From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #269 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume99/269 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 269 Today's Topics: Re[B7L] The B7 Ball Re: Re [B7L] The B7 Ball Re: [B7L] I'm sorry to have to announce... [B7L] You know you're a B7 fan when... [B7L] Battening Down the Hatches Re: [B7L] You know you're a B7 fan when... [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent [B7L] The B7 Ball Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent RE: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent RE: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent [B7L] OT Val Westall [B7L] Servalan/Weapon Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L]The B7 Ball Re: [B7L] Jarriere (Was : Servalan/Weapon) Re: [B7L] OT Val Westall [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent [B7L] Re: Servalan RE: [B7L] Desert Island Blake's [B7L] Re: Desert Island Blakes Re: [B7L] Desert Island Blake's Re: [B7L] The B7 Ball Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L] OT Val Westall ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 07:12:50 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re[B7L] The B7 Ball Message-ID: <001401befedc$18209000$cd18ac3e@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Another boring night shift, so I slipped out to catch up on some of the latest arrivals: Mr and Mrs Emption, with their fanatically Communist son, 'Red' Emption. Mr and Mrs Ance have also brought along their son, Del Ivor Ance. Mr and Mrs Smith with their son Ronald, who has in turn brought along his own eldest, a frighteningly cold-hearted child known to his grandparents as the Chill Darren of Our Ron. That shadowy figure in the corner must be Terry Nostra. And the curvaceous bikini-clad figure with the meat cleaver has to be that well known babe, Ann the Butcher. The T'farls have just arrived with their daughter Bea T'farl. The Liphs of Crandor with their daughter, Kay. And Mr and Mrs Fication-Programme are rumoured to have used underhand methods in ensuring the attendance of their own daughter, Patsy Fication-Programme. Mrs Did-Avon-really-think-of-Blake who is of course married to Watt Did-Avon-really-think-of-Blake. Lowering the tone somewhat, Mr and Mrs Sto wiv their young 'un, 'Arry. From Goth, Mr and Mrs Tent with their adoring protegee Cher. Cher loves the Tents of Goth. And all the way from another galaxy, Mr and Mrs Dromeda with their daughter, Janet. (And on the same lines, Mr and Mrs Vader with their evil Sith Lord son, Eric.) Will the canapes last, I wonder. Neil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:03:42 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: Re [B7L] The B7 Ball Message-ID: <001601befedc$1f4aab40$cd18ac3e@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-7" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathryn wrote: +AD4-Hey, I actually thought of one+ACE- +AD4- +AD4-Mr and Mrs Cell, and their three-year-old son, who had an unfortunate +AD4-encounter with some roadworks, and the bitumen therefrom, tarry Al Cell. I thought of that one myself (or at least something extremely similar), but I'm quite happy to let someone else take the honours. In the meantime, Mr and Mrs Plagueship, with their Kalashnikov-toting daughter, Wanda 'AK-47' Plagueship Neil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:14:05 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] I'm sorry to have to announce... Message-ID: <012101befedd$06316300$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rob wrote: > ... that Sue PremeCommanderServalan will not, in fact, be attending the > Ball. Tragically, she is in an advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease. > Indeed, things are so bad that she no longer recognises her lifelong friend > Theo ThorityofthePresident. A tragedy indeed. Let's hope that the mood can be lifted by the appearance of those two Egyptian deities: first, the eight-legged god of goats, Cairo Pan Spider, and with him the goddess who warms our hearts and hearths by always raising a laugh: ha! Vesta Cairos. Una ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:57:28 PDT From: "Hellen Paskaleva" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] You know you're a B7 fan when... Message-ID: <19990914175729.61453.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi, folks! I was 'off' for about 10 days and now, wandering around my usual sites, I found the disscussion, pointed in the 'subject' above. As it lasts more than two weeks yet, maybe some of you have already seen it. Despite it, take a look... An example at random from the posts: You know you’re a B7 fan when: * Quarry pits and forests look like alien planets * You stop worrying where Dayna keeps her explosives * You wonder why cinema ushers seem to be carrying Liberator guns * You think your shaving foam goes solid in seconds * Your drinks take on a healthy green colour ... * ‘Avon calling’ takes on a whole different meaning ... * You bother to freeze frame your video to see if Avon’s heels really are taller than Cally’s (and just for the record, they are) Ta, Hellen ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:34:43 EDT From: Bizarro7@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Battening