The Culture Cup round 5

Right culture fans, after a short mid-season break we are back with round 5 of 606v2's bestest ever tournament.  Before we move on to the next round, lets wrap up the movers and shakers from round 4 which was the greatest TV comedy character since the year 2000.

TopHat was the big winner with Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory pulling in the most votes.  Possibly surprising given some of the competition but it gives TopHat his debut as a round winner and takes him soaring into, erm, mid-table.  Michaels picks up second place in round 4 with the ever popular David Brent whilst Hero grabs another fist full of points with one of my votes, Brian Potter.  This takes the ultra-consistent Hero to the top of the league table.  Adam is clinging on to a champions league spot in fourth which has got to hurt, seeing as his boyfriend is sitting top of the pile.  Poor round for The Womble whose pick of Jay Pritchett came in last.  Julius is still bringing up the rear, highlighting the old adage that 606v2 does indeed mirror life.

Hero (Brian Potter): (10) 36
compelling & rich (Tyrion Lannister): (5) 33
seanmichaels (David Brent): (11) 29
Adam (Barney Stinson): (8) 27
Galted (Mark Corrigan): (9) 23
Azzy (Gob Bluth): (5) 23
onlytreblewinners (Keith Lemon): (8) 22
TopHat (Sheldon Cooper): (12) 22
The Womble (Jay Pritchett): (3) 21
superflyweight (Big Keith): (4) 20
rowley (Larry David): (7) 19
Union (Papa Lazarou): (6) 19
bhb (Malcolm Tucker): (9) 18
Dolphin (Ron Swanson): (5) 17
The Boss (JD): (6) 16
ChequeredJersey ((Dr Percival Cox): (9) 16
jbeadlesbigrighthand (Tobias Funke): (4) 15
JuliusHMarx (Matt Le Blanc): (4) 10

Round 6 swings (see what I did there?) back to music, and the question is The best song ever with 3 or more words in the title.  Pretty simple, I'm sure even you lot don't need it explaining.  Please can you send more than one choice in case your first pick is taken.  I will always let you know if you don't get your number one pick.

Please see the poll for round 5 and remember, it is open for the whole forum to vote

A tough round again, with some excellent choices. There are a few I have read, a few I feel I should have read, and a few I have no interest in reading.

I have gone with The World According to Garp and Macbeth. Garp is just an amazing book and I am glad someone picked it. The chain of events are so ridiculous yet it is written with such brilliance that it all comes together. It’s witty, moving, profound and sad in equal measures. Awesome book.

Macbeth is about the easiest Shakespeare book to follow, aside from Romeo and Juliet, and is such a great story it gets my second vote. It has witches, fights, betrayal, guilt, love, ambition, paranoia, madness, death. It could have been written about me.....

Went for The Great Gatsby (possibly the most perfectly written book ever though a bit lacking in depth of characters & story) and Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (one of the two funniest characters I've read about (along with Holden Caulfield) although set in a depressing era).

Could someone with a green badge move this to global please?

Picked the two that I had read!!

Went for Huckleberry Finn as it was on telly when I was young and I'm pretty sure I enjoyed it. He was always painting a fence for some reason? Other one was Schindler's list, again saw it on the telly and it was a half decent watch.

I nearly went for the Count of Monte Cristo as I recently took a boat out to the island where the story was set. Just off Marseille it is, some lovely quiet coves there to drop anchor and chill, can heartily recommend a visit.

Went with Hamlet, which is a superb piece of work, and Winnie the Pooh, which I spent a decent part of my childhood with. Some brilliant works on the list, though not sure how "A Christmas Carol" qualifies...

Carol.....

Or Christmas.

Pretty sure it's Winnie the Pooh though (not a vote, a correction).

But not A

Count of Monte Cristo is a title rather than a name, if we are being arses about it.

Union Cane wrote:Count of Monte Cristo is a title rather than a name, if we are being arses about it.

Monte is a name.

Scottrf wrote:Or Christmas.

Pretty sure it's Winnie the Pooh though (not a vote, a correction).

