Alfie? And anyone else who knows the rules....
Shall I start?
Trafalgar Square.
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
Are we playing the Reverse Shaftsbury Avenue rules?
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
well I guess either way it doesn't matter for the first 3 rounds.
Knightsbridge
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
Southwark
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
Ahahaha, amateur.
Regents park
Posted by
cal, 6 years ago:
let's step this up a little...
Bermondsey
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
Ooooooooh, your go Sul.
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
Kilburn Park
Better?
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
Oh I see where you are going with that one.
Hyde Park Corner
Posted by
cal, 6 years ago:
ha! you left yourself open for this:
Alperton
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
Didn't spot that one.
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
Gimme a break, I'm new:
Stratford
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
Sul, Sul, Sul.
This is reverse shaftsbury remember?
You've given me a clear path to:
Baker Street
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
Dammit!
I'd like to play the Hoffenbach with a transom slide down to ...
Wimbledon Park!
But I always fumble that one so I'll stick to a simpler laydown:
Croxley
Aussie play - typical. You left your laterals totally exposed.
Elephant
and Castle.
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
I have to take my hat off to that one. Beautiful play.
I may be old and slow, but there's no substitute for experience.
Posted by
cal, 6 years ago:
i think you'll notice that croxley is now in knip - an awesome move
/me blushes
I wondered who was going to spot that.
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
Fuck! I'm so out of my league. Ok. Who's next?
Don't give up so easily; just take your time and make your move.
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
Oh god. Ok, I think I've got one:
Seven Sisters
See!!11 You just need confidence in your own abilities.
Lemme seeee.........
Pimlico
Damn, I'm going to incur a congestion charge. This is what happens when you've never actally lived down The Smoke.
Posted by
Brock, 6 years ago:
Hmmmm. I was half way through consulting the Pimlico almanac regulations from the regional championships, but I see no way to get to Marble Arch from there and that's the only move, perversely, that I can follow, so I'll bow out.
Fuckers.
Posted by
Brock, 6 years ago:
Wait, wait, I've got it. Assuming that a bipolar extraction is valid (Croxley is in the knip, after all), then I move thus:
Gallions Reach.
(Man, I am rusty)
Am I still in knip yet?
bugger
i *knew* i should have gone the transom
While you dither about, I'll go Old Kent Road, which is, you'll note, a double score when approached from the North.
Just think yourselves lucky I didn't have any hotels on there.
Rotherhithe
a rather nice escape, even if i do say so myself. 3 points for the trajectory, and a double indemnity.
i almost feel sorry for the follow-on
Hang on, 18th move coming up, so it's time to pick the teams.
I'll take Sul as I feel it would be in both our interests for me to mentor him.
Posted by
Brock, 6 years ago:
Isn't 'mentor' icelandic for 'anally violate'? Just asking.
/me points you at the 'alternate definitions' thread
I thought mentor was a mad robot that transforms into some sort of vehicle that killed its occupants, but that's not important now.
Are we choosing teams or playing through?
Posted by
Brock, 6 years ago:
It looks very much like a follow through to me. After all, Chatsbury avenue precedent appears to be being played, and we were initially bounded by the reverse Shaftsbury Avenue rules, so I imagine that teams are not strictly legal.
You cheating bastard.
oh, well played! i didn't see that one coming.
I was invoking the 18th Move Rule. Read your copy of Willesden, wombat.
well, it's all happening here now, sports fans. warhead's wombat stumps brock's cheating bastard, leaving everything to play for.
Westbourne Park.
So there.
Posted by
Brock, 6 years ago:
Blimey. Where did he come from?
Osterley (that should head off any slide toward Hampstead Heath)
I said play through, not follow through. They're entirely different.
Anyway, Chalfont & Latimer.
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
Epping
And an end of line bonus for me. Thank you very much. :D
Four words.
Harrow. On. The. Hill.
Badly Drawn Sul (the cat in the hat) makes a remarkable comeback.
But I'm gonna bounce of that end of line with Theydon Bois.
Posted by
Brock, 6 years ago:
I think I will nicely knock the momentum out of Warhead's (effective admittedly) line reversal with the following:
Crystal Palace
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
Wow. Brock's really laid down a stumper there.
