'Sir' Spike Milligan

Subject: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Fiolar
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 06:57 AM

Spike Milligan has been knighted in the New Years Honours list. It is however an honorary title as Spike is an Irish citizen. Congratulations Eccles. M

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: GUEST,CraigS
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 07:52 AM

To paraphrase the words of Sir Harry Secombe - "Yet another pillock of society".

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: okthen
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 07:59 AM

About time too,can't wait to hear what he has to say about it.

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Manitas
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 08:31 AM

Are you sure he is an Irish citizen? As I understood it he was born in India (Poona?) and raised in South London. I think he took out Australian citizenship for a while but I've never heard that he was an Irish Citizen.

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Peter T.
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 10:15 AM

"It's a simple ceremony, Seagoon, the queen taps you on both shoulders with a sword, and if she likes you, you rise up a knight!"

"And if she doesn't?"

"She doesn't lift the sword between taps."

"I don't want to know that!!!!"

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: zander (inactive)
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 10:27 AM

Milligan is more Irish than the Irish. [ He took his fathers nationality ]IRISH You dirty rotten swine you, Dave

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Abby Sale
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 11:41 AM

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Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 11:52 AM

Well it's ABOUT TIME!

Do you play the saxophone Bill?

Rick

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 12:39 PM

Could some one confirm or deny a favourite childhood memory of mine. I seem to remember one episode of the Q(?) series in which for no apparent reason a woman ascends and descends hanging on to a bell rope during a sketch. I am sure this was the first time I had seen naked female breasts on british TV or were my hormones making me hallucinate?

Roger, just curious!!

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 01:47 PM

If you've got a grandparent born in Ireland, you've the right to be an Irish citizen. It's very handy when the Football World Cup comes round...

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Bernard
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 01:57 PM

I once had an interesting discussion with Spike where he suggested a circular piano would be great so that one could play the opening of Grieg's A minor Piano Concerto without stopping...

Does your Granny wear a bowler? Sidesaddle!!

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 02:29 PM

Read his books, he is Irish and bloody proud of it! Although it should correctly read that he has Irish Nationality, rather than being a citizen, that would imply he lives there, when in fact he lives in the UK and Australia, mostly.

Our own Morticia has had the honour of sitting at a regimental dinner with him, I suspect it ended up getting raucous.

LTS

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 02:42 PM

What an honour to Get Knotted by the Queen. Well done Neddy .. Your old pal Gryptypethynne

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Morticia
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 02:59 PM

It wasn't a regimental dinner, it was lunch at the BBC but it was fun and I couldn't be more pleased, although I suspect he will take the piss remorselessly.

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Dec 00 - 03:05 PM

Oops, sorry, remembered wrongly, but what the hell! I suspect she gave it him BECAUSE he called her No.1 son a grovelling little bastard - the only truly funny moment in that whole (allegedly) comedy awards programme.... I would certainly hope so!

LTS

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Fiolar
Date: 31 Dec 00 - 05:35 AM

To Dave - sorry, "Neddy" was Harry Secombe who is already knighted. Does anyone remember the great Milligan monologue "Another One" where he reads out a list of what appears to be the oddest articles ever conceived by the mind of man. Great stuff.

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Dec 00 - 02:02 PM

Irish national = Irish citizen. No matter where you live.

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Gervase
Date: 31 Dec 00 - 02:14 PM

A marvellous man - he shot a little shit at my school in the arse with an airgun for crapping in his garden! Heck, this is getting like six rashers of Kevin Bacon or whatever the game is...

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Den
Date: 31 Dec 00 - 06:03 PM

Now, now, McGrath that was under the influence of Jack Charlton...but wouldn't the England team just kill for the citizenship of Roy Keane. Den:-)

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Den
Date: 31 Dec 00 - 06:11 PM

Woops. Forgot to mention Spike. One of my favourite people in all the world...whatever nationality he claims. I recently saw a show about Harry Secombe called "The Trouble with Harry." Milligan comes to visit and the banter is great. They wander inside Harry's house and Secombe asks Spike to play the piano. There is a beautiful grand piano in the room covevered with framed pictures. Milligan quips first off I'm going to play these pictures. Absolutly brilliant. He made me laugh out loud, uncontollably on an Ulster bus, while reading Adolf Hitler my Part in his Downfall. Den

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Son of the Mill
Date: 31 Dec 00 - 11:16 PM

I have a LP set of Spike & Jerry Taylor live. One of the songs I love is Spikes entry to the new Australian National Anthem. 20,000 entries were submited.None were ecepted. Here it is. Australia, Australia, We think of you each day. Australia, Australia, at wo-o-ok & at play. We think of you in the morning & in the evening to. We even wake up at midnight, so we can think of you. Australia, Australia,we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part. Cheers Mal.

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 06:31 AM

I alway remember the time he sang "Germans have a sense of hu-umour, Ja, Ja, Ja, Ja, Ja, Ja-a, Ja..." to the German National Anthem. I can't ever hear it now without hearing those words in my head...

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: okthen
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 06:52 AM

Sorry for thread creep, but McGraths comment- I can't think of the German National anthem without singing

"Coughs and sneezes spread diseases,catch them in your handkerchieves" I know it was Hancock

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 04:22 PM

Apparently Spikes first word's on hearing the news were 'Help'. Anyway well done to a true genius of comedy.

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 04:31 PM

Bill, did you get your BADGE? And did you run off with my WINEGUMS?

Rick

Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 11:46 PM

Ah, justice at last! "A giant road-crushing pantechnicon bearing German trade plates pulled to a hissing Wagnerian hydraulic halt; the logo on its side said: Von Eidelberger's Cornish Pasties, Like Mum Makes." From "The Looney" - absolutely hilarious.

All the best.

Seamus