I fancy playing Rushton's Second Adjustment Rules (version 3), this will allow for shunting during intermediate rounds.
As we have no official referee (allowable under Rushton's) anyone can interrupt the game if a rules transgression is noticed and if there is general agreement the game can be reset from the previous move.
I guess I'd better make an opening move.
Arnos Grove...
I'll take a crescent roll please.
You have rolled a five and a one.
That complicates things...
I'd just like to add the game is open to people seeking a myspleen invite (no promises).
Frink's move...
Um...
Rook to Tiny Knight
Knightsbridge?
<buzzer>
Manor House.
*ding*
(shrug)
brave move using the buzzer and bell as a set of Newcomb points.
Caledonian Road.
(Best new thread of the year!)
Hmmm... gotta think hard about this one... my move will be... Liverpool Stree... no wait that's an illegal diagonal move isn't it?
I'll go for... Goldhawk Road.
Ha beat that!
(I'll have to shoot off now as Samantha has pulled out some dusty old seven inchers that could all be made big again given sympathetic handling)
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Remember round one ends in seven moves so you will then be allowed to shunt.
Holburn.
I too had looking for some music, in my case to celebrate St Andrew's day.
Sven and myself sought out some traditional Scottish tunes.
He spread his twelve inches on the desk and we both enjoyed a Five Hand Reel fling finished off with vigorous aplomb.
We got so into the swing we drove home in the rain to Dainty Davie but were pulled over by the police.
I'm opening the car door and I'm Asking You Sargeant Where's Mine? prompted an approving smile from under the shiny wet helmet.
We were both banged up over night.
Pizza Wizza.
I suggest you familiarise yourself the basic gambits and plays by getting hold of the Rules and Origins book by N.F. Stovold or maybe looking up online.
A map of the London Underground also helps on planning your next move.
Pizza Wizza I think is an early form of table tennis, though who has a 78ft table these days?
Wozzle wozzle?
Engelbert Humperdinck.
If Humperdinck wants to join the game he has to play by the rules like everyone else.
It's a very simple game with simple rules (the complexity comes from the way the game is played) so while I would welcome a celebrity of the calibre of Engelbert or Christopher Biggins in this game, if they want to play they must play by the rules, specifically Rushton's Second Adjustment (version 3).
Speaking of Chris... at The Oval last week, Una Stubbs nearly fainted in horror when she saw Lionel Blair receive a full toss on the chest from Christopher Biggins.
But I digress... after that inspired Holborn move I've clearly got to raise my game. Erm...
Canning Town
Incidentally, it may interest you to know that Colin has recently returned from a tour of Mexico, where everyone was talking about his sheet music.
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Chancery Lane.
I was thinking maybe in the new year starting a game of Forum Charades, based on the television favorite Give Us A Clue.
Sadly Give Us A Clue hasn't been made recently, so we'll never know what team captain Lionel Blair would have done with modern films. Lionel used to get quite emotional, and no doubt after two minutes against the clock, The Talented Mr. Ripley would have put a lump in his throat.
I'm pretty sure 'Chancery Lane' is an illegal move under 'Rushton's Second Adjustment Rules (version 3)'.
I think your getting confused with the rules of 'Rushton's Second Adjustment Rules (version 2)' where 'Chancery Lane' is and has always been allowed. However I concede I may be wrong...
"We need a ruling Humph!"
By the way, it's come to my attention that some people are still unaware of the technical difference between an 'optician' and an 'optometrist'.
Well, an optician is someone who's qualified to examine the eyes and prescribe spectacle lenses, while an optometrist is someone who always looks on the bright side.
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You know, only the other day I was approached by a top television producer, who asked me why we on this thread, had so steadfastly spurned the garish, get-rich-quick world of television, in favour of, as he saw it, the antiquated and obviously limited medium of the discussion forums. Now to this man I have a clear message. I mislaid your telephone number on the bus - PLEASE GET IN TOUCH!!...
Humph faked his death a few years back but he does keep in touch via postcards.
I see we've been inundated by a card from a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales. She writes:
Dear Dr. Clare,
So pleased to hear that Tim Brooke-Taylor is back - without him the show was like Hamlet without the balcony scene.
So on with the game...
St. Paul's
West Kensington
btw It turns out Samantha had some difficulty obtaining the records this week, as relations with the gramophone library have become strained. The archivists in the vinyl section are concerned that her failure to return all the singles she's borrowed will have long term financial implications for the library. They say Samantha has had nearly all their 7 inchers out this month, and they warn that they could end up stuck in arrears.
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This sounds like a stuffy game to be played while eating crumpets and snorting snuff. ;)
darth_ender said:
This sounds like a stuffy game to be played while eating crumpets and snorting snuff. ;)
By "Crumpets" do you mean Samantha and Sven?
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Or maybe he meant trumpets which could be a reference to Barry Cryer's personal problem.
Anyway BANK!