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Post by pchallinor on Jan 5, 2011 23:57:26 GMT
Ha! A blatant attempt at eastbound wrangling to percolate the Central Line in three and leave your opponents double-boxed - a position from which virtually my only hope would have been to straight-leg it via Fulham Broadway in order to clear the points for a full-on Blackfriars Tickle, and we all know where that can lead.
I suspect traps within traps, however, so I must be subtle.
Willesden Green.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 6, 2011 13:11:24 GMT
"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little." -- Sir Francis Bacon Mansion House
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 6, 2011 23:02:07 GMT
Rotherhithe.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 7, 2011 21:52:40 GMT
Rotherhithe? Interesting.
Caledonian Road
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 7, 2011 23:58:41 GMT
Trying to shoehorn Maddeley's Coefficient in at this stage in the game, are we? Well, I'll put paid to that.
North Wembley.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 9, 2011 22:07:43 GMT
Not Maddeley's Coefficient. Madely's Conflict which takes me to
Mornington Crescent
with the slow but steady progress of a winebottle on a conveyorbelt
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 10, 2011 0:49:07 GMT
Rubbish. Madely's Conflict would have been fine if you'd played Ladbroke Grove instead of the first Caledonian Road, or played East Finchley for a back loop and double points change instead of the second Caledonian Road; but attempting Madely's Conflict while playing Caledonian Road twice is fundametally counter to the spirit of Rules 17, 17b, 19, 26, 47 to 93a inclusive, and possibly even the all-important Rule 153b(xviii), paragraph 27, which states, in part, that: a station may be played twice by the same player if and only if (1) the said station is played or replayed as a general conciliation manouevre or as part of a general conciliation manoeuvre without prejudice to previous stations having been played as part or all of a similar manouevre by the same or different players in response to shunting and/or boxing as a consequence of the manouevres (similar or otherwise) of similar or previous players; and (2) the first or second playing of the said station is played without conflict under the foregoing subsection of the foregoing paragraph with the second or first playing as applicable. Really, it could hardly be clearer.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 10, 2011 1:45:27 GMT
The same player did not play Caledonian Road twice thus there is no breach of r153b(xviii)p27l1. Clear as a bottle of Pinot Grig
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 10, 2011 2:16:05 GMT
Foiled! Curses. But since you've been pinching extra turns all through the game, I didn't think you'd notice if I slipped you one of mine.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 11, 2011 0:38:50 GMT
Hard lines, Mr C
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Post by pchallinor on Jul 19, 2011 22:17:34 GMT
Anybody up for a quick Wapping Rules bout?
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Post by gwinnieunplugged on Oct 16, 2011 18:25:32 GMT
What, have the 2012 Amendments been released from embargo?
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Post by pchallinor on Oct 16, 2011 21:34:15 GMT
Well, not exactly. Chapters I-LXXXIV have been taken under advisement by the European Council on Mornington Crescent, but it is feared that Slovakia may insist on a default to the last version but three of Brno Escarpment Variation, which would cause yet further wrangling and possibly necessitate a holding manoevre (perhaps even Cryer's Uptake) from Strasbourg. Three paragraphs and about seventy-three and a half per cent of the first fourteen appendices were rumoured to have been published on the internet, but it later emerged that the versions that got out were merely drafts and had not even been refined sufficiently to deal with instances of the Dollis Hill Loop after parallel shunts via Euston Square and/or the Circle Line in its clockwise aspect when King's Cross is wild. Obviously there wasn't much mileage to be got out of that, and in light of the continuing controversy over whether Mornington Crescent should be made an Olympic sport all further revisions have been kept under close wraps behind the pipes in the Ladies at Paddington.
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Post by gwinnie on Oct 31, 2011 0:09:54 GMT
Excellent.
Charing Cross.
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Post by pchallinor on Oct 31, 2011 14:42:17 GMT
Burnt Oak.
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Post by gwinnie on Oct 31, 2011 20:14:54 GMT
Hmm, can I hear the Ride of the Valkyries being played...?
Palmers Green
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Post by pchallinor on Oct 31, 2011 22:28:30 GMT
No, but if you keep on the way you're going you might soon hear the Funeral March.
Snaresbrook.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 1, 2011 0:51:32 GMT
Easily pegged
St Pauls
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 1, 2011 1:00:15 GMT
Pegged but far from tented. I foresee a touch of nip.
Hyde Park Corner.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 1, 2011 20:38:01 GMT
Uhuh.
Wembley
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 1, 2011 23:38:50 GMT
North Acton.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 2, 2011 9:13:26 GMT
Ah, I see. A Central Line swing coming up, eh?
North Finchley
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 2, 2011 15:25:17 GMT
A Central Line swing, with you blatantly building towards uncoupling at Willesden Junction - and after you opened with Charing Cross, to boot? I think not.
Stepney Green.
That'll heat things up on both flanks, and leave you open to a cadging manoeuvre in two, unless in desperation you attempt a modified Junkin's Parallel in the Hampstead area.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 2, 2011 22:17:09 GMT
Stepney Green from North Acton? Have to say, this is only the second time EVER that I have seen the Gideon's Double Dip executed with such deadly precision.
Piccadilly Circus
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 3, 2011 16:10:36 GMT
Just wait till Boris' driverless trains start coming in. Since Eric Pickles abolished the quango dealing with all aspects of the relationship between the Game and Transport for London, and thanks to an unfortunate data entry incident, the investigation of any possible impact has been left to three people and a yak in a tent outside St Ulap's Cathedral in Outer Mongolia. Bob Crow has even raised the possibility that players on driverless lines may be forced to play with their eyes closed, although the Government has dismissed the idea as being one which has the Prime Minister's fullest confidence and support. Anyway:
Chalk Farm.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 3, 2011 20:55:08 GMT
Careless, Mr C
South Kensington
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 3, 2011 21:07:29 GMT
Actually, it was rather subtle of me.
Mornington Crescent.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 3, 2011 23:27:05 GMT
Oy! I thought we were playing Wapping Rules, not Wapping Rules??
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 4, 2011 0:10:07 GMT
We were playing Wapping Rules, without any underlinings. I assumed you knew that, otherwise why play Piccadilly Circus when you did, rather than two moves previously when it might have led to a pretty decent tamper's crampon and possibly even foreclosed the Bakerloo? By playing it when you did, you conceded semi-nip and opened up the wild stations south of the river, thus allowing me a straight (if subtle) slip-through via Chalk Farm whether underlined or not.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 4, 2011 10:06:54 GMT
I have referred the matter to the Moderators.
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