Here's to Spike (Milligan)

Subject: Here's to Spike
From: GUEST,Mark Campbell
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:22 PM

Just another note for one of the worlds better known humans with a good mind and heart.

Goodonya Spike Milligan.

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:49 PM

Link to another thread about this

Maybe this should take over as Part 2, since it's up to 69 posts already.

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:51 PM

a moment of silence, eh, Mcgrath?

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:56 PM

Fallen in the water again. I meant to give a link to the existing thread on this, which I think should now be seen as part 1 to this part 2.

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: Cllr
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 09:13 PM

What! No spoiler space? Oh, Sorry wrong Spike (BTVS fans only)Cllr

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 09:51 PM

Curious link:

http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=303371

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: GUEST,Firecat at college
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 04:44 AM

I was gtted to hear about Spike's death. As an 18 year old I amtoo young to have listened to the Goons or watched the TV programmes, but my first experence of him came with the fact that my Granny has copies of Milliganimals and Silly Verse For Kids. I have also read up to Rommel? Gunner Who? in the war memoirs, and couldn't stop laughing.

I read in the paper that somebody (I can't remember who) said, "One of the last jewels in the crown of English comedy has fallen out." Very true.

Goodbye Spike, you were a genius.

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 09:07 AM

Here's a new song for him. (The incident with the undertaker's slab is actually true.)

Spike Milligan was a mighty man,
an Irishman born on India's sod
He had a mind both rich and rare,
and he saw that the world was passing odd.
When Milligan died the world stopped still,
and we knew it must be some mistake,
for how could a man like Milligan die
when he was a man so wide awake.
Wack fol the dah, and join in the chorus,
Ying Tong Ying Tong Yiddley Po,
Isn't it the truth I tell ye -
Milligan's dead, but he'll never go.

When Milligan came to the undertakers
he jumped on the slab and he called out "shop".
And they carried coffin down to the church,
then they came to a pub and he shouted "stop".
And in for a jar and a song and a party,
in for a penny in for a pound,
with Milligan there so hale and hearty,
and all of the Goons were buying rounds.
Wack fol the dah, and join in the chorus,
Ying Tong Ying Tong Yiddley Po,
Isn't it the truth I telll ye -
Milligan's dead, but he'll never go.

And up in the church they all were weeping,
"Only 82, did you have to die",
while out of the back young Spike went creeping
with a hop and a skip and a roguish eye.
And they looked in the coffin, it was empty,
looked for the man, and he was fled,
and a note in a manner quite perempt'ry.
"I've a funny feeling that I'm not quite dead."
Wack fol the dah, and join in the chorus,
Ying Tong Ying Tong Yiddley Po,
Isn't it the truth I tell ye -
Milligan's dead, but he'll never go.

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: brid widder
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 12:35 PM

all of the above!!

I love his kids stuff such as Ode to my mother:-

If I should die think only this of me

The swine left owing us six pounds eighty p

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 07:36 AM

I'm in the happy position of being old enough to have listened to the Goon Show first time round alongside my Dad who introduced me to so much great radio humour. Here's a thing --- if the essence of comedy is timing, how cool is it to die in the week leading up to an already-scheduled Heroes of Comedy tribute programme? (tonight Channel 4 21.00 GMT)Sheer genius!

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: Fiolar
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 05:00 AM

Sincere thanks to Channel 4 who transmitted "Heroes of Comedy - Spike Milligan" on March 2nd. Watching it brought home to me what a genius the man really was. He was the one who trod uncharted territories of comedy and made the paths which so many others would follow years later. Eric Sykes summed it all up at the end by saying that he hoped they would go together as he couldn't imagine life without Spike.

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: Lanfranc
Date: 04 Mar 02 - 05:07 AM

The Goons, Flanders and Swann, Tom Lehrer, Paddy Roberts, Rambling Sid Rumpo. All were components of my youth and formative years and shaped my sense of what was humorous (as opposed to my sense of humour, which is another matter entirely!)

Only Lehrer is left, now.

Nothing I hear today comes close.

I am saddened by Spike Milligan's death, but his books and recordings are still with us, along with many manic memories.

Thanks for all that.

Alan

Subject: RE: Here's to Spike
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 04 Mar 02 - 07:08 AM

And Lehrer quit beause he thought the world just wasn't funny any more. We need to make sure it is ...