Yeah, well spotted Scotty.

Does anyone know how to edit a poll?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Union Cane wrote:Count of Monte Cristo is a title rather than a name, if we are being arses about it.

Monte is a name.

In your face Union......

Macbeth and Gulliver's Travels for me. MacBeth is the only Shakespeare play I can genuinely say I've enjoyed - also helps that Polanski's film version has Lady Macbeth showing her Gert Stonkers in all of their technicolor glory. Read Gulliver because thought it was one o those books that everyone should read - and it really is. Very funny book and very enjoyable.

Why was Gatsby 'Great'?

Because he had a sports car and a swimming pool and he boffs Daisy Buchanan.

seanmichaels wrote:Carol.....

Whoever nominated that is my new hero. Genius.

Presume I got my first choice, so went for my 2nd and 3rd choices, Macbeth and Dorian Gray. Both exceptional

I'd never heard of Horace by Monty Python, but it's really good to see the votes so evenly spread out. This is the kind of round I'd quite like 12 votes to cast.

Azzy Mahmood wrote:I'd never heard of Horace by Monty Python, but it's really good to see the votes so evenly spread out. This is the kind of round I'd quite like 12 votes to cast.

Give you one clue who nominated it.

Excellent list though, strength throughout

Went for Macbeth and Huck Finn as read them both in school and thoroughly enjoyed both.

ChequeredJersey wrote:Excellent list though, strength throughout

Yep, strong round. The film's since 2000 was pretty strong but this is the toughest field.

Macbeth in the lead, who would have thought it.

Lol, my 2nd and 3rd choices are leading the way!

Macbeth is sheeeeeet.

I think it's because everyone read Macbeth at school. I don't know many people who have read Huckleberry Finn or Gulliver's Travels, although both should really be standard reading at school.

Huck Finn is just so well written, miles ahead of its time. Twain is a genious

seanmichaels wrote:Macbeth is sheeeeeet.

Have you ever read it?

Have you ever read?

I think I have every one of these on my bookshelf except Python, and the Shakespeare plays though I've read/watched them

Kane and Abel should be top  

Scottrf wrote:Kane and Abel should be top  

Not a single nomination from any participant. Not even with 2nd, 3rd and 4th choices from those that sent them.

Seems it's just you, Scotty.

Macbeth wouldn't make my top 5 Shakespearean outputs. Witches, a cuckolded blood-thirsty maniac, moving trees, floating daggers. What was Bill on when he wrote that?

Shouldn't the Shakespeare efforts be classed as plays and disqualified?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Scottrf wrote:Kane and Abel should be top  

Not a single nomination from any participant.  Not even with 2nd, 3rd and 4th choices from those that sent them.

Seems it's just you, Scotty.

So what? More people have heard of Joey Essex than Norman Borlaug.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:Macbeth is sheeeeeet.

Have you ever read it?

Have you ever read?

Read Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies, Birdsong, Awaydays, something by Tony Parsons and 4 or 5 of the Wheel of Time books. Also a good book called Monsoon by Wilbur Smith (?). Apart from that not a lot. I like reading my Mower spares catalogue and the ECB pitch guidance handbook.

I think I had to read Macbeth at school or it may have been Midsummer Nights Dream? I'd be scoring in double figures on University Challenge every week if I'd read more tripe like that.

Scottrf wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Scottrf wrote:Kane and Abel should be top  

Not a single nomination from any participant.  Not even with 2nd, 3rd and 4th choices from those that sent them.

Seems it's just you, Scotty.

So what? More people have heard of Joey Essex than Norman Borlaug.

Just an observation, princess.

Scottrf wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Scottrf wrote:Kane and Abel should be top  

Not a single nomination from any participant.  Not even with 2nd, 3rd and 4th choices from those that sent them.

Seems it's just you, Scotty.

So what? More people have heard of Joey Essex than Norman Borlaug.

Is Norman Borlaug the old guy who did 'It'll be alright on the night'?

Galted wrote:Shouldn't the Shakespeare efforts be classed as plays and disqualified?

