Talk:Mornington Crescent (game)

1,2,3 O'Leary

I've heard of a game similar to this called 1,2,3 O'Leary in which the first person to say "1,2,3 O'Leary" is the winner. Utterly pointless and not very funny though. Anyone else heard of this??

Tube Map Picture?

Why is that picture of the tube map used? Isn't the modern diagram Harry Beck thing better because it is universally known as the tube map of london, rather that is a bit less well known. JacobTheRox (talk) 07:55, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

John Jaworski

John was my class teacher in 1968-9, when he won the New Scientist Competition of the Year, a year's free use of the Imperial College IBM 360, which he kindly shared with us, so we pitched in with the undergrads bit-mapping fonts and working on bubble-sorting. He himself was working on "a program which writes programs" and came in in a foul mood one day: IBM had just launched Basic 1, and had snaffled "START()" and "BEGIN()" for file-handling, so I jested, "Why not use my name, Sir?" He looked sideways, muttered "That's not such a bad idea at that" and that was the last I heard of it for five years, until Uni, and Kernigan and Richie's C... About another decade passed, and I was working on code interfacing one of the first hedging programs in the corporate world, which meant checking with Bjarne Stroustrup, formerly of Ball Labs. Having finished that, I asked in passing if they'd nicked that idea from John, and it seems they did. So now I'm at the heart of all evil... 2.219.81.89 (talk) 08:42, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

what?

I've read this several times and am still none the wiser. Another attempt at rewriting the premise would be greatly appreciated! 150.143.238.28 (talk) 14:56, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Merge proposal

Merge with Finchley Central (game)? Seems like they're pretty much the same game and Finchley was the basis for Mornington. There are very few individual sources on Finchley Central and I think it could probably be relegated to a section on this article. WikiMacaroons^Cinnamon? 00:21, 6 March 2026 (UTC)