This page gives some background information about Harry and his mission, for members of the public and journalists. Journalists who require additional information or an interview, may email pressoffice@harryrings.com
A rather mysterious person who wants to change the World and turn it upside down. Harry is proud to be the World's most unusual peace activist and this site is a catalyst to help him in his goals, using unusual and sometimes funny material to bring home some very serious points. Harry is one of 4 personalities that share the physical body of Andronicos.
Technically speaking he is in charge of the planet as Director of the Human Race and Manger Planet Earth and his extensive list of edicts and commands to ensure World peace and the eradication of extreme poverty by December 12th 2012 can be read on one of his other websites: www.harryrings.org
Fuming mad. There are millions of people who die because of poverty, many of them children. He hopes this unusual project, among others he has done and is doing will help to sow a few 'idea seeds' for World peace and poverty eradication.
To make people think about the material and discuss it with others.
Yes and no. Harry's body timeshare partner Andronicos, invented a PC application to do some very useful things with recording voice, including phone call recording. Azam software was used to do this in a legal manner, but where permission was not given to use a recording, professional actors and friends were used, based on transcripts.
It's a long story which cannot be explained in full for subjudice reasons at this moment in time, but here is a summary: disputed taxes are owed. Additionally, Harry is attempting to change working practices in 3 UK government agencies so that what happened to him doesn’t happen to anyone else. He has written a book Andronicos and the Anchovies which explains everything. Some of the proceeds from this book and 2% of the net proceeds of Live in the 12th Dimension will be used to pay off the disputed tax debt for the time being. The Inland Revenue agreed. It's kind of cheeky for Harry to use material making fun of The Inland Revenue as a method to pay them, isn't it?
Harry was filmed in a recent SKY ONE documentary visiting these agencies demanding they fix their working practices. A complaint was also made on camera to the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Here are some pictures.
 Harry Inland Revenue |
 Harry Inland Revenue |
 Harry ICAEW |
 Harry DTI |
 Harry delivering Ape to DTI as a symbolism |
Another documentary is also being filmed which describes how and why Andronicos brought Harry Potbelly to life.
It's kind of a personal question! On the CD, 'special effects' were used to emphasise certain points. These special effects ceased on the introduction to Harry's song 200,000 Bottoms. They hammered home the point that most of the 200,000 people who rule the World should stop blowing wind and help to resolve a fundamental human right: not to be hungry or destitute. The British colloquial expression is they should stop farting about.
Based on Harry's earlier answer relating to the UK Tax authorities et al, he couldn't resist some additional 'special effects' when their name was mentioned throughout the CDs.
It is easier to understand it if you listen to it three times back to back: using a right earphone or speaker first, then the left, followed by both. It will all make sense on third playback as you listen across both conversations simultaneously. Harry wanted to create a weird effect by doing this and experiments undertaken showed that listeners concentrated more and got more out of the material by doing so. But there was another fundamental reason. He wanted to simply demonstrate that two actual realities could be played and in theory 'live' side-by-side, across actual space/time.
There doesn't appear to be anyone else taking the lead in eliminating extreme poverty and war by December 12th 2012, so Harry decided to become the World's first cyberspace global ruler and list everything that must be done and by whom. Technically there is another Director of the Human Race, Manager Planet Earth, but as Andronicos shares the same body as Harry, it doesn't really count.
See www.12-12-12.org for Andronicos 'The Great's' directives
See www.harryrings.org for Harry's
Harry has a legal statutory obligation to pay off his alleged tax 'debt'. He invented a number of rather original ways to do this. Harry will cease to offer membership to the Institute of Chartered Anchovy Hunters if the very respectable and esteemed ICAEW, implement a few of Harry's polite recommendations. Why don't you ring them for comment? Any journalist that gets an interview with Harry that results in press coverage and passes the simple 2 question test, will get complimentary family membership to the institute and be permitted to use the designation FCA after their name, in certain circumstances for 12 months free of charge. Very impressive on a press pass!
Public awareness and funding for researching the serious ideas presented on www.12-12-12.org and to further the scope of his Azam Disabilities Initiative (ADI) project, while at the same time paying off disputed taxes and providing a bit of fun for almost everyone at the same time. Harry is supposed to be an expert in communication using the power of voice and helping people avoid misunderstandings. He is also an expert in advising how very large companies' computer centres should manage their problems. You will note from this website that Harry has had a few problems of his own and so does the Human Race in general, so he decided to capture a whole flock of birds with one stone. Harry believes Live in the 12th Dimension will be one of several spring boards to make all the above happen on a shoe string budget.
Nevertheless, the answer to what Harry really wants to accomplish can be listened to in a 36 minute 36 second speech. Go to the speech introduction page.
Note that Harry leads a hectic life and travels extensively between interplanetary space/time dimensions, but more often to England, Cyprus and Denmark. All that is asked from you is that you listen to a few of the tracks and spend 30-60 minutes reading a few 'homework' pages beforehand, as many of the questions you may have will probably be covered there. They can be accessed at the bottom of this page. If you do this, the interview will be more productive and help you to create a fun, thought provoking and rather unusual news story for your readers, viewers or listeners.
During the interview, you will be offered the chance of a fully indexed recording of your meeting or phone call with Harry (the actual voices), which will be emailed to you at no cost, using Azam software. It's a perfect method to avoid misunderstandings, enables you to forward the actual interview to an editor, in whole or in part and furthermore helps you decipher what was said afterwards, especially if Harry starts talking to you in a silly voice with 'special effects'! And one more thing: If the interview results in press coverage and subject to your editor's approval, you will receive one complementary download copy of Azam software for office use. Never may it be said that Harry Potbelly Lord of the Onion Rings is not a generous chap.
Please email pressoffice@harryrings.com and specify whether the proposed interview is with Harry, Andronicos or both of them. Explain which media outlet you are from. Go on, go for it, be one of the first to apply and help warm up your readers, listeners or viewers in a rather sad World with a bit of Harry 'the man with the plan' Potbelly fever!
Note: Harry does not do TV talk shows, 'I'm a celebrity get me into or out of here, there or anywhere', 'Big brother', 'Have I got news for you', or MTV at this moment in time.
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Harry Potbelly (as opposed to Lord Harry Pot Belly) is the World's most unusual peace activist and plans to turn the World upside down. Would you like to help? Do you agree with many of the ideas presented on his other website: www.harryrings.org ? How would you run the World if you were in charge?
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Last modified: 9 February 2005