Down the Hatches Message-ID: <55c56115.250fef43@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just finished securing everything around the property as Force 4 Hurricane Floyd nears the horizon. Expect hurricane force winds tonight here in Central Florida. It's going to be a wild ride. Mandatory evactuations from the coast have gone on all day and all the hotels and motels inland are completely booked. The supermarket shelves have been stripped, the gas stations are closed and out of gas, the shelters are filling up. The first rain bands are starting to come through. See you all on the backside of the storm! Leah ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:54:55 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] You know you're a B7 fan when... Message-ID: <014c01befee2$a73169d0$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hellen posted: > You know you're a B7 fan when: you want to live forever, but die, trying. Una ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:15:16 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <37DED702.4125DD31@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Playing against both the writer and editor of the Sevencyclopaedia is going to be difficult, but I'll have a go. Anyway, Judith has banned retrograde orbits, though I think they may be allowed if you play the Picard Manoeuvre, but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, Neil has declared Bayban's rules and gone for Kainessos. A clever opening gambit, methinks, unless you do a red one mobilisation, which I am doing: Probus-4 Get out of that one if you can! -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Be inconsistent, but not all the time ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:57:49 EST From: "Joanne MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <19990915005749.72813.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Erm, sorry to sound like a complete ignoramus, but would someone might telling me what this game is? That way, even if I don't play I will be able to follow what in the world (or, rather, off it ) the players are doing. Thanks in advance Joanne ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:12:44 -0700 From: mistral@ptinet.net To: B7 List Subject: [B7L] The B7 Ball Message-ID: <37DEF28C.9766E392@ptinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Say hello to: Several generations of the Piri family: Moe the eighth, Moe the tenth, Moe the eleventh; having recently recovered from Cancer, the one who controls the dough, Moe the ninth, is attending as well. Mr. and Mrs. Of-agitated-atoms, and their spineless son, Hy 'wishy-washy' Claude Of-agitated-atoms. The Withycomb-Pewters, and their son Neville R. Q. Withycomb-Pewter. Mr. and Mrs. N'heeros, and their son (who, in appreciation of his multi-cultural ancestry, has been named after all four of his great- grandfathers): Saddam Liam Hapu Deep N'heeros. Mistral -- "Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo. So little time! So much to know!" --Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:10:10 EST From: "Joanne MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <19990915011010.87939.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Joanne MacQueen" >but would someone might >telling me what this game is? That "might" should, of course, be "mind", but it's more than likely that software that has chosen to be user-unfriendly today is the cause of mental sentence scrambling (or my trains of thought have collided horribly, one or the other). It's getting to the point where I want to carry out what a colleague refers to as "percussive maintenance". Vila called it "kicking the living quartz out of it", or words to that effect. Regards Joanne (it isn't time to say "Aaarrrggghhh!!!" yet. Wait a little while) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:14:25 -0700 From: mistral@ptinet.net To: B7 List Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <37DEF2F0.ED5427DE@ptinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joanne MacQueen wrote: > Erm, sorry to sound like a complete ignoramus, but would someone might > telling me what this game is? That way, even if I don't play I will be able > to follow what in the world (or, rather, off it ) the players are > doing. I'll second that; do tell, somebody. Thanx. Mistral -- "Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo. So little time! So much to know!" --Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:42:05 +0200 From: Jacqueline Thijsen To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: RE: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <39DCDDFD014ED21185C300104BB3F99F6C0402@NL-ARN-MAIL01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Joanne wrote: > Erm, sorry to sound like a complete ignoramus, but would > someone might > telling me what this game is? That way, even if I don't play > I will be able > to follow what in the world (or, rather, off it ) the > players are doing. I've got this sneaking suspicion that the object of the game is to see how many obscure postings can be made before someone asks this question. I don't know why I suspect this, although the fact that Neil is participating in the game might have something to do with it. Jacqueline ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:36:57 EST From: "Joanne MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: RE: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <19990915023657.74130.