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The satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image portrayed Burnet as a cringing, fawning royalist ("lick, lick, smarm, smarm"), forever trying to suck up to the nearest available member of the Royal Family. The satirical magazine Private Eye referred to him as "Arslicker Burnet".
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