# The Humphrey Lyttelton Memorial Mornington Crescent International **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 25, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916 "2008-04-25T23:36:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916/1 "2008-04-25T23:36:03Z")
[The game will never be the same again.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7367385.stm)☹ _Green Park_ ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916/2 "2008-04-25T23:39:32Z")
I’m sure he won’t mind me playing _Old Street_. RIP. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916/3 "2008-04-26T00:21:01Z")
A jazzman will appreciate _Hornchurch_. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916/4 "2008-04-26T01:02:34Z")
Saw him just a few weeks ago live, and he could still damn well play that trumpet. A crying shame. I suspect a former living legend won’t begrudge _Monument_. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_B.Phart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Capt\_B.Phart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_B.Phart)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916/5 "2008-04-26T20:05:10Z")
And so young I’ll play the Reverse Diagonal (Hodgkin’s variation) “The saddest of all moves” \*Blackfriars \* RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916/6 "2008-04-26T20:27:14Z")
What more fitting than a quick **Fugue** to _Goodge Street_? RIP ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916/7 "2008-04-26T20:41:43Z")
According to the 1988 Montreux Declaration on Play-By-Post Mornington Crescent, the winner of a previous game cannot participate in the first 25 posts if someone has died since his last play. So it goes. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-humphrey-lyttelton-memorial-mornington-crescent-international/446916/8 "2008-04-26T20:44:01Z")
I’m not going to participate in the Mornington Crescent “joke”, which I find tiresome when not performed in the context of the show, but I do mourn this awesome bloke, who kept his bawdy sense of humour to the end - and I was amazed to learn that he played on the last track of Radiohead’s _Amnesiac_.