Unfortunately, this tradition appeals to the cliquery of some insecure people in a very obnoxious way. Lacking the comic talent of a Willie Rushton or Graeme Garden, for them the main appeal of the game becomes the feeling of superiority over those who are seeing the game played for the first time, and the warm feeling of being in the clique that knows the secret. For them, Mornington Crescent is no more than a socially acceptable form of trolling.
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
lol
technically, frankie just won the game he was seeking to diss, didn't he?
What he says is all true, but it doesn't stop me enjoying the cut and thrust of the game with those in the clique.
(I often wondered whether frankie was a male or ... not.)
Then again, it's no worse than the cliquery we apply when MJ fans etc. turn up here.
Posted by
Miki, 6 years ago:
frankie is a she
and what she said
whoooosh to the dutch girl, I have never been so confused by an iamcal thread, and that includes all of doc moc's posts.
I must admit I still read all the replies (which is more then I can say about other threads).
well done people
I'm just bitter because I didn't know what you were all on about and I wasted at least 3 minutes trying to figure it out..
I thought you all knew I'm a she?
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
I knew!!!!1 And I was having fun before you spoiled it. You'll pay for this. Mark my words.
frankie can go to hollywood
Hollywood? So, you're trying the old 'Hollywood Gambit' are you? We'll see about that.
Specially for the Dutch Girl .... Holland Park.
Posted by
cal, 6 years ago:
frankie == jeff == jeffica luff
Posted by
Sul, 6 years ago:
And she fucking thinks that fucking Mario's fucking is whack.
more-frequent postage required to keep info in cache -- this
was known but was swapped out due to lack of need and of brain cells surplus to drinking requirements
errr... not sure if that works better applied to cal's post (intended) or sul's (lagged)
This is subterfuge and diversion because you are all incapable of playing against my superior intellect.
And as Frankie is a Pimlico girrrrrl, she should be more than capable of holding her own (or preferably mine).
so are you proposing that frankwumba did NOT in fact win?
Howzit Jeff! Nice post. How's the new job going?
firstly cal, shhhhhhhh its a secret.. a really rubbish secret
secondly warhead, ewe..
and thirdly, erm very well thank you, i'm one step away from an ironic shoreditch haircut.. plus the news that my old company is going down the toilet was a nice bonus for christmas.
god i love how i can make any subject thread all about me, i think for that alone, i should win the game..
Frankie = Nov = November Eclectica = Rosie = Jess
We all knew that, right?
Hold it! Hold it!
I just woke up, and it's 2 in the afternoon. How? Why?
Damn, am I too late to post a potentially game-winning
Turnham Green.
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
Well based on the fact that the game is called Mornington Cresent, I very much doubt that Turnham Green could be considered potentially game winning ;)
It may not be the move that wins the game, but it is insired position play. It could easily lead to a winner on the next mo ..... oh, well done Salti.
yes, people, that's three, count'em, THREE lucky winners we've had so far: frankwumbov, (get)alife, and now yours unruly. it's Everyone's-A-Winner Day on iamcal!! everybody! step right up and take your turn to win WIN
WINNNNN!!!!!
Didn't arsebiscuits wim the 3:30 at Kempton Park?
Bryanston! /shouts (will I be lynched for asking how to play?)
Oops. This is reply no. 9666 beastie!
No, SFG turned out to be Grim...
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
I'm still crying over the (get)alife line
:''(
awww, there there, don't cry little alife. here, have mine.
Yep, SFG is Grimothy. Truly. No lies. Ask him next time he's on. Wait, i'll try and find the thread for you. Hang on.
www.iamcal.com/discuss/topi... there you go, that was where he unmasked himself.
But I love the way Brock dropped in his look-at-me "there have been separate discussions about quite how french you aren't, too." comment and forgot that a couple of those 'separate discussions' were with me =]
But the backward smilies were bad. Bad bad bad.
Hi SFG! I've missed you! (;
Posted by
Brock, 6 years ago:
That wasn't a "look at me" thing, that was a "take a fucking look at yourself, you freak. Who the fuck would pretend to be, of all things,
french..."
I think someone pretending to be South African. ;)
So are we playing round 2, or has the novelty worn off?
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
worn off.
I would love to play but can't. Sorry. :)
Posted by
Alfie, 6 years ago:
ACE!
Cal will probably kiss you twice on both cheeks for something like this :D
i have FOUR cheeks.
and qualms.
grave qualms.
"Harrow and Wealdstone"?
it'll never catch on.
