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Mind the Gap

 
  

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Regrettable Juvenilia
16:09 / 03.07.02
Like the rank amateur you so clearly are, Orr, you have failed to account for the possibility of someone being mad enough to do this:

Temple.

Stick that up your arse and smoke it.
 
 
grant
20:30 / 03.07.02
Ha! You've opened me for Royal Victoria!
One more station and I'll have the "V-delta" defense - so it's up to you all to decide if it's to be Perivale off Kit-Cat or Vauxhall (with one extra move) off Orr's position.
I'll graciously accept early resignations, or bribes with Cadbury's chocolate....
 
 
RiffRaff
05:07 / 04.07.02
I apologise for my gaffe - I keep forgetting that my friends and I tend to play a bit more... impolitely than most. Multiple Bulkheading, Suspect Packages...our house rules even allow for double-shunting across the diagonals without a velocity decrease! When I think of what Mrs. Trellis would say, I hang my head in shame.

However, even Mrs. Trellis couldn't deny my move to King's Cross... so how are you going to get the V-delta, grant, when Baker Street is blocked, and any move with a Beck's Quotient higher than three will put you in a Reverse Feng?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
09:01 / 04.07.02
But the Heron Quays Closure/Non-closure Dilemma (a seasonal variant) allows me to bypass you, Orr, and confound your expectations by bumping up to

Mile End
 
 
Rev. Orr
09:27 / 04.07.02
Fascinating. We must discuss your use of the reverse-line shunt one of these days, I'm sensing an interesting fusion of the Portobello and Stepney traditions. I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on the matter but things are getting a little tense in this corner so I shall saunter over to the relative safety of

Ruislip Gardens

and await the outcome of the RiffRaff/Flyboy/grant naked mudwrestle.

MC slash anyone?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:27 / 04.07.02
Well come on, then, you bunch of wusses...
 
 
RiffRaff
01:51 / 05.07.02
"Dollis Hill," purred Renaldo softly as he removed his shirt, exposing the manly chest that so much reminded me of that time playing Team MC in Belgium when we confounded the Braithwaites with a sudden Merricks Reversal. Just the thought of it had me dripping with lust. Suddenly, the door slammed open!
"Mildred! What are you doing! To think I would find you in bed with this swarthy young fellow, Pickering in the third quadrant!"
"Oh no!" I gasped, "It's the husband!"


Erm, anyway, Finsbury Park.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:19 / 05.07.02
All MC slash should take place in Pimlico, it is by far the dirtiest-sounding station.

'It was at Pimlico that Walthamstow began to thrust his throbbing, thrumming engine deep, deep into the willing, waiting gorge of Brixton. The doors opened and closed with an insistent rhythm... he gasped as his locomotive disgorged its passengers into that maw. But when he gazed into Brixton's cold grey eyes, he knew that he had reached the end of the line...'

Ahem.

Chancery Lane
 
 
grant
13:28 / 05.07.02
Far as I'm concerned, you're all just tooting bec.
Reverse Feng! Reverse Feng, my sweet, curvaceous Mudchute, starkly outlined against my tight khakis as I bend to retrieve a dropped bookmark from the train floor, accidentally nudging against the commuter behind me....
 
 
Rev. Orr
14:49 / 05.07.02
There was a wild, feral look in Perivale’s eyes as he raked a glance along my Prince Regent. I’d always known that he was one for the Gunnersbury but in all my dreams I never thought he’d indulge my Brent Cross fantasy. My Balham tightened, I was in for a right Epping tonight. “Be gentle,” I whimpered, “I’m a little Parsons Green at all this, I don’t want to be Bounds Green just yet.”

With a thrilling cruelty that sent a Pinner down my spine he fingered my Southgate roughly before thrusting his Wapping Oakwood Upney.

What, the game? Leyton
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:14 / 05.07.02
Wir koennten das Spiel jetzt auf Deutsch machen...

Wachturm
 
 
grant
16:12 / 05.07.02
Mit Vergnügen an meinen nether Regionen. Wird umgekehrtes shunting auf Diagonalen im Deutsche Spiel unter grünen Richtlinien erlaubt?

Kanada Waßer, öffnet mein Spiel bis bis Denkmal oder Theydonwald.
 
 
RiffRaff
20:23 / 05.07.02
Elephant & Castle. I don't go in for that fancy foreign rubbish.

(btw, Orr, that was fucking hilarious. " Thrusting his Wapping Oakwood Upney" indeed...)
 
 
grant
20:21 / 08.07.02
If no one else is going to come forward, then Monument, and I'll be at MC in three moves. Stop me if you can.
 
 
RiffRaff
13:33 / 09.07.02
Blast! Alright, you tricksy bastard, I'll counter your Harrison's Accelerator with the old Shadwell Reverse!

Tottenham Court Road!
 
 
Rev. Orr
14:03 / 09.07.02
Goodness, I haven't seen a Shadwell in nigh on twelve years. Bless. It fair brings a tear to my wrinkled, rheumy eyes. Forgive me, I'm more than a little rusty over the stippling levels on more advanced shunt practises, however, by my calculations...

