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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Watching one of his films adoph hitler my part in his downfall funny with a few down bits but well recommend this film

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By *hris148Man
over a year ago

Never knew it was a film!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Never knew it was a film!"

Trust me it is and as funny as

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wasn't a fan of his latter TV "Q" series, but everything else he did was pure genius....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm walking backwards for Christmas, across the Irish Sea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An acquired taste and whilst unquestionably a comedy genius, his work varied from total art to utter shite.

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By *ourtesyCommonerMan
over a year ago

Calderbridge

Love Sir Milligan! Have you read his war memoirs? Absolutely brilliant reads. Seems everyone back then was absolutely mad

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

spike chased my mum down the corriders of the bbc back in her young days hehe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can only echo what has been said above:

You must read his wartime memoires.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The film was based on his autobiography of the same name

His epitaph reads "I told you I was ill"

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By *ourtesyCommonerMan
over a year ago

Calderbridge

A story I heard about him was that he enjoyed driving around London and stopping to ask people if they know how to get to such-and-such a place. If they replied that they didn't know, he'd give them directions and then drive off.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

tis due to pigeons

that alight

on nelsons hat

that make it white

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"A story I heard about him was that he enjoyed driving around London and stopping to ask people if they know how to get to such-and-such a place. If they replied that they didn't know, he'd give them directions and then drive off."

now thats just awesome lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Things that go bump in the night

Should not really give you a fright

It's the hole in each ear

That lets in the fear

That and the absence of light....

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By *ardeninedenCouple
over a year ago

Hull

His book "Puckoon" is brilliant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love spike and his war memories and poems.

Said Hamlet to Ophelia,

I'll draw a sketch of thee,

What kind of pencil shall I use?

2B or not 2B?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

who we on about here???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"who we on about here???

Eccles....!!!

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By *ourtesyCommonerMan
over a year ago

Calderbridge

"His book "Puckoon" is brilliant"

Have you seen the film made of it? It stars Shaun Hughes and is rather good, although I do prefer Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have been getting into his books from the same era, how the guy never got court matialed I will never know. I have to say though I have to be carefull where I read them, as I end up laughing my head off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Doctor O'Dell

Fell down a well

And broke his collar bone

But doctors should attend the sick

And leave the well alone.

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By *TUDLY_GOOD_FUCKMan
over a year ago

mansfield

Spike was a legend.

I remember watching him at an awards ceremony and reading a letter from prince charles and calling him a grovelling little bastard lol

And another classic was him stood in line to meet the queen. When the trumpets sounded he asked, what's that? Someone said it's the queen.

He replied foook me she can play them trumpets pmsl.

He was a member of the noise abatement society as well. He hated noisy neighbours.

Crazy lovely man and sorely missed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watching one of his films adoph hitler my part in his downfall funny with a few down bits but well recommend this film

The film was awful compared to the book.

It's well worth getting all of his war memoirs, they're all fantastic. Norma Farnes (his former secretary, then manager) wrote a really great book about him and their friendship.

He once said to Harry Secombe "I hope you die before me so you can't sing at my funeral"

Harry did die first but Norma had a cd of Harry singing played all the way through Spike's funeral...

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By *ourtesyCommonerMan
over a year ago

Calderbridge

"Watching one of his films adoph hitler my part in his downfall funny with a few down bits but well recommend this film

The film was awful compared to the book.

It's well worth getting all of his war memoirs, they're all fantastic. Norma Farnes (his former secretary, then manager) wrote a really great book about him and their friendship.

He once said to Harry Secombe "I hope you die before me so you can't sing at my funeral"

Harry did die first but Norma had a cd of Harry singing played all the way through Spike's funeral...

She also put together a book of letters and correspondence written by Spike. It came about because she needed money and Spike simply told her to make the book and keep the profits, so long as he didn't have to have anything to do with it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He also did a very moving poem about the Aberfan Disaster in a book called something like 'The small dreams of a scorpion'

Very very moving Poem.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watching one of his films adoph hitler my part in his downfall funny with a few down bits but well recommend this film

The film was awful compared to the book.

It's well worth getting all of his war memoirs, they're all fantastic. Norma Farnes (his former secretary, then manager) wrote a really great book about him and their friendship.

He once said to Harry Secombe "I hope you die before me so you can't sing at my funeral"

Harry did die first but Norma had a cd of Harry singing played all the way through Spike's funeral...

Indeed she did. There's a few of them in the series now, as he was a prolific letter writer.

Some of his 'as told by Spike Milligan' books are good too. His re-written version of Treasure Island is comedic genius...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who remembers him singing yingtong yingtong yingtong yingtong yiddli po or something like that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Who remembers him singing yingtong yingtong yingtong yingtong yiddli po or something like that

Yup and the Ning Nang Nong:

On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO!

There's a Nong Nang Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.

On the Nong Ning Nang All the mice go Clang And you just can't catch 'em when they do!

So its Ning Nang Nong Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning Trees go ping

Nong Ning Nang The mice go

Clang What a noisy place to belong is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

From memory!

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"Love Sir Milligan! Have you read his war memoirs? Absolutely brilliant reads. Seems everyone back then was absolutely mad

The film mentioned is based on one of them. I read them at school and have a few now at home. Very very funny.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Silly verses for kids' I grew up on

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"'Silly verses for kids' I grew up on"

Mary Pugh was nearly two

When she went out of doors.

She went out standing up, she did

But came back on all fours.

The moral of this story

Please, meditate and pause,

Never send a baby out

With loosely waisted drawers!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Poem for the lonely....

"Hello"

Genius.....

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

A hero of mine(mr)

Read all his books as a youngster, loved the Q series. And the banned series too

So many stories about him and Sellers

Sellers had a Rolls and it had a squeak. He called Milligan at 3 am and pursuaded him to get in the boot with a torch and chalk to mark the spot it was coming from. Sellers then mounted the kerb repeatedly to make it squeak , throwing Milligan all over the place. The car stopped and 2 policemen opened the boot. They saw Milligan and said " oh, it's you" and drove off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One funny story about Spike and Peter Sellers.

They were asked to star in a commercial for Benson & Hedges cigarettes. The said yes and accepted the payment of £20,000 each. Filming was to be done on a quay side in Spain. On arrival Spike fell off the quay into the water and injuring his ankle but said her could continue. In the last scene to be filmed the director asked Peter was asked to hold a pack of cigarettes above his head, he refused as he was (at the time) a spokes person for an anti smoking group, the director went berserk, shouting and asking why he would take part in a commercial for cigarettes. Peter's reply was "because Spike is in it", the director then asked Spike to hold the pack, he also refused....he was the president of the anti smoking group!!!

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

Apples be ripe

Nuts be brown

Petticoats up

Trousers down

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And the banned series too

Curry And Chips?

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By *evilwolfCouple
over a year ago

Leicestershire

He even tried opera you know..

Youtube the fresh fruit song

Wolf

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

I had his 'Milliganimals' when I was a kid. One of my favourite books.

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

"And the banned series too

Curry And Chips?"

Indeed!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And the banned series too

Curry And Chips?

Indeed! "

Very few have been lucky enough to have seen it.

Shame, it was well written, especially when you take into account his mental state at the time...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shih tzu.

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