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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??

Chaim Levitz

I can find no evidence for the existence of this person. I propose to delete the sentence about him if nothing is provided within the next few days. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:07, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shaftesbury Avenue predecessor

I've just reverted the claim that the game was invented in a pub in 1970, by some actors who had no apparent connection to ISIHAC. This is only sourced to some letters to the editor in the Guardian newspaper (which I assume fall under WP:USERGENERATED) - I suspect we shouldn't quote a user-generated source for as bold a claim as "Bunny May says that Geoffrey Perkins and Humphrey Lyttleton are wrong, and he invented the game in 1970", as per WP:SELFSOURCE this is both self-serving and makes claims about third parties. If there are any stronger sources out there then it'd be great to track the true history of Mornington Crescent, but I don't feel that this source is, by itself, enough to support "game claims to have been invented by actors in 1970". --McGeddon (talk) 16:39, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What is it really?

An actual game, or an improv routine involving appearing to play a game with non-obvious rules? --TiagoTiago (talk) 03:54, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's an actual game. Lovingboth (talk) 13:40, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's a fake parlour game. It is a game in that it is play-acting. Mezigue (talk) 15:04, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's probably more than a board game rather than a parlour game. There was a certain time where the rules said the first move could be "Mornington Crescent". So logically this would suggest every other time you can't play MC on first round. But who knows...? Slightnostalgia (talk) 22:41, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there was such a time that the opening move could be MC itself. But Froggatt's rule (1932, Camberwell) as much as it might be occasionally overlooked in the 21st century, states that, in common with visits to "real" stations on the "real" tube, it is the journey, not the destination, that is the point.Twistlethrop (talk) 13:24, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook App?

This doesn't seem to exist. Unless FaceBollox is playing up again? Smokey TheCat 03:47, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A Modest Proposal

In the spirit of the game itself and as a wonderful Wikipedia easter egg I would like to propose modifying this article to maintain the fiction that Mornington Crescent is a real game. I think any damage to Wikipedia's factual veracity would be excusable in this rather singular case. --Andybak (talk) 11:38, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a great idea! I bet there are many who would dissent, and claim that Wikipedia is not a place for jokes and japes, but, frankly, if anybody falls for it, they shouldn't really be allowed to sit on a chair without supervision, let alone voice opinions. ;-) Pollythewasp (talk) 13:40, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]