Coming soon. The Culture Cup

First topic message reminder :

No, the Culture Cup isn't a really poor Boy George tribute act, it is the next installment of the v2 voting competitions.  We have had music, TV and film, and now comes a bit of a mixture with some books thrown in for good measure.  

It will follow the usual format of a category being put up, the contestants PM'ing me their choices and then a poll being set up for the wider 606v2 community to vote for their favourites.  It will hopefully contain 3 x TV, 3 x Music, 3 x Film, 3 x Books and maybe a bonus round.

Adam has already got second place tied up as he is a perennial runner up in real life and on 606v2, but the winners spot is up for grabs.  The prizes are excellent.  The winner becomes undisputedly the most cultured poster across the whole internet, they get my respect and most importantly, they get 3% of all the advertising revenue that Adam coins in from the site.  That is 3% of a lot of money.  Not to be sniffed at.

Places are limited, so if you're interested in showing off what a culture vulture you are, then please let me know on this thread.  Unless you are Adam, Jeff, Union, Galted, The Womble, compelling and rich or Dolphin in which case, you crazy kids are already entered.

Good luck.

Edit:

Here are the first two questions.  Starting off with a couple of easy ones to get things up and running.

1) Best book ever.  Quite simple really, what is the best book you have ever read?  For those of you too dim to read, just make one up.  If you're desperate to win then go for something popular.  Alternatively, be true to yourself and pick your own favourite.

2) Greatest song never to reach the top 5 in the UK charts in the year of their release.  Quite an open field, but we will be narrowing things down the further on we go.  Thought about having songs that had never made the top 10 but decided that was too difficult.

Please PM me a couple of choices for each question in case you don't get your first pick.  I will PM you if you don't get your first choice.  If you don't hear from me, assume you got it.

Please can you send answers by the end of play Friday.  When the poll is up, you can vote for yourself because I don't know how to ban it happening.  If you can live with the self-loathing, then knock yourself out.

Good luck.

my votes are in, im happy with my music choices but doubt they score that highly with you lot

books wont do well either, bit of a fantasy book geek so quite limited range

Have to say, there are some unbelievably good choices for the song category. There are 4 or 5 absolutely great picks.

And Union has sent his in as well.

Will take it as a given my choice is in the four or five Tina.

Rowley wrote:Will take it as a given my choice is in the four or five Tina.

It's a great song Jeff but I don't think it will win the popular vote.

There are some that are much more well known.

I never go populist Tina, but suspect my performance in the TV cup has already given that away.

Rowley wrote:Will take it as a given my choice is in the four or five Tina.

cant imagine belinda carlisle scoring that highly in this though old boy

compelling and rich wrote:

Rowley wrote:Will take it as a given my choice is in the four or five Tina.

cant imagine belinda carlisle scoring that highly in this though old boy

Was always more of a Claire Grogan man myself.

Ive seen Belinda Carlisle in concert. Twice.

Rowley wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:

Rowley wrote:Will take it as a given my choice is in the four or five Tina.

cant imagine belinda carlisle scoring that highly in this though old boy

Was always more of a Claire Grogan man myself.

i just had to google her to find out who she was!

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Have to say, there are some unbelievably good choices for the song category.  There are 4 or 5 absolutely great picks.

And Union has sent his in as well.

I'm sticking to my guns and picking what I like, I'm not going to pick a Phil Collins or Meatloaf song just to get votes.

compelling and rich wrote:

Rowley wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:

Rowley wrote:Will take it as a given my choice is in the four or five Tina.

cant imagine belinda carlisle scoring that highly in this though old boy

Was always more of a Claire Grogan man myself.

i just had to google her to find out who she was!

I'm very wary of doing that, ever since looking up Mike Tyson's tiger, Tiger Tyson.

I can't believe there is a better song than my pick. Books one was difficult as I haven't really read many books since school and I'm not sure Idiot Abroad 2 or Hoggy: Welcome to my world (Matthew Hoggard) count.

Union Cane wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Have to say, there are some unbelievably good choices for the song category.  There are 4 or 5 absolutely great picks.

And Union has sent his in as well.

I'm sticking to my guns and picking what I like, I'm not going to pick a Phil Collins or Meatloaf song just to get votes.

Ignoring the mainstream since the 70s

think i may need to broaden my taste to do well in this, in books i only read stuff that isn't real and not much music i like unless its got guitars and drums involved

My favourite book was gone, had an agonising pick over two absolute classics. I also couldnt pick a favourite Jasper Fforde, whilst A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng would have been completely unknown to most people.

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:My favourite book was gone, had an agonising pick over two absolute classics. I also couldnt pick a favourite Jasper Fforde, whilst A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng would have been completely unknown to most people.

Might be worth picking - the fact the competition contains the word "culture" could cause most of the ignoramuses to vote for the title with which they're least familiar.

Ignorami, surely?

Union Cane wrote:Ignorami, surely?

Did wonder that, Dictionary.com confirmed that it's "ignoramuses".

