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Hats off to Spike Milligan - poet, writer, jazz musician, campaigner, comedian and the last of the Goons - who died today aged 83.
Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine, Sir Harry Secombe and now Spike. We'll miss you all.
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Sad news indeed. He was the inspiration of a whole trend of humour that has kept us laughing throughout the last four decades.
I am about to keep a minute's silence, and invite any one else to join me.
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A sad loss, indeed.
"Caw!" said the crow.
"Balls!" said Milligan.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I have a vision of Spike at the pearly gates, with St Peter (Sellers?) saying, "I'm sorry, the lock on the gate has broken - you'll have to turn the handle on your side."
Spike, of course, will reply, after a short pause, "But I haven't got a handle on my side!"
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No, Rhub, Heaven will be run by Henry Crun and Min. Bluebottle will be the chauffeur, and Eccles will be organising the entertainment. "There stood a fool, wearing a mini-coalsack ..." Grytpype-Thynne will sneaking around organising the angels' gambling, and Major Bloodnock be ordering the ducks in the pond around. Moriarty will be bilking the till and selling cold-weather insurance on Hell. And young Ned will be buying it, of course ... Damn, they were funny! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Reading through his obituary today I came across two wonderful quotes.
"He sent me a fax once. It read: I hope you go first. I don't want you singing at my funeral"
Harry Secombe
"Some people die of thirst. The Irish are born with it".
On a visit to Ireland in 1962
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I have just pulled MILLIGANS WAR off my bookshelf and dusted it down, it is the compilation of all 6(?) volumes of Spikes war memoirs here are the first lines of page1
September 3rd, 1939. The last minutes of peace ticking away. Father and I were watching Mother digging our air-raid shelter. "She's a great lttle woman" said Father. "and getting smaller all the time " I added.
I had forgotten how funny these books are , as well as being incredibly sad, I am going to read them all again.
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Ok--this is the second all-Brit-speaker thread I've seen today, and I'm going to break in on this one. (The other was the one where, for some unfathomable reason, a bowling alley seems to have been set up at a cricket match to entertain the kiddos.)  Here's my ?: obviously all you people know about these, er, 'Goons'. How? Did they have a TV show, or something?
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