Soon we found ourselves watching the power of the private purse knocking six bells out of the underfunded public sector.
Mr Prentis said people were worried about having enough money to feed their children but Labour MPs were more concerned with "knocking seven bells out of one another".
"Ken found out he'd got the job in late 2008, when we were appearing at the Donmar together, knocking eight bells of ideological crap out of each other every night in Chekhov's Ivanov.
When things go wrong, everyone now knows, the prime minister tends to succumb to fury, bellowing at whoever happens to be handy, knocking 10 bells out of innocent pieces of office equipment.
Boxing has its own channel now, BoxNation, where for a small fee you can watch pasty-faced Eastenders, or African-Americans you have never heard of, knocking seven bells out of each other any hour of the day or night, and Audley was their big attraction on Saturday night, fighting David Price for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight title.
Strange to think they'll be knocking seven bells out of each other come Saturday evening.
"We were knocking seven bells out of one another right from the off," recalled 49-year-old Shaun.
Inmates at New Zealand's Mt Eden Correctional Facility (MECF) were somehow filmed knocking seven bells out of each other while engaging in organised fights.
Even Will – now 41, just 15 in 1990 – who would battle addiction until getting sober in 2007, felt nothing but positivity regarding those formative experiences: "Falkirk [where I'm from] was usually full of Disco Dans, steaming drunk and knocking seven bells out of each other to shite music.
Thompson knocked seven bells of sense into him in the fifth, after Haye had led him in a dance for two rounds.
