The Culture Cup round 6

First topic message reminder :

I said it would be Monday morning and, like my milkman, I always deliver.  So here is round 6 of quite possibly the most exciting tournament ever.  Before we move on to round 6 and the poll for 'The best song ever with 3 or more words in the title' lets have a look at what you could have won in round 5.

Round 5 saw the poll for 'Best piece of literature with a name in the title' and threw up some classic works of literature and no small measure of controversy with the 'missing' and 'reappearing' votes scandal throwing the integrity of the whole competition into doubt.  With the mystery still unsolved and the 'missing' votes no closer to being found, I have made the decision to move on, forget the past and continue the competition.  At least I am a man of extremely high integrity and moral fibre so we can proceed safe in the knowledge that the Culture Cup is still on the level.  I have my finest man (Wingrove) on the case to try and find out what happened but until then, lets move forward in peace.

Round 5 was an interesting one with the votes being split across the board resulting in many posters claiming a decent points haul.  Using my complicated results algorithm, you would have only needed to get 1 vote in this round to get 7 points.  Sot its bad luck to Union who received no votes, no points and has subsequently seen his already slim chance of winning almost certainly disappear for good.  What makes it worse it that he had some votes before 'votegate'.  Life can be so cruel.  Hero continues to be Mr Consistent and remains on top of the Christmas tree, just as a fairy should be.  Julius had a stunning reversal in fortune with his pick of Macbeth claiming top spot for this round.  A fair few posters picked up 10 points and at the half way point, the league is still within grasp for a fair few posters.  Here are the runners and riders;

Hero (A Streetcar Named Desire): (10) 46
compelling & rich (Schindler's List): (9): 42
seanmichaels (Oliver Twist): (9) 38
Adam (A Christmas Carol): (10) 37
Azzy (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes): (10) 33
onlytreblewinners (Frankenstein): (10) 32
TopHat (Romeo and Juliet): (10) 32
Galted (The World According to Garp): (7) 30
The Womble (Matilda): (10) 31
Rowley (The Picture of Dorian Grey): (10) 29
superflyweight (The Great Gatsby): (9) 29
Dolphin (Winnie the Pooh): (9) 26
The Boss (Gulliver's Travels): (10) 26
bhb (Hamlet): (7) 25
ChequeredJersey (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn): (8) 24
jbeadlesbigrighthand (Count of Monte Cristo): (8) 23
Julius ( Macbeth): (12) 22
Union (Horace) (0) 19

Round 7 is back to films and the question is this: Name the greatest film actor or actress born in the same year as you Best film originally released in the decade of your birth.  You can, of course, lie if you want to but I doubt any of you are that precious.  I will leave it up to your conscience but please PM a couple of choices.

Here is the poll for round 6 and remember, it is open for the whole forum to vote!

PLEASE ONLY VOTE FOR 2 NOMINATIONS  I don't think it will survive another voting scandal.

PLEASE SEE EDITED QUESTION FOR THE NEXT ROUND

In the year I was born?! Come on man, I'm 24! I may as well put my own name down. You've let the old gits on this forum moan you into this, Tino; I am not proud of either you or them. For shame!!!!

it would appear half the cast of frigging twilight is the same age, which is rather depressing if im honest

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:In the year I was born?! Come on man, I'm 24! I may as well put my own name down. You've let the old gits on this forum moan you into this, Tino; I am not proud of either you or them. For shame!!!!

certainly a round for the oldies this one

how old is hero by the way? got a competition to try and win here!!

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Rowley wrote:Who nominated Bryan Adams? Come on Tina you owe it to us to out them so they can be subject to ridicule.

I couldn't possibly say, but I imagine the person who did, hates (in the following order):

Immigrants
The unemployed
Azania
The Smiths

Over to you.

Ha!

If your memory was half as good as your celebratory schmoozing you'd remember a) that Ain't No Mountain High Enough is my favourite song which I've now pitched twice into this competition; and b) I've already stated which two songs I've voted for

they may not be very many decent actresses in my year but there's some bloody fit ones, trying not to get caught looking at all these fit women in work

compelling and rich wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

compelling and rich wrote:any fans of the newsroom on here, its brilliant if not and one of the actresses is same age!

although i could sell out and put the bird out of mama mia on it, having seen some of the choices in this should get a couple of votes from the moulin rouge lovers

Love The Newsroom.  The one that plays Sloane is ridiculously good looking.

unfortunately wasn't her, its the one now with pink hair!! good actress just not as fit

Agreed. Alison Pill her name is. She's the one who accidentally sent a photo of her baps out to all her Twitter followers.

I'm not even on Twitter but I managed to find a picture.

Walter Matthau or Mickey Rooney?

Tough choice for Rowley in the next round.

There's Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Lee and Groucho Marx surely too?

TopHat24/7 wrote:a) that Ain't No Mountain High Enough is my favourite song

You like the DJ Griffin re-mix 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough (to keep out all the workshy immigrants)'

Hero wrote:There's Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Lee and Groucho Marx surely too?

Why Hero, that's the most absoid thing I've ever hoid.

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:In the year I was born?! Come on man, I'm 24! I may as well put my own name down. You've let the old gits on this forum moan you into this, Tino; I am not proud of either you or them. For shame!!!!

So Dolphin, I assumed you were much older than that......

I agree with Dolphin. Jamie Lynn Spears is my leading contender for the next round.

Went for Joy Division and Procul Harem. Love Will Tear Us Apart reminds me of my childhood and my brother playing their records in the mid 80's, and White Shade is one my favourite songs ever.

Wish I'd nominated INXS now, Never Tear Us Apart. I love that song, can't believe I forgot it!

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:In the year I was born?! Come on man, I'm 24! I may as well put my own name down. You've let the old gits on this forum moan you into this, Tino; I am not proud of either you or them. For shame!!!!