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: Jacqueline Thijsen >I've got this sneaking suspicion that the object of the game is to >see how >many obscure postings can be made before someone asks this >question. I hope not, for the players' sakes, as it's suddenly become an extremely short game in that case. >I don't know why I suspect this, although the fact that Neil is > >participating in the game might have something to do with it. Aw, don't you trust Neil? Regards Joanne ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:00:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Carol & Gordon Burgess To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] OT Val Westall Message-ID: <37DCD3A500000A38@base.catchnet.com.au> (added by base.catchnet.com.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Could you Email me as your addy keeps bouncing everytime I send... Sorry folks for this folks :-) TTFN Carol 'Hondo' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:43:02 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Servalan/Weapon Message-ID: <19990915054307.13389.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Joanne wrote: Regards, Joanne (listening for a bludgeon-wielding Harriet)> Harriet, do you want to distract her while I wield the bludgeon from behind?? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:23:09 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <000801beff3d$aa0513e0$2c1bac3e@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Judith wrote: >Playing tough I see. I'm fine, you forgot about the gravitational vortex. That >gives me an easy move to Kairos. Have fun with the spiders... By all means do. Meanwhile I'll exploit the clear run through Sector 4 you've left me and make my way to Malodar. Bayban's Rules, remember:) Neil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:33:16 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L]The B7 Ball Message-ID: <000901beff3d$aad61f80$2c1bac3e@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Una wrote: >Mistral wrote: > >> Famed research biologist Dr. Toothpick was too busy to find an >> escort for the ball, but didn't wish to attend entirely alone, and brought >> his favorite pet, itsy-bitty lab rat Furry Toothpick. > >Oh, much respect! Seconded. Meanwhile, the three Knot brothers, who each have a wife called Jemima. One's thick as a brick, one's a waste of space, and the third can't stand social occasions. That's Jemima Knot (stupid), Jemima Knot (expendable), and Jemima Knot (going). >Good God! Look at the dress Mrs Funnel is wearing! Here she is - tacky Ann >Funnel. And her best friend Imogen, daughter of Mr and Mrs Pack. Immy Pack. Neil ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:42:11 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Jarriere (Was : Servalan/Weapon) Message-ID: <19990915064213.87189.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed After I said: Joanne wrote: I have bad news for you, dear. It was me. That's part of the reason I adore him ;-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: 15 Sep 1999 09:47:24 +0200 From: Calle Dybedahl To: Carol & Gordon Burgess Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] OT Val Westall Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >>>>> "Gordon" == Gordon Burgess writes: > Could you Email me as your addy keeps bouncing everytime I send... Val's adress bounced off the list almost a month ago, I'm sorry to say. -- Calle Dybedahl, Vasav. 82, S-177 52 Jaerfaella,SWEDEN | calle@lysator.liu.se This posting is protected by a Whizzo Brand Fnord Filter (TM). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:55:29 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Wed 15 Sep, Jacqueline Thijsen wrote: > Joanne wrote: > > > Erm, sorry to sound like a complete ignoramus, but would > > someone might > > telling me what this game is? That way, even if I don't play > > I will be able > > to follow what in the world (or, rather, off it ) the > > players are doing. > > I've got this sneaking suspicion that the object of the game is to see how > many obscure postings can be made before someone asks this question. I don't > know why I suspect this, although the fact that Neil is participating in the > game might have something to do with it. Oh ye of little faith! I have in my kitchen a BBC cassette tape of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'. On the box, it proudly proclaims "contains the rules for Mornington Crescent". Now admittedly the BBC had a phone call the other week from a Mrs Trellis complaining that her box appeared to be missing the rules, but anyone listening to the radio show will soon be able to pick them up. Mornington Crescent is a station on the London Underground and in the traditional version the places visited are all underground stations. Until the last year or so, Mornington Crescent was disused and it was actually impossible to get there by underground. This is undoubtedly what makes the game so complex and challenging to play. Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.nas.com/~lknight ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:16:20 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Wed 15 Sep, Steve Rogerson wrote: > Playing against both the writer and editor of the Sevencyclopaedia is > going to be difficult, but I'll have a go. > > Anyway, Judith has banned retrograde orbits, though I think they may be > allowed if you play the Picard Manoeuvre, but I could be wrong about > that. Anyway, Neil has declared Bayban's rules and gone for Kainessos. A > clever opening gambit, methinks, unless you do a red one mobilisation, > which I am doing: > > Probus-4 > > Get out of that one if you can! Drat, I was afraid this would happen. Playing on a list, you can never determine the order of play properly. As your move is obviously superior to mine, I'll ignore my move to Kairos (especially as I couldn't reach it from Probus 4) and reply to your move. Neil can then respond to my move, and you follow on from him. That's an interesting point with regard to the Picard Manoeuvre and I have to agree that it would supercede the rule about retrograde orbits, but do remember that it won't work close to a gas giant. Red one mobilisation this early in the game? That's a little desperate isn't it? Still, I think I can work out a suitable response. Nobody's used the teleport yet and given that you used the Picard Manoeuvre, I think I'm justified in a one-off use of an LRT (long range transmat). I will therefore move from Probus 4 to Goth. Don't forget your breathing aparatus - the atmosphere is toxic if you're exposed for long. JUdith PS. Do you think we should have a game of Mornington Crescent at Redemption? That would give con-goers a chance to discuss the rules with our panel of experts. -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.nas.com/~lknight ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:13:05 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <02f801beff53$9e445780$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jacqueline wrote: > Joanne wrote: > > > Erm, sorry to sound like a complete ignoramus, but would someone might > > telling me what this game is? That way, even if I don't play I will be able > > to follow what in the world (or, rather, off it ) the players are doing. > > I've got this sneaking suspicion that the object of the game is to see how > many obscure postings can be made before someone asks this question. I don't > know why I suspect this, although the fact that Neil is participating in the > game might have something to do with it. The very best thing is to learn by watching. You'll soon get the hang of it! Una ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:27:19 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <031701beff54$5e05d990$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve wrote: > Anyway, Judith has banned retrograde orbits, though I think they may be > allowed if you play the Picard Manoeuvre, but I could be wrong about > that. Anyway, Neil has declared Bayban's rules and gone for Kainessos. A > clever opening gambit, methinks, unless you do a red one mobilisation, > which I am doing: > > Probus-4 Hmm. Hmm. Neat, but not inescapable. If we extend the scope of Bayban's Rules to include the brilliantly-conceived Argus Exception, which I do believe is acceptable under the Maryatt Convention, then I can hie me all the way to: Calipheron. Una ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:56:05 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: "Lysator List" Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <033701beff58$298e9e50$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Judith wrote: > I have in my kitchen a BBC cassette tape of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'. On > the box, it proudly proclaims "contains the rules for Mornington Crescent". > > Now admittedly the BBC had a phone call the other week from a Mrs Trellis > complaining that her box appeared to be missing the rules, but anyone listening > to the radio show will soon be able to pick them up. The lovely Samantha could provide a High-Tech E-mail Mornington Superhighway version of the rules, but she doesn't have a PC. Perhaps someone could give her one? Una ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:02:58 +0100 From: "Deborah Day" To: "blakes7" Subject: [B7L] Re: Servalan Message-ID: <00b801beff61$7db55920$3e8ebc3e@oemcomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had always thought that Servalan was her first name, and that she was something like Servalan Smith (or McCluskey, or whatever). I guess I had assumed this because women in Blakes 7 seem to be addressed by their first names, such as Jenna. The similar thing now is people like Oprah who have a distinctive name and are very well known, so that there is no need to elaborate. Mind you, I like the thought of Ethel Servalan too. I used to have an Aunt Ethel who could have given Servalan a run for her money! >Re: Names for Servalan. Joan is too suitable. Like Joan of Arc, only her >sensual, secular conterpart. A maiden leading an army, each one forever >distant. > >Boopsie Servalan has its strange appeal. > Debbie Day ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:06:09 +0100 From: "David A McIntee" To: Subject: RE: [B7L] Desert Island Blake's Message-Id: <199909151007.LAA04463@gnasher.sol.