Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
Alfie? And anyone else who knows the rules....
Shall I start?
Trafalgar Square.
Are we playing the Reverse Shaftsbury Avenue rules?
well I guess either way it doesn't matter for the first 3 rounds.
Knightsbridge
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
Southwark
Ahahaha, amateur.
Regents park
Posted by
cal_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
let's step this up a little...
Bermondsey
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
Kilburn Park
Better?
Oh I see where you are going with that one.
Hyde Park Corner
Posted by
cal_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
ha! you left yourself open for this:
Alperton
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
Gimme a break, I'm new:
Stratford
Sul, Sul, Sul.
This is reverse shaftsbury remember?
You've given me a clear path to:
Baker Street
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
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
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
Aussie play - typical. You left your laterals totally exposed.
Elephant
and Castle.
I have to take my hat off to that one. Beautiful play.
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
I may be old and slow, but there's no substitute for experience.
Posted by
cal_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
i think you'll notice that croxley is now in knip - an awesome move
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
/me blushes
I wondered who was going to spot that.
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
Fuck! I'm so out of my league. Ok. Who's next?
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
Don't give up so easily; just take your time and make your move.
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
Oh god. Ok, I think I've got one:
Seven Sisters
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
See!!11 You just need confidence in your own abilities.
Lemme seeee.........
Pimlico
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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, around 6th January 2006:
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, around 6th January 2006:
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
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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, around 6th January 2006:
Isn't 'mentor' icelandic for 'anally violate'? Just asking.
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
/me points you at the 'alternate definitions' thread
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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, around 6th January 2006:
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.
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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, around 6th January 2006:
Blimey. Where did he come from?
Osterley (that should head off any slide toward Hampstead Heath)
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
I said play through, not follow through. They're entirely different.
Anyway, Chalfont & Latimer.
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
Epping
And an end of line bonus for me. Thank you very much. :D
Four words.
Harrow. On. The. Hill.
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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, around 6th January 2006:
I think I will nicely knock the momentum out of Warhead's (effective admittedly) line reversal with the following:
Crystal Palace
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
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.
technically, frankie just won the game he was seeking to diss, didn't he?
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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.)
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
Then again, it's no worse than the cliquery we apply when MJ fans etc. turn up here.
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
hahahahahahaaaaaaaa
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_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
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
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
frankie == jeff == jeffica luff
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
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)
Posted by
WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
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.
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 ;)
Posted by
WarHead, around 7th January 2006:
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!!!!!
Posted by
WarHead, around 7th January 2006:
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...
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.
Posted by
Grim..., around 7th January 2006:
It's true.
I got bored.
Posted by
Grim..., around 7th January 2006:
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 =]
Posted by
Grim..., around 7th January 2006:
But the backward smilies were bad. Bad bad bad.
Hi SFG! I've missed you! (;
Posted by
Brock, around 7th January 2006:
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. ;)
Posted by
WarHead, around 8th January 2006:
So are we playing round 2, or has the novelty worn off?
I would love to play but can't. Sorry. :)
ACE!
Cal will probably kiss you twice on both cheeks for something like this :D
i have FOUR cheeks.
and qualms.
grave qualms.
Posted by
Grim..., around 13th February 2006:
I found the
solution...
"Harrow and Wealdstone"?
it'll never catch on.
