Mornington Crescent

[Loppylugs]

It's Friday evening and after a long working week, Lucy Lastic and I are going for a stroll together through Wimbledon Park.

 

[Purple Train]

Wimbledon Park? Really? I am told that Northwick Park is probably a better option, although I seem to recall that the last time I attempted to take a stroll through Wimbledon Park and environs, the only grass I saw was in the multitude of cesses! (Cesses... cessi... what's the plural, I wonder?)

 

[DerekC]

Now it's nearly midnight on the last day of the month, so I need a Zone 2 station that nobody will miss for a couple of hours,

Oval

 

[Ashley Hill]

I feel I need to use the Masonic move to counteract that. I shall stand on one leg,rub my belly and pat my head taking me to Covent Garden.

 

[Purple Train]

The Chance card comes into play, leaving me with no real choice. Fenchurch Street.

 

[DerekC]

I think you might have done better than that. Marks on the Roman wall near Moorgate suggest that a variation of 3 deg 40 sec of arc should be allowed for when entering the Z-angle of the glide path, taken from the card. The difference it makes is highly significant - I calculate it's actually Tower Gateway.

 

[Spamcan81]

I think you might have done better than that. Marks on the Roman wall near Moorgate suggest that a variation of 3 deg 40 sec of arc should be allowed for when entering the Z-angle of the glide path, taken from the card. The difference it makes is highly significant - I calculate it's actually Tower Gateway.

I think you may be out in your calculations. Whilst our word "mile" comes from the Latin "mile passus," the actual distances are not the same. Therefore by using the correct measurements, the location is Shadwell

 

[Ashley Hill]

But a country mile will take you to Preston Road.

 

[RDP]

Ad playing the North West card takes one to Lancaster Gate.

 

[Henffordd]

The offside rule applies here: Wembley Central

 

[Purple Train]

Taking Pearson's Station Moment Correlation Coefficient, and Wembley Central's figure of 1.5212..., then performing the customary multiplication by the square root of the sum of the platforms and entrances, with the cube root of the answer expressed as a ratio to the square root, square rooting the answer itself, and dividing that by the standard deviation of all the SMCC values for Underground stations, then adding 1, then subtracting 2, then adding 1 - the answer is the SMCC for the Forbidden Station after all, darn it, so I'll go for High Barnet.

 

[Spamcan81]

If you'd multiplied your answer by √-1 - as suggested by Crompton's Uncertainty Principle - you would have avoided the Forbidden Station and ended up at Gloucester Road.

 

[Purple Train]

Spamcan81 - thank you. This maths lark is too dark a magic for me. Stilton Cheesewright's eternally good novel I'm Sorry, I'll Write That Again stipulates that the next move should be Leicester Square - double points if there is a Labour rally in said location.

 

[DerekC]

I am afraid you have misread "I'm Sorry, I'll Write That Again" - you missed the double entendre at p75, line 23. For that I am going to send you to Turkey Street to wait for Christmas.

 

[Purple Train]

Double entendres really aren't my kind of thing - like cream, they're better single. Meagre though that defence is, I shall proffer it in the hope that it allows me enough time to get to Upney.

 

[Loppylugs]

Right, Saturday night. I'm off for a Chinese at Hu Flung Dung's in East Putney.

 

[RDP]

And with all that manure it's off to Kew Gardens.

 

[johnnychips]

Using the “Places sounding like letters” rule adjustment from 2012, I think I am entitled to move to Queenstown Road (Battersea).

 

[DerekC]

I had intended to use quantum computing to optimise my move this time, running the latest beta release. Unfortunately the virtual cat had escaped from the box, so the application wouldn't run and I am left using pencil and paper. Burnt Oak.

 

[AlterEgo]

Right, that is a tricky one. I can move only one place, thanks to Yalding's Rule. So I am forced to move to Colindale.

 

[RDP]

Making the grade lands one at Mill Hill East.

 

[Ostrich]

That is an extremely difficult one to follow. Praying for a miracle, I can only suggest Temple.

 

[Trackman]

I can now release the non-escalator rule for only four moves on a diagonal.. so to Hampstead.

 

[Purple Train]

And hence to  Stanmore.

 

[Ashley Hill]

And hence to  Stanmore.

Well I’m going to go all the way out east for this one and say Stratford.

 

[Spamcan81]

Currently sat in a queue awaiting entry to an airshow so being inspired by aviation, I will flit over to London City Airport.

 

[RDP]

Unfortunately that brings the City Lock into play landing one at City Thameslink.

 

[Purple Train]

And the Overground Defence allows me to play London Fields.

 

[Spamcan81]

The only riposte I can think of is Brixton

 

[sftfan1909]

as I happen to be playing from the delightful east finchley station, from which the platform seating happens to be delightfully tucked away behind two pillars and some windows, this permits me to play the geolocationary move of.... east finchley

(capital letters omitted for additional clarity?)