# No Mornington Crescent yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 21, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569 "2008-02-21T15:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![president\_eric\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@president\_eric\_b](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/president_eric_b)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/81 "2008-02-22T20:11:18Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] That sounds really familiar–isn’t that the same play _Deep Tube_ played against William Wigglesworth in the 2004 _Man v. Machine_ Mornington Crescent exhibition? [/QUOTE] Unfortunately, I won’t be joining in as I am in a self imposed exile from the great game of Mornington Crescent since I sided with the Sheffield-Magyar axis during the Marmite Slice Incident at the Stoke Poges Open in '97, but I believe _Deep Tube_ is now utilised as an Oyster card reader at Liverpool Street. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/82 "2008-02-22T20:24:06Z")
That’s a shame, **pres eric b** , though I think the statue of limitations for such an offense (even self-imposed) is 10 years, so you can probably ease up a little. How about wearing a Scarlet SM on your chest? So…a Thibault cancellation… **Willesden Junction** ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/83 "2008-02-22T22:26:59Z")
Following up on the Thibault cancellation naturally progresses into the Bishop maneuver. The obvious play is of course **Finchley Road**. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/84 "2008-02-22T22:43:09Z")
Followed by the recommended play of **Green Park** , taking Bishop to Level 4. Gorlick’s Commentary on the maneuver makes it sound so obvious, but it has never really made sense to me. Can someone explain to me, in small words, why **Snaresbrook** wouldn’t work just as well? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/85 "2008-02-22T22:52:29Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Followed by the recommended play of **Green Park** , taking Bishop to Level 4. Gorlick’s Commentary on the maneuver makes it sound so obvious, but it has never really made sense to me. Can someone explain to me, in small words, why **Snaresbrook** wouldn’t work just as well? [/QUOTE] Keeping it as simple as possible, **Snaresbrook** would constitute a deterministic causality (in and of itself perfectly valid), HOWEVER the Thibault cancellation expects a complex vector space. Heseinbergs uncertainty principle quantifies it the best, but it certainly boils down to the quantum state itself being the fundamental physical quantity. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/86 "2008-02-22T22:55:52Z")
Actually, it does. I’ve been reading the appendix to Thibault, and he seems to allude to this in Section 7.3. That would explain the weasels. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/87 "2008-02-22T23:01:01Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Followed by the recommended play of **Green Park** , taking Bishop to Level 4. Gorlick’s Commentary on the maneuver makes it sound so obvious, but it has never really made sense to me. Can someone explain to me, in small words, why **Snaresbrook** wouldn’t work just as well? [/QUOTE] Yes, but only in Tralfamadorian, requiring negative temporal sense or a really sophisticated HD video recorder to comprehend. King’s Bishop captures Gojira on Bravo-6 and Literary Metamorphoses for $600 gives **Leytonstone**. It’s getting tight! Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/88 "2008-02-22T23:27:14Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Actually, it does. I’ve been reading the appendix to Thibault, and he seems to allude to this in Section 7.3. That would explain the weasels. [/QUOTE] Glad to help. I’ve felt for years that they should publish a condensed version of Gorlick’s Commentary. While interesting on a theoretical level, his blatherings about the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and unneeded parallels between Mustela Frenata and Mustela Nivalis really don’t help explain the concept on a practical level. (Was he being paid by the word or what?) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/89 "2008-02-23T00:30:21Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] King’s Bishop captures Gojira on Bravo-6 and Literary Metamorphoses for $600 gives **Leytonstone**. It’s getting tight! Stranger [/QUOTE] Ha!!! Only one in a thousand would have seen that one! The Central Line Manifest now allows me an “Old” North London Line Protocol transverse of **Highbury and Islington**. ---
**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/90 "2008-02-23T06:33:36Z")
Oh boy. I am still working from Galton & Warburton (1983) right now. It seems things have changed a lot since they published that classic, _The Application of the Sub-Surface Gambit in Extradimensional Play_. I have a lot of reading to do. Speculatively, I will go with **Archway.** ---
**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:** [February 23, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/91 "2008-02-23T09:21:33Z")
I’ve just received a letter from a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales. She enjoys **Tooting Bec** , and let’s face it, who doesn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/92 "2008-02-23T09:24:32Z")
You guys are out of hand. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/93 "2008-02-23T13:51:31Z")
Well, to rescue this game from the clutches of pan-deterministic relativists, I will fall back on the Classical Newtonian play of **Marylebone** , which should return us to a more classical game, as described so eloquently by Balmer, Wigginsen, et al in 1935’s _Extract of Slovenian Defences, Germanic Openings, and Trans-Siberian End Games_. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/94 "2008-02-23T21:14:19Z")
Aha! I detect the unmistakeable signature of a devotee of the Huttons Ambo school! **Dagenham East** , stirrups inverted. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/95 "2008-02-24T00:17:53Z")
**Waverly Bridge** , Edinburgh. Shaka, when the walls fell. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/96 "2008-02-24T00:56:16Z")
**Waverly Bridge** with stirrups inverted, calls for **Bounds Green** , with stirrups reversedand inverted. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/97 "2008-02-24T02:32:19Z")
**High Street Kensington** , which puts us solidly into late-mid-game, with Collingswood’s Annex in terminal disarray. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/98 "2008-02-24T02:50:46Z")
Are we playing GMT, Chicago time, or Zulu? I need to know, because it’s Sunday here… Anyway, i’m going to use a favourite move of mine - the _Commissioner’s Exemption_, albeit adapted slightly by combining it with an inverse transfer (to minimise risk if knip) and will move **Bayswater**. (It worked for a young Takayama when he defeated the Canadian master Adler at Oslo in 1963) ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/99 "2008-02-24T20:39:48Z")
Hmmm, I think I see what you’re trying there my antipodean friend, however, **Gospel Oak** will put a stop to _that_ little scheme. **MC** in 8, I think. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569/100 "2008-02-25T05:31:38Z")
Not so fast, oh canine swimming beastie. You forget that Marshall Idrington rewrote the Stockholm Conventions, after that mess with Meisterson and Williams. Our next stop is **Limehouse**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mornington-crescent-yet/438569.md?page=6)