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    Mornington Crescent – why???

    I don't want to interrupt the players in their own thread, so I ask here...

    Mornington Crescent – why???
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I don't want to interrupt the players in their own thread, so I ask here...

    Mornington Crescent – why???
    Is that a new ploy? I'm not sure if a new thread is a legal move...

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Why not?

    Loving the MJ version, though the variations seem to be as complex as some of the moves!

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Is that a new ploy? I'm not sure if a new thread is a legal move...
    Reminds me of the Rushton Gambit.

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I don't want to interrupt the players in their own thread, so I ask here...

    Mornington Crescent – why???
    I'm sorry I haven't a clue

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    Why not?
    Why not?

    It's a pointless game with basically no rules.

    Where's the attraction?
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    Why not?

    It's a pointless game with basically no rules.

    Where's the attraction?
    Anarchy, presumably

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    It's a pointless game with basically no rules.
    It isnt true!! LMAO
    As Humphrey Lyttelton says:
    [the rulebook is maintained with] inimitable accuracy by the lovely Samantha, who sleeps with it under her pillow. As it now runs to 17 volumes, she is running out of pillows.

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    It's a pointless game with basically no rules.

    Where's the attraction?
    Yes it is.. but the Attraction is not in the playing as such. It's the people who don't realise "the rules" who come in half way and try to figure out what's going on

    When I first encountered Mornington Crescent on another forum I was directed to a website with the officially sanctioned tournament rules and they made my head hurt. Then I realised the game isn't really about getting to Mornington Crescent.. it's about seeing how long you can string poor noobs like I was along with the ride

    (This explanation is a valid move under the 1986 Monaco tournament rules as ratified by Woodcock, Ramble and Bradbury - Mornington Crescent Ruling committee 12th June 1985)

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    Yes it is.. but the Attraction is not in the playing as such. It's the people who don't realise "the rules" who come in half way and try to figure out what's going on

    [...] the game isn't really about getting to Mornington Crescent.. it's about seeing how long you can string poor noobs like I was along with the ride
    So it's about making yourself feel smart, and other people feel stupid?

    That sounds fun! Whee!
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    It is all in the way it is done Ducasi, For it is always played with Panache, great style and a lot of humour

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I don't want to interrupt the players in their own thread, so I ask here...

    Mornington Crescent – why???
    The Wikipedia entry is worth a read. I didn't realise that Mornington Crescent was not the original "in-joke" game, being predated by, among others, Star Trek, The Monkees, and The Goodies. Personally, among in-joke games, I always preferred Go Johnny Go Go Go. So much greater potential for violence.

    Also, by taking a Wikijourney from the article, I have become a convert to the Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

    The only aspect which interests me about the current Ceroc variant, is that no-one appears to have defined the winning move. For all that MC is an in-joke, it does have a genuine and commonly-known winning move...

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    So it's about making yourself feel smart, and other people feel stupid?

    That sounds fun! Whee!
    Oh good grief.

    Its just a bit of fun. Some of us were enjoying it, a bit of light relief from mundane work.

    If you didn't want to join in you didn't have to, instead of trying to ruin it for those who were.

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    The only aspect which interests me about the current Ceroc variant, is that no-one appears to have defined the winning move. For all that MC is an in-joke, it does have a genuine and commonly-known winning move...
    I noticed that too, I just thought DJ was keeping it a secret so that he could win!
    Last edited by Lynn; 11th-July-2007 at 11:35 AM.

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    The only aspect which interests me about the current Ceroc variant, is that no-one appears to have defined the winning move.
    Oops... - yes, that occurred to me this morning.

    Hmmm, anyone want to suggest a winning move?

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    So it's about making yourself feel smart, and other people feel stupid?

    That sounds fun! Whee!
    It's a joke.. no bitterness etc in it.. I laughed when I found out "the rules"

    Besides a comment like yours allows me to play the Moderators Cresent- Harperlink attack


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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    The Wikipedia entry is worth a read

    snip..
    Bother you got there before me Beo!

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by whitetiger1518 View Post
    Bother you got there before me Beo!
    I'm not Beo - my Geek powers pale before his majesty...

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by whitetiger1518 View Post
    Bother you got there before me Beo!


    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    I'm not Beo - my Geek powers pale before his majesty...
    Sometimes I'm so brilliant I even amaze myself

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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Oops... - yes, that occurred to me this morning.

    Hmmm, anyone want to suggest a winning move?
    How about the Accordion Comb Pull Crab? - always a winner in my book
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    Re: Mornington Crescent – why???

    Quote Originally Posted by Tiggerbabe View Post
    How about the Accordion Comb Pull Crab? - always a winner in my book
    Can't be - it was disallowed when I played it, under the 1987 AngeLau rules, even though no-one other than DJ takes them that seriously. And no variation ever disallows the winning move.

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