Yes, Goodge Street's the one. Otherwise it would have to have been knip or MC in two This way, however... :-k Let's see what we can do with Moorgate [spoiler]Goodge Stret was indeed the only one with which Heid culd avoid knip or have me move to Mornington Crescent directly. The move i called the st...
Philip wrote:I agree, it does flummox my 'MC in 2', but events (and beer) have conspired against me.
Yeah, that happens - I thought I had sticks at BAUT in Deep Knip once and forgot about a new stratagem first employed in the 2005 World Championship - he slammed home to MC n one move. Man, that hurt a lot.
Earls Court . [spoiler]I'm trying to tempt the other players into using the Circle Line, without leaving them a clear opening.[/spoiler] Now that little trick was cheap , Heid, just cheap [spoiler]This is about the oldest trick in the book - you use the Circle Line if and only if you have a clear o...
I will say Mornington Crescent in 2. Not yet, man, not yet: That would have been possible (I know, the old wag the dog twice stratagem) only with Heid still in rucksack, which I ended with my move to Oval (by Second line change Commandment), and there is that free line change after it - never seen ...
Hmmm, 59 %, and I've lived here all my life.
Probably because they confuse being German with following certain Bavarian folklore. But doesn't everyone...?
Funny you say that about Arneb's relative brightness. I would have guessed it is far less than 2.5 It must be because I am in Germany and observing from 49° N, where anything at delta -20 ° is bound to look dim because of the proximity of the horizon. Now that you mention it, the constellation was a...
So you are a hare Well yes. Arneb, or al-Arnab in the original Arabic, means hare. Arneb is the star alpha leporis, the brightest (ha!) in the constellation Lepus, the hare . You find the constellation, a suitably dim one (ha!), due South of Orion. Sweet reference to the niockname my parents gave m...
It is indeed. I have never been to the Vier-Schanzen-Tournee, as I am not terribly interested in ski jumping; what's more, I hail from Berlin and usually visit home for the New Year.
Welcome aboard the good ship IRU. Good to have another European, it gets lonely when everyone else is a Stater and posts in the middle of the night. :D Well, as I am currently preparing an exam (the how-to-become-an-evil-doctor-who-poisons-lungs-with-chemtrail-extracts exam), I will post in the mid...