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Title: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Clare on June 26, 2015, 06:29:49 AM
I'll start:

Euston
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Chestertonian on June 26, 2015, 06:58:04 AM
im confused

what is amorningtinb crescent
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: LausTibiChriste on June 26, 2015, 07:32:50 AM
I thought it said morning crescent and had something to do about them muzzie folk
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: red solo cup on June 26, 2015, 01:52:56 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 26, 2015, 06:58:04 AM
im confused

what is amorningtinb crescent
Sorry but you don't have a clue.

Uxbridge.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Gardener on June 26, 2015, 02:18:22 PM
Hmm... first word starts with E but 2nd letter is U; second word starts with U and second letter is X. I'm guessing the next word must start with either X or B (3rd letter in 2nd word).

I'll try both to see if I can draw out the pattern:

Xenia, OH.

Bradenton, FL
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Clare on June 26, 2015, 02:35:46 PM
Marble Arch
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Basilios on June 26, 2015, 03:33:51 PM
I can't play it since the legend himself died a few years ago  :'( Humph made the show.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 26, 2015, 03:52:23 PM
Quote from: Basilios on June 26, 2015, 03:33:51 PM
I can't play it since the legend himself died a few years ago  :'( Humph made the show.

I see you are a Crescentvacantist, Basilios. I don't share you scruples, so.....

Leicester Square (on the diagonal).
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: queen.saints on June 26, 2015, 04:53:26 PM

Clever move, but CHARING CROSS

You're hardly an Ignardian.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 01:42:12 AM
I know it's not really my turn but, as there aren't many people around at the moment, I'm invoking Trubshawe's 4th Convention:

Southfields
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Clare on June 27, 2015, 04:46:40 AM
Hmmm. I don't think you thought that through, ludi...

Green Park
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Jayne on June 27, 2015, 05:14:17 AM
After so many two word answers, there needs to be a one word. I think it better start with a letter from the second half of the alphabet, as a defensive strategy.

Waterloo
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 12:24:04 PM
I reckon you're in scrope, Jayne. I don't see how you're going to get out of that.

A bit unconventional, but...

Barking
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Chestertonian on June 27, 2015, 12:39:11 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on June 26, 2015, 01:52:56 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 26, 2015, 06:58:04 AM
im confused

what is amorningtinb crescent
Sorry but you don't have a clue.

Uxbridge.

   hence why i was asking
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Jayne on June 27, 2015, 12:49:03 PM
Quote from: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 12:24:04 PM
I reckon you're in scrope, Jayne. I don't see how you're going to get out of that.

A bit unconventional, but...

Barking

I am too inexperienced to handle this level of play.  Oh well, here goes nothing:

Reading
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 01:22:33 PM
Quote from: Jayne on June 27, 2015, 12:49:03 PM
Quote from: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 12:24:04 PM
I reckon you're in scrope, Jayne. I don't see how you're going to get out of that.

A bit unconventional, but...

Barking

I am too inexperienced to handle this level of play.  Oh well, here goes nothing:

Reading

I see you've gone for the Great Western Gambit. A bit dodgy, if you ask me. I suppose it was allowed by a ruling at the 1884 Oslo World Championship, although I've never been happy with that decision.

Anyway, I have to await my turn.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Jayne on June 27, 2015, 01:33:18 PM
Are you sure it was 1884?  I thought it was in 1890.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 01:41:26 PM
Quote from: Jayne on June 27, 2015, 01:33:18 PM
Are you sure it was 1884?  I thought it was in 1890.

It depends which calendar you follow. I've never accepted the Julian, let alone the Gregorian.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Clare on June 27, 2015, 02:39:02 PM
I think I need to have recourse to the Heimlich Manoeuvre here. I gather it's permitted in situations like this.

Aldgate East
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Chestertonian on June 27, 2015, 03:02:08 PM
you people are strange
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 03:52:27 PM
Quote from: Clare on June 27, 2015, 02:39:02 PM
I think I need to have recourse to the Heimlich Manoeuvre here. I gather it's permitted in situations like this.

Aldgate East

Boring, I know, but...