So Dolphin, I assumed you were much older than that......

 

You wouldnt say that if you saw my body, dahhhling!

I cant even pick Emma Stone and make jokes about rutting her, shes a damn year older than me.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

TopHat24/7 wrote:a) that Ain't No Mountain High Enough is my favourite song

You like the DJ Griffin re-mix 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough (to keep out all the workshy immigrants)'

Haha, in fairness, you do do me a disservice with that particular part of your critique. The issue is with the workshy, not the immigrants.

I cannot believe Joy Division has 9 times as many votes as Ray Charles. That fact makes me physically sick

ChequeredJersey wrote:I cannot believe Joy Division has 9 times as many votes as Ray Charles. That fact makes me physically sick

It gets worse, Bryan Adams has twice as many votes.

ChequeredJersey wrote:I cannot believe Joy Division has 9 times as many votes as Ray Charles. That fact makes me physically sick

Hit the road, Cheq

ChequeredJersey wrote:I cannot believe Joy Division has 9 times as many votes as Ray Charles. That fact makes me physically sick

Bryan Adams currently has as many votes as The Smiths, this would seem far more worthy of your ire.

4 votes for Force & Styles!

Rowley wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:I cannot believe Joy Division has 9 times as many votes as Ray Charles. That fact makes me physically sick

Bryan Adams currently has as many votes as The Smiths, this would seem far more worthy of your ire.

I'm not the biggest fan of the Smiths but Bryan Adams having votes is upsetting

Union Cane wrote:4 votes for Force & Styles!

Are they all yours?

OASIS have loads of votes! Worst of all, though at least it isn't Wonderwall

Rowley wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:I cannot believe Joy Division has 9 times as many votes as Ray Charles. That fact makes me physically sick

Bryan Adams currently has as many votes as The Smiths, this would seem far more worthy of your ire.

Neck and neck with superfly, Jeff.

In the table and this round.

Okay, I have to re-state my utter disgust at people's musical 'taste' on this forum. This is why I pulled out of the music cup, the voting makes me sick

I am doing surprisingly well this round!

Bearing in mind my first 3 choices were all taken, I am very pleased!

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Okay, I have to re-state my utter disgust at people's musical 'taste' on this forum. This is why I pulled out of the music cup, the voting makes me sick

Yeah! People having different preferences and opinions is disgusting!

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Okay, I have to re-state my utter disgust at people's musical 'taste' on this forum. This is why I pulled out of the music cup, the voting makes me sick

Not like you not to approve of people's nominations Azzy, can only assume you are a little tired after the weekend.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Union Cane wrote:4 votes for Force & Styles!

Are they all yours?

One of them is. The other three will probably vanish by the time votes are counted.

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Okay, I have to re-state my utter disgust at people's musical 'taste' on this forum. This is why I pulled out of the music cup, the voting makes me sick

I nearly nominated Captain Beefheart if that helps?

Union Cane wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Union Cane wrote:4 votes for Force & Styles!

Are they all yours?

One of them is. The other three will probably vanish by the time votes are counted.

You said in one of the previous rounds that voting for your own choice was

Union Cane wrote: akin to masturbation

That makes you a w*nker.

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Okay, I have to re-state my utter disgust at people's musical 'taste' on this forum. This is why I pulled out of the music cup, the voting makes me sick

Everything makes you sick. You're just a joyless individual.....

TopHat24/7 wrote:

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Okay, I have to re-state my utter disgust at people's musical 'taste' on this forum. This is why I pulled out of the music cup, the voting makes me sick

Everything makes you sick.  You're just a joyless individual.....

You wait till he logs on as Bull.

Then you'll see joyless.

Bull has the unique quality of being one of the only people more in need of a slap than Az. Or C_S.

Don't Look Back In Anger  

I can't help it if most people on here don't like decent music. At least there are no votes for Beatles or U2 songs, that did at least make me think you can be redeemed

Did you vote, Azzy?

If only Logical Song by Scooter had been prefixed with an "the", you could have had that Azzy!

You could have had Fast Food Song.

ChequeredJersey wrote:Did you vote, Azzy?

Yup, Bryan Adams and Otis Reading.

If only I'd remembered Scooter. It's actually called Ramp! (The Logical Song)  

Is happening to be born in the same year as an actor a sign of culture? My birth year is a who's who of who.

Azzy, didn't I hear you say previoulsy that you like Steps?? Or were you being trenchant?

You mock the beatles but vote off everything I do  

jbeadlesbigrighthand wrote:Is happening to be born in the same year as an actor a sign of culture?

No, not really. I wish I had picked a different question to be honest. Too late now though.

Stella wrote:You mock the beatles but vote off everything I do  

I am by no means the biggest fan of the Beatles but would sooner listen to the Frog Chorus than Bryan Bleeding Adams.

I'd rather listen to me being tortured than 90% of the list above, but hey ho, each to their own.

I do like Steps, who doesn't? I used to like them when I was 5,6,7,8...

You picked Bryan Adams over Ray Charles, arguably the greatest artist in any genre of the last 100 years, though at least you picked the equally brilliant Otis Redding (with an admittedly better song than mine). Hard to take your bitching about other people's tastes seriously

My mum's from Vancouver, I'm half Canadian. Bryan is my hero. I'd vote for him over Steps, Kylie or even S Club.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

jbeadlesbigrighthand wrote:Is happening to be born in the same year as an actor a sign of culture?

No, not really.  I wish I had picked a different question to be honest.  Too late now though.

No it's not! Really, it's never too late to change!!

Azzy Mahmood wrote:I'd rather listen to me being tortured than 90% of the list above, but hey ho, each to their own.

I do like Steps, who doesn't? I used to like them when I was 5,6,7,8...

Last year?