I've been asked to confirm that the correct plural form of "ignoramus" is "ignorami."

Sorry, but no. As with most singular nouns ending in -s, the plural of "ignoramus" is formed by adding -es. So when one ignoramus hooks up with another, you have a couple of ignoramuses.

True, "ignoramus" is a Latin loan word, but it's derived from a verb ("ignorare")--unlike, say, "stimulus," which comes from a noun and is one of the few Latin borrowings to retain the plural ending of -i.

compelling and rich wrote:

Rowley wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:

Rowley wrote:Will take it as a given my choice is in the four or five Tina.

cant imagine belinda carlisle scoring that highly in this though old boy

Was always more of a Claire Grogan man myself.

i just had to google her to find out who she was!

That suggests you have never see Gregory's Girl. You really should do, you are denying yourself one of lifes great pleasures. Don't watch the sequel though, ever.

seanmichaels wrote:I've been asked to confirm that the correct plural form of "ignoramus" is "ignorami."

Sorry, but no. As with most singular nouns ending in -s, the plural of "ignoramus" is formed by adding -es. So when one ignoramus hooks up with another, you have a couple of ignoramuses.

True, "ignoramus" is a Latin loan word, but it's derived from a verb ("ignorare")--unlike, say, "stimulus," which comes from a noun and is one of the few Latin borrowings to retain the plural ending of -i.

So you would say hippopotamuses then would you?

Silly man.

Union Cane wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:I've been asked to confirm that the correct plural form of "ignoramus" is "ignorami."

Sorry, but no. As with most singular nouns ending in -s, the plural of "ignoramus" is formed by adding -es. So when one ignoramus hooks up with another, you have a couple of ignoramuses.

True, "ignoramus" is a Latin loan word, but it's derived from a verb ("ignorare")--unlike, say, "stimulus," which comes from a noun and is one of the few Latin borrowings to retain the plural ending of -i.

So you would say hippopotamuses then would you?

Silly man.

Either ending is acceptable though I just say "hippos" to be safe, or "f*****g hippos" if they're chasing me.

Apparently if they are chasing you you are meant to run in zig zags as they have really poor peripheral vision and will lose you eventually. Although that could be rhinos so don't blame me if it doesn't work.

They would lose you and then find you again of you ran in zigzags, you'd be better off running diagonally, preferably in the direction of away.

What is the plural for Elvis?

AS in look at all the Elvis' over there ready for the Vegas show?

Elvi?

Elvuses

ELfs?

Elvises is how I'd term them. But then I don't have a PhD in English Language.

Think zig zags is the wrong choice of words. You need to run in a varied direction making lots of sharp and unexpected turns. Although in reflection think it is rhinos now.

However if you look like being attacked by a polar bear you should play dead as they like to kill their prey and so can lose interest if they believe you are already expired.

I may be wrong but I think hippopotamuses would be more likely to attack you in the water. You'd probably be best off swimming off in a diagonal direction.

Galted wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:My favourite book was gone, had an agonising pick over two absolute classics. I also couldnt pick a favourite Jasper Fforde, whilst A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng would have been completely unknown to most people.

Might be worth picking - the fact the competition contains the word "culture" could cause most of the ignoramuses to vote for the title with which they're least familiar.

if its merely who sounds the most cultural can i change my music vote to beethoven symphony no 9, would have to double check but i think it didnt reach the top 5 in the charts when it was first released.

Rowley wrote:Think zig zags is the wrong choice of words. You need to run in a varied direction making lots of sharp and unexpected turns. Although in reflection think it is rhinos now.

However if you look like being attacked by a polar bear you should play dead as they like to kill their prey and so can lose interest if they believe you are already expired.

yeah i think its rhinos, something about they have a bad turning circle so sharp turns

compelling and rich wrote:

Galted wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:My favourite book was gone, had an agonising pick over two absolute classics. I also couldnt pick a favourite Jasper Fforde, whilst A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng would have been completely unknown to most people.

Might be worth picking - the fact the competition contains the word "culture" could cause most of the ignoramuses to vote for the title with which they're least familiar.

if its merely who sounds the most cultural can i change my music vote to beethoven symphony no 9, would have to double check but i think it didnt reach the top 5 in the charts when it was first released.

It was kept off the number 1 spot by the charity single by Chopin for the victims of the whooping cough epidimic sweeping through Prussia.

compelling and rich wrote:

Galted wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:My favourite book was gone, had an agonising pick over two absolute classics. I also couldnt pick a favourite Jasper Fforde, whilst A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng would have been completely unknown to most people.

Might be worth picking - the fact the competition contains the word "culture" could cause most of the ignoramuses to vote for the title with which they're least familiar.

if its merely who sounds the most cultural can i change my music vote to beethoven symphony no 9, would have to double check but i think it didnt reach the top 5 in the charts when it was first released.

Imagine you're correct but, strictly speaking, you'd have to go for the final movement as it's the only one that contains singing.

compelling and rich wrote:

Rowley wrote:Think zig zags is the wrong choice of words. You need to run in a varied direction making lots of sharp and unexpected turns. Although in reflection think it is rhinos now.