Theydon Bois
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Jayne on June 27, 2015, 04:03:53 PM
Quote from: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 03:52:27 PM
Boring, I know, but...

Theydon Bois

Yes!!  According to the north-eastern convention, I can now use a two syllable word that starts with the last letter of the previous play:

Stanmore
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: red solo cup on June 27, 2015, 04:24:08 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 27, 2015, 12:39:11 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on June 26, 2015, 01:52:56 PM
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 26, 2015, 06:58:04 AM
im confused

what is amorningtinb crescent
Sorry but you don't have a clue.

Uxbridge.

   hence why i was asking
I wasn't putting you down dude. I was referencing the name of the show, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Clare on June 29, 2015, 10:13:38 AM
Quote from: Jayne on June 27, 2015, 04:03:53 PM
Quote from: ludimagister on June 27, 2015, 03:52:27 PM
Boring, I know, but...

Theydon Bois

Yes!!  According to the north-eastern convention, I can now use a two syllable word that starts with the last letter of the previous play:

Stanmore
Appealing to the Fairport Convention, I think the only sensible move now is:

Edgware
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Jayne on June 29, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Clare on June 29, 2015, 10:13:38 AM
Appealing to the Fairport Convention, I think the only sensible move now is:

Edgware

Using the Cambridge Chiasmus rule:

Shoreditch

eta:  And this gets me out of scrope.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: MundaCorMeum on June 29, 2015, 11:11:29 AM
Quote from: Jayne on June 29, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Clare on June 29, 2015, 10:13:38 AM
Appealing to the Fairport Convention, I think the only sensible move now is:

Edgware

Using the Cambridge Chiasmus rule:

Shoreditch

Finally opening up the playing field a little

Great Portland Street

Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Gardener on June 29, 2015, 12:09:12 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on June 29, 2015, 11:11:29 AM
Quote from: Jayne on June 29, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Clare on June 29, 2015, 10:13:38 AM
Appealing to the Fairport Convention, I think the only sensible move now is:

Edgware

Using the Cambridge Chiasmus rule:

Shoreditch

Finally opening up the playing field a little

Great Portland Street

Utilizing the acronym-convention rule in conjunction (in this case, GPS) with the inverse-coastal sister-city allowance, I give you

43.6667° N, 70.2667° W (Portland, ME)

It'll be interesting if someone goes with "Gematria Gamut" and adds those numbers up to arrive at the looping alphabet function for the first letter of the next play. Last time I saw that, 3 players fell off the board IMMEDIATELY.

Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 29, 2015, 01:13:18 PM
Quote from: Gardener on June 29, 2015, 12:09:12 PM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on June 29, 2015, 11:11:29 AM
Quote from: Jayne on June 29, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Clare on June 29, 2015, 10:13:38 AM
Appealing to the Fairport Convention, I think the only sensible move now is:

Edgware

Using the Cambridge Chiasmus rule:

Shoreditch

Finally opening up the playing field a little

Great Portland Street

Utilizing the acronym-convention rule in conjunction (in this case, GPS) with the inverse-coastal sister-city allowance, I give you

43.6667° N, 70.2667° W (Portland, ME)

It'll be interesting if someone goes with "Gematria Gamut" and adds those numbers up to arrive at the looping alphabet function for the first letter of the next play. Last time I saw that, 3 players fell off the board IMMEDIATELY.

Interesting idea, Gardener, but that would only work if someone were in loon and there were a full moon.

I'm going to go with...

Wimbledon.

And I get a bonus for topicality!
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Jayne on June 29, 2015, 01:25:05 PM
It's close enough to the end of the month that I can follow up with a morphophonemic transformation:

Wapping

This gives me a fledger, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 29, 2015, 01:47:33 PM
According to the Gutteridge ruling it does.

