Because ISIHAC is back tonight, and in the true spirit of Humph...
Let's have a right-royal rollicking round of Mornington Crescent. Please, remember that the 1884 Half-Scrotum is banned at present.

You go first, I am chair.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:02, 39 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Mornington Crescent

(PsychoChomp, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:03, Reply)

I say, that's just not cricket, old boy.

(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:03, Reply)

Sorry can't talk,
I'm doing a victory lap of the building.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:05, Reply)

Can't run and talk?
Very b3tan of you.
( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:54, Reply)

Easy one to start with, although it exposes the diagonals
Birdcage Walk.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:15, Reply)

Hmmm. I'll play it safe I think.
Kings road.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:16, Reply)

is this game
like zen risk?

if so im invading Kamkatchka with 7 from Western europe
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:21, Reply)

The Embankment
which, I believe under Huffington's second manouvre, may well land you in early knip
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:22, Reply)

Curses!
Okay, that doesn't leave me with a good opening. Hrm. Okay, I think I might regret this, but - Blackfriars road.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:24, Reply)

right back at ya with Charing Cross Road

( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:25, Reply)

Are we allowing the 1964 diagonal cross rules?
If so, I play Kennington park road.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:27, Reply)

It's the offshoot from the original 1864 Stovold rules, which is virtually identical to the modern game,
except is only allows disgonals from Paddington if the previous player ended up in Spoon by their third move
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:28, Reply)

Oh, well that rather invalidates my last move....
Hrm. I'm going to go for Blackheath hill in that case then.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:31, Reply)

Can I go Chancery Lane now or am I blocked under the Farringdon Lemma?
As I recall there was some dispute.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:26, Reply)

That was resolved under Poole's third ruling.
Leicester Square.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:33, Reply)

Weep, contenders.
I am starting out from Temple.
( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:35, Reply)

Fiendish opening gambit there, Clenders.
I'll start out just over the river, at Waterloo.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:42, Reply)

I prefer to start a little further out
Hornchurch.

Not just a move, it's a way of life.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:46, Reply)

Very smooth...
I think I'm forced to Osterley at this point.
( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:51, Reply)

Slipping this in in Kings Rules
Hounslow east.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:47, Reply)

Oh sneaky! That's the way it is, eh?
Well in that case...
Croxley!
Ha!
( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:50, Reply)

Damn you!
Right - gloves off. Kings Cross.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:51, Reply)

*shrieks*
YOU DIDN'T?
Warren Street. WARREN STREET!
( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:52, Reply)

Right. If that's the way we're playing this, I'm using the Mornington Croissant
CHALK FARM, BITCHES.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:03, Reply)

I hate to be a pedant,
But surely under the 1884 Half-Scrotum ban, a move to Chalk farm is technicaly illegal, seeing as someone has already played Kings Cross?
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:06, Reply)

Not if a Mornington Croissant is played in conjunction with the Seventh Reflex Oeuf Parabola.

(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:06, Reply)

Yes, but under the 1885 Half Scrotum ban clarification
The Seventh reflex Oeuf parabola loophole can't be played in conjunction with a Mornington Croissant, with the exeption (of course) of Elephant and Castle and Lamberth Way. I mean, the 1885 clarification was mostly concerned with closing that little loophole, after the controversy of the 1884 christmas tournament.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:11, Reply)

In that case, you'd expect the succeeding playr to miss a turn, or go on strike.
However, given the nastiness of December 1884, I shall bow down to this one, gracefully. I find myself in Nidd.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:15, Reply)

I salute your good sportsmanship sir
December 1884 was nasty indeed. Some harsh words where exchanged. Nidd huh? Given that move I'm going to go for Clerkenwell Road.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:21, Reply)

ooooh!
Great, good thing you said something, for some reason I thought it was on friday.
Oh, Victoria.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:48, Reply)

Hmmm...
I'm playin' the long-game.
It'll get you in the end though.
Kinda like AIDS.

Saaaaf Woodford.
( Cawl, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:55, Reply)

Station circle
Marylebone - Waterloo - Victoria.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:59, Reply)

I have no idea what that means.
Also, I have no idea what this game is.
( Cawl, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:01, Reply)

Mong.

( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:02, Reply)

Damn right!

Oh, go look at the thread I just posted!
( Cawl, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:03, Reply)

Interrupting a rubber of MC in progress to shop your thread?
You couldn't have been more offensive if you'd played Goodge Street.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:14, Reply)

I always thought Mornington crescent was the stiffy guys got when they woke up : /

( girlinthehole, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:15, Reply)

MADAM, YOU SULLY OUR GAME.
I BITE MY THUMB AT YOU.

Ow, that really hurt.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:24, Reply)

That Mornington Crescent always makes me laugh.

( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:24, Reply)