However if you look like being attacked by a polar bear you should play dead as they like to kill their prey and so can lose interest if they believe you are already expired.

yeah i think its rhinos, something about they have a bad turning circle so sharp turns

The problem for me is I suspect my turning circle is worse than the rhinos. Suspect I would just have to stand my ground and fight it.

From the internet :

How to outrun a Rhino

1. Run toward a cliff and dodge out of the way of the Rhino.

2. The Rhino will probably run of the cliff and most likely die.

Union Cane wrote:From the internet :

How to outrun a Rhino

1. Run toward a cliff and dodge out of the way of the Rhino.  

2. The Rhino will probably run of the cliff and most likely die.

would cliff richard suffice?

I met Rhino from Gladiators at the Hatton fight in Vegas. lovely bloke and still a big unit.

Union Cane wrote:From the internet :

How to outrun a Rhino

1. Run toward a cliff and dodge out of the way of the Rhino.  

2. The Rhino will probably run of the cliff and most likely die.

many cliffs in the african plains?

Hang on, there is a disclaimer...

This is not based on expierience or reliable zoologists.

However, this is what I would do if confronted with a charging Rhino.

Warning!: Do not go out and try to be chased by a Rhino...it is not a smart move.

Galted wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:

Galted wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:My favourite book was gone, had an agonising pick over two absolute classics. I also couldnt pick a favourite Jasper Fforde, whilst A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng would have been completely unknown to most people.

Might be worth picking - the fact the competition contains the word "culture" could cause most of the ignoramuses to vote for the title with which they're least familiar.

if its merely who sounds the most cultural can i change my music vote to beethoven symphony no 9, would have to double check but i think it didnt reach the top 5 in the charts when it was first released.

Imagine you're correct but, strictly speaking, you'd have to go for the final movement as it's the only one that contains singing.

... and it's a bloody populist choice at any rate!

Rowley wrote:I met Rhino from Gladiators at the Hatton fight in Vegas. lovely bloke and still a big unit.

Why were you looking at his big unit?

You're better than that Julius (not much but still better)

I have to throw in a knob gag every now and then to keep the masses happy.

Never play to the masses.

superflyweight wrote:

Galted wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:

Galted wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:My favourite book was gone, had an agonising pick over two absolute classics. I also couldnt pick a favourite Jasper Fforde, whilst A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng would have been completely unknown to most people.

Might be worth picking - the fact the competition contains the word "culture" could cause most of the ignoramuses to vote for the title with which they're least familiar.

if its merely who sounds the most cultural can i change my music vote to beethoven symphony no 9, would have to double check but i think it didnt reach the top 5 in the charts when it was first released.

Imagine you're correct but, strictly speaking, you'd have to go for the final movement as it's the only one that contains singing.

... and it's a bloody populist choice at any rate!

id wait for all the votes in the music round before critising beethoven as the populist choice!

Why do these threads always seem to descend to knob jokes? There's more innuendo in this forum than at a Kenneth Williams convention.

I'm pretty confident my book choice will pick up at least 2 votes if not 3!! Both my book choices were worthy of being in this competition. Hopefully someone has nominated my second choice.

I don't like the word "gag" especially when preceded by the word "knob". All I can see now is Rhino's big unit...don't ask me how I got into his house.....OK, Shadow is his cleaning lady (person).

I saw Shadow and Jet at Alton Towers many years ago.

The Womble wrote:Why do these threads always seem to descend to knob jokes? There's more innuendo in this forum than at a Kenneth Williams convention.

I'm pretty confident my book choice will pick up at least 2 votes if not 3!! Both my book choices were worthy of being in this competition. Hopefully someone has nominated my second choice.

If your song choice doesn't win there is something seriously flawed with this whole process.

I once did a film thread that descended into knob gags from the first post onwards. I consider it my finest effort.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

The Womble wrote:Why do these threads always seem to descend to knob jokes? There's more innuendo in this forum than at a Kenneth Williams convention.

I'm pretty confident my book choice will pick up at least 2 votes if not 3!! Both my book choices were worthy of being in this competition. Hopefully someone has nominated my second choice.

If your song choice doesn't win there is something seriously flawed with this whole process.  

I once did a film thread that descended into knob gags from the first post onwards.  I consider it my finest effort.

If my song choice doesn't win then I will lose any respect i had left for the people of this forum.

I remember that thread, wasn't it just renaming films with 'Willy' in the title?

I used to have Rio's autograph on one of those massive foam fingers. My ex thought it would be nice to get it for me when she went to the Panto on year as it might stop me dry humping the tv when Rio was on screen. It didn't, but the sponge came in handy for cleaning up afterwards!

If you using the word "hippos" to avoid the hippopotamuses/hippopotami confusion, couldn't you use the word "ignos" re "ignormause/ignorami"

I think I may start peppering my posts with it when I invariably start losing a debate/argument