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Post by gwinnie on Nov 5, 2011 9:50:15 GMT
Response from the Moderators:
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 5, 2011 15:40:31 GMT
This goes some way towards explaining the mysterious package which turned up on my doorstep this morning. It really is a rather nice trophy.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 5, 2011 23:18:29 GMT
I'm a professional.
I should have my own dressing room.
I should have a regular supply of 30 cl glass bottles of Perrier Citron.
I certainly should NOT have to put up with this level of disestablishmentarianism.
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 6, 2011 16:29:46 GMT
Oh, shut up and play. I'll try not to make it too difficult this time.
Knightsbridge.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 6, 2011 18:30:00 GMT
I shall not be silenced, I am the .. erm .. 50%
Earls Court
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 6, 2011 18:34:22 GMT
Euston Square.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 6, 2011 19:36:51 GMT
Horizontals are not allowed under the Wapping Rules, Mr C
Holloway Road
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 6, 2011 19:51:55 GMT
That hasn't stopped you diving for clampage at the first opportunity, I see. In any case, it wasn't a strict horizontal.
Now, clearly we can't have the Circle Line bollixed at this early stage, but I could do with a bit more frackage on the left flank, so I think I'll try a compound.
Maida Vale.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 6, 2011 23:00:36 GMT
Oh dear. My
Gloucester Road
locks the diagonal slipknot you have set up for yourself at Regent's Park. LOL!!
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 6, 2011 23:12:00 GMT
Unfortunately for you, it also wrangles the Central Line and places everything south of the river under Codger's Blowback; which means you'll have to be very delicate indeed to avoid a good mulching in two to five from my:
Sudbury Town.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 7, 2011 10:47:28 GMT
I would. If you had minded the gap at Bank. Instead you have now suffered a collapse of the interior bilaterals. I'd say you are well up Greek Street in the midst of a coaxial bypass. Ah well
Royal Oak
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 7, 2011 18:24:22 GMT
Moorgate.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 7, 2011 20:45:55 GMT
... which enables me to execute a traditional but rare Smythson's trifold,
Sloane Square
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 7, 2011 20:59:11 GMT
The reason they're rare, of course, is that it's almost impossible to maintain the lateral convulsions without bodging the apex, which is precisely what has happened here. There could be widgetry afoot, so:
Lambeth North.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 7, 2011 21:27:53 GMT
I'll thank you not to diss bodged apices. Vince Cable seems to thrive on them.
Tower Hill
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 7, 2011 21:38:27 GMT
West Brompton.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 7, 2011 22:16:29 GMT
Uhuh.
Angel
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 7, 2011 22:55:18 GMT
And there you are, as I predicted, considerably mulched.
The obvious course of action from here would be to go south of the river and decouple, but Vauxhall is a main-line station and hence doubly wild after that Sloane Square move, and the less said about Bermondsey the better. Kew Gardens is still under the blowback and Waterloo could easily end up being my Trafalgar even if London Bridge were not my downfall. Something a bit trickier is called for.
South Wimbledon.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 8, 2011 16:20:05 GMT
Oh dear, what a mess. You've gone and Jacksonned up your Hockney conjunctions there, my friend.
I shall avail myself of the Central Line reservation while you try and recover your bilaterals.
High Street Kensington
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 8, 2011 19:23:38 GMT
I shouldn't place too much hope in my bilaterals, if I were you. Many an opponent has come to grief that way, especially if they leave their waldrons sagging the way yours have been.
Goodge Street.
Where, in all fairness and sportsmanship, I must warn you to watch the elevator.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 8, 2011 21:50:31 GMT
Flams aweigh, Mr C
Totteridge and Whetstone
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 8, 2011 22:00:51 GMT
Are you quite sure? We did start with Knightsbridge, remember.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 8, 2011 23:39:26 GMT
We?
Caledonian Road
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 8, 2011 23:42:56 GMT
We. There were two of us playing.
Mornington Crescent.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 8, 2011 23:59:06 GMT
You started with Knightsbridge. I started with Earls Court. And it is not possible to achieve Mornington Crescent whilst one's bilaterals are flapping like the sails of a broken windmill in a force 3, see Stovold Classic Ed 1956, Ch VII par 56.
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 9, 2011 1:46:06 GMT
See the Harper Collins Classic Edition of 1990, with foreword by Rupert Murdoch, Chapter VII paragraph 56a, widely considered to be the cornerstone of the Wapping Rules, which specifically states that the state of a player's bilaterals need not be considered, authorised, remembered, recalled or subpoenaed if the move to Mornington Crescent is made after due escalation and with malice aforethought.
In order to avoid confusion in future, perhaps we ought to stick to Standard or Street Level rules. A certain subtlety may be lost, but it might give you a chance to look as if you're actually playing, rather than simply quoting at random from Transport for London's website and hoping for the best.
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 9, 2011 21:25:33 GMT
That edition in all its formats has been withdrawn by Harper Collins following confiscation of the app version on Charlie Brooks iPad by Scotland Yard in its investigation of illegal MC match-fixing. I suggest you rethink your move at #83
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 9, 2011 21:39:17 GMT
Oh, very well. From Caledonian Road:
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Right.
Mornington Crescent.
You'll notice that this time I executed a flawless free-form sinistral gusset, rather than the elevated shafting via Goodge Street which seems to have caused you some confusion.
Street level rules from now on, then?
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Post by gwinnie on Nov 9, 2011 22:41:06 GMT
Ah. I see. Well, Charlie. I have reported the matter to Interpol.
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Post by pchallinor on Nov 10, 2011 18:26:11 GMT
You must do as you please, of course; but I don't think Interpol's Mornington Crescent division have much time for sore losers either.
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