Nice play, Jayne. You'll be playing at Commonwealth level before long.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Gardener on June 29, 2015, 03:20:45 PM
Gonna keep it simple with a low level Colonial play, utilizing the native dialect for a "suffix retention".
WappING > BeijING

Beijing.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Arun on June 29, 2015, 06:08:33 PM
this game makes less f@#$ing sense than Numberwang
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Clare on June 30, 2015, 02:21:39 AM
This might seem a little unorthodox, but it is permitted under the Geneva Convention:

Alpha Centauri
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Jayne on June 30, 2015, 06:06:44 AM
A little unorthodox? I am shocked!  I am going to do something extra conventional just to calm things down:

Snaresbrook
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Chestertonian on June 30, 2015, 11:30:56 AM
Quote from: Arun on June 29, 2015, 06:08:33 PM
this game makes less f@#$ing sense than Numberwang

yup

Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: ludimagister on June 30, 2015, 05:02:50 PM
Quote from: Jayne on June 30, 2015, 06:06:44 AM
A little unorthodox? I am shocked!  I am going to do something extra conventional just to calm things down:

Snaresbrook

I agree with you entirely, Jayne. I, too, am shocked by the outlandish and unsporting play of certain parties here. I'm glad you tried to bring things back within the ambit of the M25.

Your last move is not permitted, however. You can't get from Alpha Centauri to Snaresbrook without going the wrong direction down a one-way street. If you don't believe me, check your A-to-Z.
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Arun on June 30, 2015, 05:12:22 PM
Quote from: ludimagister on June 30, 2015, 05:02:50 PM
Quote from: Jayne on June 30, 2015, 06:06:44 AM
A little unorthodox? I am shocked!  I am going to do something extra conventional just to calm things down:

Snaresbrook

I agree with you entirely, Jayne. I, too, am shocked by the outlandish and unsporting play of certain parties here. I'm glad you tried to bring things back within the ambit of the M25.

Your last move is not permitted, however. You can't get from Alpha Centauri to Snaresbrook without going the wrong direction down a one-way street. If you don't believe me, check your A-to-Z.

I think can rectify that using a play drawn from the 1966 Unviersity of Calgary team's 43-Man Squamish playbook, modified with arpeggiated xavian scale widdlings;

Barsoom
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Clare on July 01, 2015, 02:25:24 AM
I think a very short journey across the road to

Malacandra

shouldn't be too outré for fellow players' sensibilities. It is not unprecedented (cf. Denzinger 2341).
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: PatienceAndLove on July 13, 2015, 09:39:32 AM
This seems like something they'd play in "Hitchhiker's Guide" or in a sketch by Monty Python
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: PatienceAndLove on July 13, 2015, 09:40:02 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_%28game%29
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Daniel on July 14, 2015, 09:57:27 AM
This whole game seems like some document that I and some friends composed back in high school.  So I'll just quote from that document...

basically george washington was a hippy that was all like "Yo king george, you stole my name!!!! i'm gonna protest!!!!!" and he came to

america

and became president because he wanted to be the king but america was poor because the only americans back then were hippies and the pirates were beastly and anyways, king george pwned george washington during the revolutionatry war
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: PatienceAndLove on July 14, 2015, 01:03:33 PM
Now that we are on the superior continent, let's travel to the Great White North

Lionel-Groulx
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: LausTibiChriste on July 14, 2015, 02:44:19 PM
well you said superior continent, so


sweden?
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: PatienceAndLove on July 14, 2015, 03:57:24 PM
St Andrew
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: Arun on July 14, 2015, 04:31:40 PM
Quote from: PatienceAndLove on July 13, 2015, 09:40:02 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_%28game%29

i think that actually is an invalid move, your not supposed to let people in on the joke.

ahem, i mean, under section 3-HK751 of the COINTELPRO program that's an illegal move. i'll invoke the barclay-swevenson clause and declare your next three turns null and void. a fitting pairing for the barclay-swevenson, i'll employ the double-hubble-bubble-trouble maneuvre as demonstrated by abercrombie and fitch (though in a much more effeminate fashion than the way i'm using it right now) which with the cronium inverse schwartzenheimer magnified by the current price of fish in china brings us to:

F*cking, Austria (yes that's a real placename)
Title: Re: Mornington Crescent
Post by: PatienceAndLove on July 14, 2015, 11:25:38 PM
Does that make the move I made, prior to your post, invalid?

If so, I object per the Equestria rules of 1746