Regents Park

and if Flyboy would favour us by joining the manoeuvre, we can see off this varlet in time for tiffin.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:54 / 16.07.02
Glad to see that my rather crafty piece of gamesmanship has paid off - I bet none of you thought of the time-delay Modified Dangler, did you? It is with great pleasure that I declare

Mornington Crescent

(sorry, but I hate to see a game abandoned)
 
 
grant
14:11 / 16.07.02
That's what I get for being gentlemanly, I suppose.

Anyone care for another match? The 1916/Covent Gardens Extension Hybrid rules? Maybe with cross-city transit via airports and national capitals?
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
21:21 / 16.07.02
Well, somebody has to make a start I suppose...

Fenchurch Street
 
 
nedrichards is confused
23:10 / 16.07.02
I think you've got to play an orthodox defence to that sort of opening:

Waterloo
 
 
grant
00:16 / 17.07.02
Hmm. Pimlico, I think.
Yes.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
02:11 / 17.07.02
i'm trying. i really am. i just don't get it. is the concept of the game that you just make up clever sounding nonsensical rules and everyone pretends to go along with it?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:13 / 17.07.02
More importantly, what the fuck is this elephant doing in my sitting room, and why is that Emperor fellow naked?

It's quite simple, Gypt. The aim of the game is to travel successfully through a coherent series of stations to Mornington Crescent, using tube connections, rail connections, and in certain versions of the game buses, air travel, short walks and the highly controversial Bank/Monument escalators. However, the moves you make will affect the success of the moves your opponent make, and vice versa, making the journey to Mornington Crescent more complex. The situation is further complicated by a lack of standardisation in the rules across the country and between nations, which have developed over the centuries in highly idiosyncratic ways.

Of course, the Herodias variation demands instead that you induce your opponents to pass through Marble Arch, ultimately making the winner's trip to Mornington Crescent a mere formality, but that is rarely played nowadays.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:41 / 17.07.02
No, no! You don't talk about Fight Club!
 
 
grant
13:22 / 17.07.02
That's three posts without a move. Can I make a move yet?
Oh, and Gypt, that link I put on the first page, that should explain everything. Well, it'll give you a good idea of different styles of play, and has an archive of a few good games.

It's much easier to get the hang of if you just watch a while.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
18:37 / 17.07.02
Hmm. Pimlico, I think.
Yes.


Well, I suppose that's one way of playing this game. Bless.

Holborn
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
09:32 / 18.07.02
Adopting Grant's suggestion, I employ the infamous Tube Strike Utterly Dismal Shafting, and take the 134, 10 and 27 to arrive at:

Hammersmith

after a mere three hours, to be faced with a fucking huge stack of horrible cold-calling to do. Think having nervous breakdown.
 
 
grant
12:57 / 18.07.02
Ha! Suckers.... Heathrow.
Could that be a change of venue I'm smelling?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:29 / 18.07.02
Depends which terminal, doesn't it?
 
 
grant
16:20 / 18.07.02
Shit! I was treating terminals like escalators, but it says here ("transferring" appendix, aforementioned Chalk Farm Green Book, Fitzmartin Clars) that I can't. Mea culpa. It makes sense - I remember a miserable time in the Dallas Airport, dropped off at Terminal B trying to make it to Terminal D with the tram system under repair. Breathless, chest pains, nearly missed my flight - which certainly wouldn't have happened if it was as simple as a Bank/Monument transfer.

So call it Heathrow 2 (1,2,3), then.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
17:32 / 18.07.02
Hmmmm.....interesting. Although I think - according to the 'Snapper Backlash' as demonstrated by Harry 'Snapper' Organs in the late forties - I can legally switch to

Oxford Circus

I'd like to see you get out of that one (umm...without using a double bypass loop through Circle or a reverse Victoria line shunt, that is). Ahem.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:28 / 18.07.02
Chairman Humph lived for the Great Game. His mastery of MC was non pareil over four continents and he was working on his strategy for the Asian Mornington Crescent Championships, to be held in Bangkok, later in the month. Airports are agonisingly dull places to be and therefore perfect for freeing the mind from mundane shackles, the better to invent fiendish new curves to throw in Premier League matches of MC. When he had been younger and his mind keener, before the BBC went to Hell with the departure of Tom Coates, the BBC canteen had been his MC War Room of choice but, alas, no longer.

The Costa Coffee outlet in Terminal 2 was buzzing but Humph was unaware of it as he ploughed manfully through a weighty, weighty tome he’d borrowed from Mordant (Jenkinson's unabridged Green guide to the Chalk Farm rules). He was up to page 144 and the blasphemous Brook-Taylor infringement of 1978 by the time concentration slackened and he began to woolgather.