Literature includes plays

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:Macbeth is sheeeeeet.

Have you ever read it?

Have you ever read?

Read Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies, Birdsong, Awaydays, something by Tony Parsons and 4 or 5 of the Wheel of Time books. Also a good book called Monsoon by Wilbur Smith (?). Apart from that not a lot. I like reading my Mower spares catalogue and the ECB pitch guidance handbook.

I think I had to read Macbeth at school or it may have been Midsummer Nights Dream? I'd be scoring in double figures on University Challenge every week if I'd read more tripe like that.

Birdsong is brilliant.

Mower spares catalogue sounds a great read.

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Galted wrote:Shouldn't the Shakespeare efforts be classed as plays and disqualified?

Literature includes plays

Indeed.

Tino wrote: What I am looking for is the best piece of literature with a name in the title.  It can be a book, a play, a poem, a short story, whatever you want so long as it has a name in the title.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:Macbeth is sheeeeeet.

Have you ever read it?

Have you ever read?

Read Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies, Birdsong, Awaydays, something by Tony Parsons and 4 or 5 of the Wheel of Time books. Also a good book called Monsoon by Wilbur Smith (?). Apart from that not a lot. I like reading my Mower spares catalogue and the ECB pitch guidance handbook.

I think I had to read Macbeth at school or it may have been Midsummer Nights Dream? I'd be scoring in double figures on University Challenge every week if I'd read more tripe like that.

Birdsong is brilliant.

Mower spares catalogue sounds a great read.

You forgot Razzle, Sean.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Galted wrote:Shouldn't the Shakespeare efforts be classed as plays and disqualified?

Literature includes plays

Indeed.

Tino wrote: What I am looking for is the best piece of literature with a name in the title.  It can be a book, a play, a poem, a short story, whatever you want so long as it has a name in the title.

Yeah, but that was before my selection did poorly.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Galted wrote:Shouldn't the Shakespeare efforts be classed as plays and disqualified?

Literature includes plays

Indeed.

Tino wrote: What I am looking for is the best piece of literature with a name in the title.  It can be a book, a play, a poem, a short story, whatever you want so long as it has a name in the title.

Yeah, but that was before my selection did poorly.

Do you want to change it?

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:Macbeth is sheeeeeet.

Have you ever read it?

Have you ever read?

Read Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies, Birdsong, Awaydays, something by Tony Parsons and 4 or 5 of the Wheel of Time books. Also a good book called Monsoon by Wilbur Smith (?). Apart from that not a lot. I like reading my Mower spares catalogue and the ECB pitch guidance handbook.

I think I had to read Macbeth at school or it may have been Midsummer Nights Dream? I'd be scoring in double figures on University Challenge every week if I'd read more tripe like that.

Birdsong is brilliant.

Mower spares catalogue sounds a great read.

You forgot Razzle, Sean.

Not really a porn man although I had to change gear after reading the cuff chapter in Birdsong.

If I'd selected Moby Dick would I have got double points for having 2 names in the title?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Galted wrote:Shouldn't the Shakespeare efforts be classed as plays and disqualified?

Literature includes plays

Indeed.

Tino wrote: What I am looking for is the best piece of literature with a name in the title.  It can be a book, a play, a poem, a short story, whatever you want so long as it has a name in the title.

Yeah, but that was before my selection did poorly.

Do you want to change it?

I'd like to change it to Macbeth please.

seanmichaels wrote:If I'd selected Moby Dick would I have got double points for having 2 names in the title?

What about Mac and Beth?

Hey, Mine has:

The A

Huckleberry

and Finn

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Galted wrote:Shouldn't the Shakespeare efforts be classed as plays and disqualified?

Literature includes plays

Indeed.

Tino wrote: What I am looking for is the best piece of literature with a name in the title.  It can be a book, a play, a poem, a short story, whatever you want so long as it has a name in the title.

Yeah, but that was before my selection did poorly.

Do you want to change it?

I'd like to change it to Macbeth please.

If I hadn't already voted for your choice, then maybe I would consider it.

Is it not enough that I voted for it?