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"Henry VI Sock from the Right", Parts 1, 2 & 3. The Coffee Table 'Show-off' Edition. Toss this on your coffee table alongside a copy of "The Iliad" and don't have anyone doubt your erudition again. Stuck for conversation? Try, "I came across an interesting fact regarding the origin of 'Right to Life' the other day..." Throw a 'glocalization' into a sentence when things are getting a bit sticky. By the way, darling, if you come across someone who doesn't know who is being referenced in this little masterpiece, do let me know. We can have a chortle behind their backs together!

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The BBC’s Recession Theatre is proud to present

a limited edition DVD box set collection of …

“Henry VI Sock from the Right”, Parts 1, 2 & 3

Henry VI Sock from the Right, Part 1

Henry VI Sock from the Right, Part 2

Henry VI Sock from the Right, Part 3

FEATURING an outstanding cast of dozens of sock-puppets

in this vibrant and vital adaptation!

In order of slander:

Bill Gates - having just bought the rights to Shakespeare © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved – as Henry Just-An-Ordinary-Guy.

Bono as Falstaff because he’s always fancied himself... a thespian. Bill ‘Hal’ Gates has had modifications written in to accommodate them both as they’re good eggs who have become obscenely wealthy enough to alleviate their consciences by becoming self-and-media-proclaimed philanthropists. Why not allow Henry V to be integrated? It isn’t as if it’d interfere with the historical integrity.

Sir Bob Geldof as the kid who started out with good intentions but has taken up playing with the bullies as the solution to cleaning up the school ground. With the backing of the mass media, he’s convinced other children that economics are redundant and to join his band of merry plutocrats. Get off the stage, Gandalf.

A superstring as an Henry.

Sifir’s magnificent moustaches as Henry the Signifier.

KwoMan as an historically inaccurate portrayal of two Henries, half an Edward, a William and a Richard.

Loka Nunda’s boot as an Edward or Edmund’s dead foot; to be placed in a battle or murder scene of your choosing.

The former Soviet Union as the Plantagenets.

Mark Bellaire as Sir John Gielgud.

Ghoul Detail as Banquo’s torso.

Chris ‘Kit’ Marlowe as Shakespeare Shakespeare © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Danny as Puck.

Muammar Gaddafi’s triumphant return to the stage as a hero.

Miss Misty as Ophelia.

Rene Diedrich as Lady Macbeth.

Psiloscope as any Richards, Henries, Edwards or Edmunds unaccounted for.

Payo as Cordelia.

Resiliency, thy name is woman.

Anthony Pratt as a man with a head like this inheriting a fortune being an irrefutable argument for the failure of capitalism.

KwoMan as an historically accurate portrayal of Electra.

Nicholas as The Greek Chorus.

Jaan as a gesture made by an Henry

in Part 3FN ¬

Brandtkalk as additional props and an omitted apostrophe.

John Doe as a cluster of 578 spare pixels.

Druscilla and Turner busted for Rain, Steam and Speed.

Abdul “Ben” Camel as a deck of Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.

Vladimir Putin as one of the Oiks.

A tomato with Allah’s name in it as an argument for Intelligent Design.

unRecordists littertecture as Robespierre.

Iryna Harpy as The Village Idiot.

murmurists as Goodman’s Paradox.

Courtney as Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation.

Link as The Anatomist, an Edward and E=mc².

Rob Chrysler as The Heretic.

Pit as a refusal to ignite under Joan of Arc.

Duane Kirby Jensen as The Alchemist.

Will Vulture as Boo-Hurrah Theory.

Jaie as The Big Bang.

Rob Plath as The First Gravedigger.

Chaan as the European Union.

devotionalhooligan as Production vs. Shareholder Value.

The 9/11 Commission Report as

a Whitewash.

Dion as The Illuminati and other simplistic, schlock Conspiracy Theories.

Pablo Vision as a biased, non-existent witness five generations after the fact.

James as a WMD.

Wateringcan as The Origin of the Species.

RUELA as DNA evidence.

The U.S.A. as NATO.

Africa as continuing Collateral Damage.

Fallujah and the Gaza Strip as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. There must have been a moment, at the beginning, when we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Well, we’ll know better next time.

Disinformation as Democracy.

The IMF, Organised Religion and Divide & Conquer as Modus Operandi.

The Third World as Corpora Delicti.

A dead rat as Truth.

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If you squint & listen carefully:

Iryna Harpy19. murmurists 20. Courtney 21. Link

Rob ChryslerPatrice Hubert (aka Pit) Duane Kirby Jensen

25. Vultures 26. Jaie

Rob Plath28. Chaan 29. devotionalhooligan 0. Dion

Pablo Vision2. James 3. Wateringcan 4. RUELA

1. Sifir Mr. KwoLoka NundaMark Bellaire

Ghoul DetailRalph Brown

Miss MistyRene Diedrich

9. Psiloscope 10. Payo

Nicholas Alexander Jaan Patterson

13. Brandtkalk John Doe Druscilla Morgan Abdul “Ben” Camel unRecordists littertecture