# Piper Cub and I hit Mornington Crescent ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644 "2017-01-08T19:23:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/1 "2017-01-08T19:23:45Z")
… just before the Tubes fall silent. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/2 "2017-01-08T19:27:50Z")
Piffle. This was supposed to be in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/3 "2017-01-08T19:31:18Z")
Does this mean you lost the game on the first post? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/4 "2017-01-08T19:32:39Z")
Well, given the Tube strike, we may have been the last Dopers to hit Mornington Crescent, so we may win by default. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/5 "2017-01-08T19:50:47Z")
If you walked away … then it was a good landing … ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/6 "2017-01-08T20:18:53Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Piffle. This was supposed to be in MPSIMS. I’ve got your back. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/7 "2017-01-08T20:28:08Z")
Back, or Bank? 😉 ---
**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:** [January 9, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/8 "2017-01-09T01:08:52Z")
Under these trying circumstances I invoke the Rule of Lord Blevins and proceed by red bus line #37A to South Kensington via transfer to bus #52C near Goodge Street. After a long wait on queue at the transfer point in the drizzle. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/9 "2017-01-09T03:20:56Z")
Well that is clearly not permissible under clause 6 of the very rule you cite; Lord Brevins had the foresight to allow omnibus moves during times of strikes of railwaymen, but only _using actual bus routes_. I have to assume you have your tongue in your cheek since as every Londoner knows there are no London Bus routes with letter suffixes. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/10 "2017-01-09T04:02:53Z")
Yes, **LSLGuy** is overthinking this. From Mornington Crescent to South Kensington, since there isn’t a direct bus route, just take a 24 bus to Cambridge Circus, then a 14 bus to South Kensington. Those routes both run 24/7, so you can that any time of the day or night. (My source: [the Central London Bus Map](http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/central-london-bus-map.pdf) - a PDF file) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/11 "2017-01-09T04:17:47Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Yes, **LSLGuy** is overthinking this. From Mornington Crescent to South Kensington, since there isn’t a direct bus route, just take a 24 bus to Cambridge Circus, then a 14 bus to South Kensington. Those routes both run 24/7, so you can that any time of the day or night. > > (My source: [the Central London Bus Map](http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/central-london-bus-map.pdf) - a PDF file) Ah, but that puts you in widdershins rump. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/12 "2017-01-09T04:25:25Z")
No I have to support \*\*Giles \*\*here. Widdershins Rump is waived during strikes of railwaymen. Turnham Green. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/13 "2017-01-09T04:39:01Z")
Ah ha! **Princhester** is placing a very clever trap there. From Turnham Green there’s a direct bus route (27) back to Mornington Crescent, but that would take you past both Paddington and Marylebone, and of course two main-line terminals in one move are not allowed during rail strikes. So I’ll take the 391 bus to Imperial Wharf (a very new station on the London Overground). ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/14 "2017-01-09T04:48:36Z")
Incidentally, a very useful resource for getting around London – and, more importantly, for playing Mornington Crescent during rail strikes – are the [bus spider maps](https://tfl.gov.uk/maps_/bus-spider-maps), which really have nothing to do with spiders, but are diagrams showing where bus routes go from various locations. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/15 "2017-01-09T11:58:41Z")
I had those as my back-up plan in case the tubes shut down before we got home. Also, I neglected to mention the special Sunday afternoon rule: Camden Town tube station is exit only, so by special directive of the not-yet-striking Tube officials, there was a five-minute hike to Mornington Crescent, after a couple of pints at the Camden Eye. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/16 "2017-01-09T13:07:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Under these trying circumstances I invoke the Rule of Lord Blevins and proceed by red bus line #37A to South Kensington via transfer to bus #52C near Goodge Street. After a long wait on queue at the transfer point in the drizzle. > [@Princhester](#): > > Well that is clearly not permissible under clause 6 of the very rule you cite; Lord Brevins had the foresight to allow omnibus moves during times of strikes of railwaymen, but only _using actual bus routes_. I have to assume you have your tongue in your cheek since as every Londoner knows there are no London Bus routes with letter suffixes. Ahh yes. But you cite the Rule of Lord Brevins. I was speaking of Lord Blevins’ Rule. Quite the difference as I’m sure you’re aware. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/17 "2017-01-09T15:43:46Z")
Wasn’t Lord Blevins’ Rule supplanted by the Blandings Protocol? ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/18 "2017-01-09T16:04:07Z")
No, it was Lord **Brevin’s** rule that was supplanted by the **Brandings** Protocol. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/19 "2017-01-09T17:35:41Z")
> [@BobArrgh](#): > > No, it was Lord **Brevin’s** rule that was supplanted by the **Brandings** Protocol. That’s nonsense: the Branding’s protocol was that when playing Tooting Bec or Tooting Broadway you had to precede the station name with “Toot Toot”. That bit of silliness was abandoned at the Marrakesh Conference on the rules in 1929, and it had nothing to do with the Blandings protocol. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-and-i-hit-mornington-crescent/776644/20 "2017-01-09T21:59:23Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Ahh yes. But you cite the Rule of Lord Brevins. I was speaking of Lord Blevins’ Rule. Quite the difference as I’m sure you’re aware. Well this does create an interesting situation but, if I may be so bold, have you quite thought this through? I concede your point but since neither Lord Blevins’ nor Brevins’ Rule explicitly overrules the 1902 General Rules of Play, your objection to my objection was made too late. The player to your right _had already called their station_ so any irregularity in my objection was waived. That gives me a right of Cockney’s Git, so all blue lines are wild and the General Force Majeure created by the strike of railwaymen means _that includes Night Buses_ Baker Street.