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gambit Star One Rumours Of Death Death Watch Blake -- "This path has been placed before you; the choice to take it is yours alone." http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Mansion/4845 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:26:27 +0100 From: "David A McIntee" To: Subject: [B7L] Re: Desert Island Blakes Message-Id: <199909151028.LAA07810@gnasher.sol.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gambit Star One Rumours Of Death Death Watch Blake -- "This path has been placed before you; the choice to take it is yours alone." http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Mansion/4845 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:39:16 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] Desert Island Blake's Message-ID: <03d601beff6f$2825ef20$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David A McIntee wrote: > Death Watch Yes, 'Deathwatch' is a much under-rated episode. I wonder if you would have appeared on the hitherto unrevealed 6th account on the Q-study, David. I discounted it as being noise on the grounds that the only people loading on it were myself and Matthew, and we'd done our sorts together, but we both rate 'Deathwatch' extremely highly, and that basically its distinguishing feature. Una ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:24:51 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] The B7 Ball Message-ID: <000401beffa3$d5362480$0d478cd4@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mistral wrote: >Several generations of the Piri family: Moe the eighth, Moe the tenth, >Moe the eleventh; having recently recovered from Cancer, the one who >controls the dough, Moe the ninth, is attending as well. Unnngghhhh!!!! >Mr. and Mrs. Of-agitated-atoms, and their spineless son, > Hy 'wishy-washy' Claude >Of-agitated-atoms. Hhhhnnnuurghhh... >The Withycomb-Pewters, and their son Neville R. Q. Withycomb-Pewter. >Mr. and Mrs. N'heeros, and their son (who, in appreciation of his >multi-cultural ancestry, has been named after all four of his great- >grandfathers): Saddam Liam Hapu Deep N'heeros. Oh very well, officer, I'll come quietly.... Does anyone object to me collating all these and putting them up on my website? All contributors would be cited unless they'd prefer to remain anonymous. Neil ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:12:04 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <000201beffa3$d22a6b20$0d478cd4@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joanne asked: >Erm, sorry to sound like a complete ignoramus, but would someone might >telling me what this game is? That way, even if I don't play I will be able >to follow what in the world (or, rather, off it ) the players are >doing. Tempted as I am to respond with something glib like 'You mean you don't KNOW?', I'll try and explain. Mornington Crescent is a London Underground station. It is also the BBC Radio 4 version of a game that I first came across under the guise of Finchley Central (another London Underground station). There was an article about it in #26 of Imagine, the long-defunct British role-games magazine. A few quotes to explain all to the uninitiated: 'It is a game which can be played by any number of people, in any location ... Its originality lies not in its game mechanics or its victory criteria, but in the singular concept that winning is nothing - indeed, winning is childishly easy. The idea is to play with style.' 'The rules are simplicity itself, and are as follows: 1) Each player, in turn, names a London Underground station. 2) The winner is the first to say Finchley Central.' 'Let us take my experience teaching the game to a novice in the pub one evening. He appeared puzzled by the rules, but I immediately started a game, inviting him to name a station, any station, first. 'Finchley Central', he said, and won the game. I challenged him to a secondand he again opened 'Finchley Central', moving 2-0 ahead on the series. A third time and his tactics were unaltered, 'Finchley Central' and an impressive lead. But he looked troubled, confused as he realised he was missing something. Another game, I demanded, and this time he pondered for a long while. 'Turnham Green' he said, in a softer voice, then added, 'There's more to this than I first thought'. (Brian Creese, Imagine #26, May 1985) Hopefully that's cleared up any confusion. Now I see Steve has entered the fray, with a cunning opener that suggests he's not a player to be dismissed lightly. However, I'll have to wait for Judith's next move before I comit myself to anything rash. (Not that I'm quaking in my boots or anything.) Neil ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:18:09 +0100 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] OT Val Westall Message-ID: In message , Calle Dybedahl writes >>>>>> "Gordon" == Gordon Burgess writes: > >> Could you Email me as your addy keeps bouncing everytime I send... > >Val's adress bounced off the list almost a month ago, I'm sorry to say. Val's changed ISP from Zen to Freeserve. I shall remind her to *tell* people this... -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V99 Issue #269 **************************************