A sudden shaft of sunlight through a far, high window struck his venerable octogenarian countenance, his bushy eyebrows shading those ancient eyes, as he glimpsed and registered his bookmark. It was a postcard from Mrs Trellis in North Wales, asking after Samantha, whose absence from Humph’s legendary show had been a sorrow to the listening nation.

The old man’s loins flushed with warmth as he saw his faithful protegée in his mind’s eye. She was now beyond his reach, perhaps forever, as she put all her efforts into the affair with Richard Whiteley and tried to break into hostessing on Countdown.

Humph’s heart lurched in his spindly, wheezing old chest as he realised it would take only one risky oyster canapé in some fashionable eaterie to lay La Vorderman low and Samantha’s big break would come. Then she could be irredeemably beyond his reach. Damn her ambitious bikini-clad failed super-model career pretensions!

Of a sudden, he knew he must straightway make a move to reclaim her. This time he would have the courage to declare himself and take her pneumatic body in his manly arms and press his suit imperiously. But for this damnable tube strike, he could go immediately to the Channel 4 studios and wrench his prize from raunchy Richard.

The sweet certainty of this moment evaporated in an instant, however, as his other startling young protegé appeared miraculously before him, breaking into Humph’s revelry. The older man’s pulse quickened as his gaze sharpened on muscular young Sven, resplendant before him, just back from visiting his family in Sweden.

Luscious Samantha’s cleavage and clever cuteness were, in that moment, forgotten as Humph’s eyes caressed the curve of Sven’s bubble butt and encompassed that broad Viking chest. The eager boy turned and Humph gasped, involuntarily, to discover the boy’s excitement to thus encounter his mentor evident under the fly of twisted jeans.

“Oh, curse my secret “invert” streak, this late-onset sexual deviance!” wailed Humph, inwardly. He owed it to Samantha to realise their enclenched destiny. He had an almightily alluring sexual imperative to fulfill with her! But, as the smiling Scandinavian love-puppet bent over Humph to kiss his cheek and muss his remaining strands of hair, the sexually charged octogenarian breathed in the aroma of Lime Shower Gel which Sven, customarily, exuded.

“Sir, I am trapped in dis place by de Tube Strike. But you look zö tired and stressed. Cöme wid me tö my Ikea-filled bachelör pad,” bubbled the eager Swedish puppy, “then ve can have a relaxing ströll ön de Heath. I vill make you förget your troubles…”

The die was cast! Sir Humph would go to the Heath with his Scandinavian ephebe and make Greek love to a Swede under a bush. Thailand and World Mornington Crescent Domination could wait! His brain feverishly reviewed his options, unable entirely to surrender the game.

To Mornington Crescent via the Heath? Hawking’s Quantum Dictum would allow a direct invocation of Hampstead but he had disallowed that when Willie Rushton tried it in 1984. Humph called on his wealth of inspired and subjunctive moves to navigate through the infinite possible routes.

“Terminal 2 to Hampstead?” He pondered, “Since Kit-Cat Club has already invoked the Tube Strike Utterly Dismal Shafting Amendment, the way is open for me to get a lift in Jeremy Sprake’s Lada (when he touches down shortly from Miami) all the way to Kensal Rise and then, when the 24 hour strike ends, it’s a short walk to the overland line. From Kensal Rise to Hampstead (and only two cunning moves from there to Mornington Crescent!)" Sir Humphrey chuckled gleefully, in anticipation of sexual and MC triumph, and slapped Sven on his steely butt.

He gathered up his belongings and followed his enticing prey to the exit. En route, he stopped at the internet terminal to check upon the progress of the game. “Bastards!” he cried, feebly. “Tezcatlipoca has stolen the game from me! Oxford bloody Circus!” Sven soothed his irascible master with tender but firm effleurage strokes of the upper back, under the tweed jacket. To himself Humph pronounced, “How that man’s game has improved. That move was poetry, audaciously ground breaking!”

Thoughts of Kensal Rise abandoned, the Heath still far away, Sven led Humph into the nearest Gents for a spot of mutual fellatio, which eased the older man’s frustration considerably. But, as Humph came to whimpering orgasm, masticated by thin Swedish lips, it was the thundering cheek and towering genius of Tezcatlipoca which excited him…

Somewhere entirely elsewhere, Samantha locked the fur-lined handcuffs round the Yorkshire sex monster's manly wrists and, ever hopeful, picked up the threshing flail, which was just where Carol had left it...
 
 
cusm
19:03 / 18.07.02
*shakes head*

Brits.
 
 
grant
20:17 / 18.07.02
The shortest distance between any two points is a straight line - even if it goes the other way round the world!

For myself, calls I a change of venue,, (allowable under the modern Chalk Farm Green) disembarking at Flughafen Berlin Tempelhofen, Platz der Luftbrücke.

Catch me if you can.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
11:59 / 19.07.02
Könnte es einfacher sein?

Mr ZoCher Changes Trains: North, East, North again to Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz (where he admires the sculpture of Mr Disco).

Wo jetzt, Spielkameraden?
 
  

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