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In memorium -
Lower Regents Street
Ah, the so-called ‘Endeavour’ opening gambit, after that detective series.
It has to be, then,
Oxford Circus.
Embankment
Cackles fiendishly…
South Kensington!
Smugly
Mornington Crescent.
No, that’s only a valid move if the footbridge is down.
Kilburn.
Damn. You’re right. It’s your turn, Bob.
Err, where were we. Ah.
Beckton Park
C’mon Brian, it’s your turn.
Assuming you allow the Hammersmith gambit,
Latimer Road
hah very clever!
It’s actually Sunday in the UK now, isn’t it? So I can make
Bermondsey.
heh. I’d like to see Henry get out of that.
Are you sure about Bermondsey? Even though it’s Sunday, it’s still in a 30-day month, in which case translational directives follow the Grenoble Protocol (as revised 1968) and horizontal orthogonality is not allowed south of the river (in the twon hall, if wet).
Definitely. Check the Jarlsberg addendum, 1972 (Chapter 6 subsection iib.) Note that it supersedes the more commonly referenced 1971 version.
Hmmm. I’m not sure, but I’kll give you the benefit of the doubt, just this once.
[thinks]
Fulham Broadway.
I think Brian and Bob have gone off to help Samantha load up their gel columns, so I’ll take two turns for them:
Blackfriars Bridge Road
Archway
Blackfriars Bridge Road to Archway involves an illegal u-turn past the Congestion Charging Zone, Henry, as well you know.
You must go on the half-hourly service to Kensington Olympia as forfeit.
Remember not to attempt to change at Bank.
Oh good. I can go now -
Camden Road
I see that the oligonucleotide of time has dribbled off the end of the gel of eternity, and that Samantha has asked me if I can help re-balance her centifuge. Looks like my forfeit will be more pleasant than I imagined.
Goodge Street.
Surely, bearing in mind it’s the 28th...
MORNINGTON CRESCENT!
Damn you, Brian. I was all set up for the Kensington Bypass.
[Flushed, rearranging clothing] ANyone for another? I’ll start.
Ealing Broadway.
Oh, an easy one.
Latimer Road.
I’ll see if I can tempt anyone to make the obvious mistake:
Perivale
Hang on Brian. It’s Bob’s go. That puts us in spoon until someone has a replacement bus via Blackfriars.
Surely you don’t have to play the same order each round? Bob next, no bus required.
Oh good.
Hang on, are we playing Philthrop’s Variations?
I can live with it.
Is that Ebenezer Philthrop or his nephew, Archibald?
Neither. It’s Spike ‘Knees’ Philthrop and his dancing Great Danes.
Er… where were we? (Samantha, don’t do that.)
I think it’s still Bob’s go.
Ah, sorry.
Whitechapel
Crinan Street
Elephant & Castle
Y’all have waaaaaaaay too much time on your hands…
(embankment)
Brooks! You’re out of turn, but I’ll make an exception for you. Back to Bob.
Oi Richard! Bob had a go since I last did.
Paddington
Thank you Brian – that was a tactical pause.
Westbourne Park
OK, I’m confused now. I shall have to ask Samantha to set me straight.
Richard, would Samantha be happy with Whipps Cross?
I’ll make sure that I ask her. When she’s free.
A friend of mine says that Samantha likes a Good Time but isn’t into S&M. Not even Naturist S&M.
Leather Lane
Henry, I don’t know about Leather Lane, but Crinan St (your previous turn) doesn’t have a station. So far as I know. Unless that parking meter outside is really a secret lift to the ministry of magic, via flu powder.
Mornington Crescent.
(Come on folks, that was too easy).
Richard, Richard… aren’t we forgetting you were playing on the last day of the month? Wasn’t that a little premature? You surely haven’t forgotten the Symes Diversion?
Oh you and your blasted horologically-challenged hemisphere. Did Australia even exist at the time Symes published that addendum?
I shall have to ask Maxine for a ruling.
Are you confusing Maxine with Samantha?
Oh dear – I thought Samantha might answer but she must be still sequencing that anteater genome.
I think May Day falls into the Ludlum Exemption category (Bourne Ultimatium, Senseless Diversion and Crazed Disjunction being the other three novels in the quartet, or quadrilogy as our modern film-makers would have it).
Therefore, we can have Crouch End, I believe.
But I didn’t play Crouch End…
OK, you have now called my bluff. I’ve never had a clue about how to play this game, or even what it is, since the start. Uncle!
Uncle? Tower Hill more like it!
I think under the six day rule this game has to be declared null and void.
Wikipedia notation?
I know I’m not exactly of Nepalese descent, but a liberal application of the Finkleberg Maxim (Ghurka Edition c. 1942)(NB: it’s still the work week in the northern hemisphere so it can be applied) would allow “any one of two non-lateral sideways moves north of Parsons Green or South of Willesden Junction.”