have completed Lyttleton’s Blowhole. All mainline stations are wild when travelling west.
In which case … and since the Shotton Convention definitely was ratified at Oslo in 1988, no matter what Culvershaw’s Definitive Rules Compendium says … Maida Vale! Ha!
Then I’ll follow Lennon-McCartney, 1967 and visit those 5,000 holes in Albert Hall.
Albert Hall! Jeff, were you present for the debate at Ursula’s Umbridge 1975? That very move was played a month prior (T&W to AH) and it was debated FURIOUSLY. They couldn’t agree on if the mainline wild applied if it was raining or not.
No matter, though. Thanks to Young’s Monstrum 1975 I can feel safe in playing a 6-stop station move. I’ll see your Albert Hall and raise you a Eule’s Post. I do hope you’ve remembered what happens if you follow with a crisp station.
Albert Hall is and has never been allowed under any set of rules thst I have access to. maybe you’re referring to the double shunt form Prince Regent to Royal Albert??. Euel’s Post?? What is that supposed to be?
Anyhoo, the last legal move was Maida Vale, which leads to Pimlico.
Please note that passports will not be required for players who have EU citizenship. The rest of you must miss a turn queing at your respective embassies.
Eule, Tapioca, not Euel. I’m surprised you missed it. While Euel’s post is, of course, a fictional location depicted in Twain’s oft-forgotten work The Maiden of Villery Foe, Eule’s Post is a valid stop on the double-west line, and just a hop skip and jump underground from Albert Hall. I suggest you consult your Nordstrom’s Exceptions 1955 for the specifics of playing such a move.
So Pimlico is right out, because Suburban Bidding* means you’d have to double-back four straight stops above ground, and that’s explicitly forbidden in Haversham 1956. From here, let’s see what you all make of Airdale Place.
Whoever wants to go next will want to remember that the briefcase penalty is still in effect for the next half-hour.