Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Sockerel

Sockerel: noun. A vulgar poem mentioning a sock or association football. Derived from the words sock and doggerel, sockerel made its first appearance in a parody of Shakespeare´s play Othello, where instead of finding a handkerchief, Othello stumbles upon Desdemona´s sock and proceeds to hang himself from it, much to Iago´s amusement (in this parody, however, Iago is a parrot, as the play had been inspired by the popular Disney film Aladdin, which had, in turn, also been parodied by the same theatre company, calling it "A laddie" and moving the setting to a rural scottish village, where Jafar and the Sultan bet on a Celtic-Rangers game and use the powers of the Loch Ness monster to alter the score leading to catastrophic consequences. Luckily, the football players eventually run out of energy after a series of several thousand matched penalties - obviously due to rigging - and the Sultan along with Jafar decide to go to a pub and blame Margaret Thatcher). 

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