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Oh dear. Well, despite the obvious risk of Nidd-space expanding via the new Thames Tideway Tunnel to fill the whole of Kent, we must go to Island Gardens to monitor the ebb tide, just in case.
 
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I've been pondering for a few days now, wondering where we should move to next. It's a tricky one, but seeing as any moves to the north would risk us breaching rule 8 of the 1602 (revised edition) rulebook, I'm thinking the only safe place is Waterloo.

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I've been pondering for a few days now, wondering where we should move to next. It's a tricky one, but seeing as any moves to the north would risk us breaching rule 8 of the 1602 (revised edition) rulebook, I'm thinking the only safe place is Waterloo.

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I see your Waterloo and raise you Waterloo East
 

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Well I'll counter that with a quick walk to the other end of the platforms to Southwark
 

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Southwark, famous for an incident where "Shorty" Hargreaves failed to mind the gap. Fortunately he was hauled to safety by two other passengers but lost his trousers in the process. After changing trains at Baker Street (which raised a few eyebrows) he was later seen shopping for another pair of trousers at Shepherd's Bush Market.
 

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I am shocked to the safety boots. Rule 1(a)(iii) makes clear that trouserless travel is a fundamental breach for which the penalty is permanent and irrevocable banishment to the Waterloo & City Line. On which basis I have no choice but to go in dudgeon to deepest Bank.
 

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You raise a good move. I shall henceforth expand upon your turn through extended use of the 2003 (specifically, January-March) rulebook, which states, in rule 450, that any move to a 'drain' station must be immediately followed, with a maximum of a 15-day delay, by a move to Embankment, which I believe would fall within the regulations often used here.

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I am shocked to the safety boots. Rule 1(a)(iii) makes clear that trouserless travel is a fundamental breach for which the penalty is permanent and irrevocable banishment to the Waterloo & City Line. On which basis I have no choice but to go in dudgeon to deepest Bank.
Just for what it's worth I believe that Barry Cryer successfully challenged that rule, on the basis that the nurses always steal your trousers....
I don't think that invalidates your move however, so I will continue from Peter C's Embankment, and take a fast service to Petts Wood.
 

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Just for what it's worth I believe that Barry Cryer successfully challenged that rule, on the basis that the nurses always steal your trousers....
I don't think that invalidates your move however, so I will continue from Peter C's Embankment, and take a fast service to Petts Wood.
On a point of order, there is no evidence whatever that nurses were in any way involved in the initial detrousering. However I acknowledge the general validity of your thesis and having no particular wish to delay matters will move rapidly on to Mitcham Junction
 

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On a point of order, there is no evidence whatever that nurses were in any way involved in the initial detrousering. However I acknowledge the general validity of your thesis and having no particular wish to delay matters will move rapidly on to Mitcham Junction

An outrageous move! Gives me no alternative than to play a Fotheringay (District Line Rules - 1899 edition) and go to Earls Court.
 

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If only you had been a little more up to date! Fotheringay's District Line Rules were declared contrary to the Geneva Convention as early as 1932 and would certainly now be subject to challenge under the Human Rights Acts of 1998 and 2004 as well as the Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 and probably the Street Drainage Act 1974. So I am afraid we cannot linger at Earls Court. To avoid local vigilantes we must move quickly to Galleons Reach
 

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If you’re getting all legal, I raise the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 - Harlesden.
 

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Oak is a tree, so as treason was one of three crimes punishable with the death penelty after it was abolished for murder, and arson to her majesty's shipyards was another, we've found ourselves outside London at Dockyard in Plymouth
 

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Oak is a tree, so as treason was one of three crimes punishable with the death penelty after it was abolished for murder, and arson to her majesty's shipyards was another, we've found ourselves outside London at Dockyard in Plymouth

That's an admin error (too much pea and ham soup apparently) - we should actually be at Royal Albert.
 

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If only you had been a little more up to date! Fotheringay's District Line Rules were declared contrary to the Geneva Convention as early as 1932 and would certainly now be subject to challenge under the Human Rights Acts of 1998 and 2004 as well as the Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 and probably the Street Drainage Act 1974. So I am afraid we cannot linger at Earls Court. To avoid local vigilantes we must move quickly to Galleons Reach

1899 is up to date enough for me so I'm (of to) Barking.
 

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1899 is up to date enough for me so I'm (of to) Barking.
All this talk of woofers means I'll have to urgently buy new speakers, so a move to Osterley seems appropriate - unless it contravenes the Noise Emission Regulations 2001?
 

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All this talk of woofers means I'll have to urgently buy new speakers, so a move to Osterley seems appropriate - unless it contravenes the Noise Emission Regulations 2001?
I'm afraid it does. The only new speakers permitted (with silencers attached) are all accumulated at Hyde Park Corner.
 

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Surely the speakers are at the Marble Arch corner of Hyde Park, and therefore that is where we should be going?
 

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Shadwell's OK but we need to liven up the game. I am going to call Christmas!* Time for all players to convene at Turkey Street.

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under Fotheringhay's much-quoted 1899 rules, any player who believes in Santa Claus can make a Christmas call once per epic.
 
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Ah - the move direct! I sense a worthy opponent so some thought is needed. Stovold's Imperial Bypass move with sprinkles and cream on top should do it. Waddon Marsh. Now get out of that!!
 

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Ah - the move direct! I sense a worthy opponent so some thought is needed. Stovold's Imperial Bypass move with sprinkles and cream on top should do it. Waddon Marsh. Now get out of that!!
Hmm. Time to consult a little known work by Capt. W E Johns, Biggles Does the Underground and see what my aviator hero would do....................................
Said consultation advises me to turn my calendar back to 1935 and materialise at Bond Street.
 

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That's superficially a very clever move, but a biplane would have trouble in the deep tube. I counter quickly with something less pretentious. Lewisham
 

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That's superficially a very clever move, but a biplane would have trouble in the deep tube. I counter quickly with something less pretentious. Lewisham

Biggles of course did the Underground by train so your Lewisham move is not as clever as you think. This leaves you wide open the the Hainault Loop turnback and I deposit myself at Hainault itself.
 
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