I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

DMC

Heads up for Clue fans.

Reading through next week's Radio Times, I see the antidote to panel games is back on BBC Radio 4 from next Monday (12th November) at 6:30pm.

In the meantime, so we won't forget to tune in, I might propose a game of Mornington Cresent, or maybe some classic lines from the show.

mike65

Well any mention of classic lines must include at least one painfully funny, I mean painful and funny, no I mean painful reference to the obscure yet legendary Sam Peckinpah Mexican drama "Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia" which was awaited with bait by the audience.

Mike.

RadioCity

One of the classic lines, from Willie Rushton's time was "complete the proverb" round...


Don't get your knickers....














in a car boot sale

DMC

HUMPH: But first following our appeal for more listener reaction I see we've received over seven hundred letters this week and they come from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales.

She writes in one, and in fact all the others:

Dear David Dickenson, I can sum up why the B.B.C. have your programme on TV every night in three words: cheap as chips. Yours et cetera, Mrs Trellis.

And there's a p.s.:

I can tell by your face that that stuff really does do exactly what it says on the tin!

The best letter from Mrs. Trellis is the last one off last series....

Dear Mrs McCartney, oh dear, what a mess, you must be kicking yourself.

mike65

Humph

"As ever, Samantha spent a few hours browsing among the shelves in the singles archive this week, and as a result of a rewarding poke in the country section, she was thrilled to discover a mint condition 7 inch Boxcar Willie.."

Mike.

DMC

And could you please welcome to the builders ball, Mr. and Mrs. two-sugars-in-mine-luv, and their daughter, Olive......

HUMPH: And Samantha has to nip out to take her german shepherd to the park to give him a stroke while he licks her face and pants....

mike65

Gardeners Question Time - The Movie or

Bring Me the Shed of Alfredo Garcia

Mike.

DMC

Or another one for Gardeners Film Club....

Bring me the hedge of Alfredo Garcia.....

DMC

Builders Film Club...... Bring me the sledge of Alfredo Garcia.....

Tomorrow, 6:30pm

grumpytrousers

DMC wrote: »

In the meantime, so we won't forget to tune in, I might propose a game of Mornington Cresent

Countess of Witchita's rules. Cleethorpes revision. No transitory perambulations on the District Line, okay with everybody?

mike65

Dang, I missed the first 9 minutes. I liked the Hairdressers ball "from the Emerald Isle the O'Tays and thier son - Tim O'tay"

Mike.

DMC

Indeed, not a vintage episode, but singing "Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Hitler" to the tune of "Yesterday Once More" by The Carpenters was inspired!

"And could you welcome Mr. and Mrs. Bennett-the-barber-down-the-road-only-charges-a-fiver, and their son Gordon!"

DublinWriter

Best Samantha quote:

"Well, Samantha decided to check out the facilities offered by the university. She tried out the gym then went into the showers to feel a little fresher".

Laugh? I nearly crashed the car.

DMC

grumpytrousers wrote: »

Countess of Witchita's rules. Cleethorpes revision. No transitory perambulations on the District Line, okay with everybody?

Good with me...

I'll start off with... Alperton

mike65

West Ruislip

Mike.

DublinWriter

mike65 wrote: »

West Ruislip

Good one - East Ruislip would have put you in Nid.

RadioCity

Hanger Lane

mike65

Acton Town

as its the second Tuesday of the month I'm allowed to reverse shuffle and vault without penalty.

Mike.

RadioCity

Good move.

Assuming we can transfer inversely:

Mile End.

Talliesin

If we're playing Rankin rules I go straight through MI6's secret entrance to Mornington Crescent.

If we aren't playing Rankin rules (and hence that move isn't allowed) I've given away my strategy, so I quit.

DMC

RadioCity wrote: »

Assuming we can transfer inversely:

Mile End.

You assume wrongly, "No transitory perambulations on the District Line"

So, allowing for a parabolic stratagem with 3 nudges, and south of the river is out of bounds....

Leyton.

RadioCity

Thats 3 well used nudges.

Turnpike Lane.

mike65

Ambitious use of the straddle/strile rule there.

Cockfosters - just cos it sounds funny.

Mie.

DMC

I heard a titter there, you're out!

Still... goood good move there.....

hmm... ooh... er... (can I?) hmmm... yes, yes, its possible...

I'll.... go for... yes, I will...

Dollis Hill.

RadioCity

Oh dear, oh dear oh dear.

You could easily have said Cannon Street using the "double reverse cross" method.

Ah Well.

Hounslow Central

DMC

Good man, you spotted my dilemma. But you have left a doozie of a chin scratcher there...

If I straddle the lateral shift, which is permissible under Wichita rules....

Latimer Road.

RadioCity

Are Bakerloo perpendicular moves permitted in Witchta Rules?

If so, Queen's Park.

mike65

Ahhh, using Mortimer’s Bakerloo Gambit.....Embankment (counts as treble). Sadly Elephant and Castle is out if Sarrf of the river is OOB.

Mike.

RadioCity

Is straddling optional in that case?

Monument.

DMC

You hit the buffers on the District line again, you can't straddle that I'm afraid....., and luckly that move is disallowed, otherwise it was knip.

So, I'm going to...

Pinner.

RadioCity

I'll do a oblique chromatic shunt (as it is neither diagonal OR parallel)

Wembley Central

Our man in Havana

Heading for Napopleans downfall, Waterloo

RadioCity

Turnpike Lane

Mental note to aviod transitory perambulations on the District Line

DMC

Grange Hill.

Our man in Havana

Barking (Hammersmith and City)

DMC

Only an amatuer would come up with that move. Its not even with Rule 4 applied in the poke holders position would anyone attempt that...

Hyde Park Corner.

RadioCity

Mill Hill East.

Our man in Havana

Arnos Grove.

RadioCity

Shepherd's Bush

DMC

Ah... South Harrow.

mike65

Piccadilly Line rules mean you are in Knip. Not entirely sure how best to continue play.

Mike.

RadioCity

Players can get out of knip by appropriate shunting or renormalising the level interchange vectors on at least two subsequent inter-quadrant or inter-zone shunts.

Any suggestions?

DMC

ONLY one way out of there......

Aldwych.

Our man in Havana

DMC wrote: »

ONLY one way out of there......

Aldwych.

Are garage and depot sidings in play?

DMC

There was no derogation made for shuntings, so I presume so.

RadioCity

DMC wrote: »

Aldwych.

Piccadilly Circus

mike65

Hmmm. Mortimer’s Bakerloo Gambit.

Embankment. Yes I'm playing it again.

Mike.

DMC

So long as we don't enter an infinite improbability loop, but we probably will....

Cricklewood.

RadioCity

Highgate

DMC

Chorleywood.

mike65

Wembley Park

Mike.