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30 Dec 00 - 06:57 AM (#365550) Subject: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Fiolar 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 |
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30 Dec 00 - 07:52 AM (#365565) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: GUEST,CraigS To paraphrase the words of Sir Harry Secombe - "Yet another pillock of society". |
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30 Dec 00 - 07:59 AM (#365566) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: okthen About time too,can't wait to hear what he has to say about it. cheers bill |
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30 Dec 00 - 08:31 AM (#365580) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Manitas 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. |
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30 Dec 00 - 10:15 AM (#365612) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Peter T. "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!!!!" |
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30 Dec 00 - 10:27 AM (#365627) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: zander (inactive) Milligan is more Irish than the Irish. [ He took his fathers nationality ]IRISH You dirty rotten swine you, Dave |
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30 Dec 00 - 11:41 AM (#365668) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Abby Sale As advertised: see Click here |
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30 Dec 00 - 11:52 AM (#365674) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Rick Fielding Well it's ABOUT TIME! Do you play the saxophone Bill? Rick |
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30 Dec 00 - 12:39 PM (#365702) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Roger in Sheffield 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!! |
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30 Dec 00 - 01:47 PM (#365734) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: McGrath of Harlow 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... |
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30 Dec 00 - 01:57 PM (#365736) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Bernard 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!! |
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30 Dec 00 - 02:29 PM (#365751) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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30 Dec 00 - 02:42 PM (#365758) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Dave (the ancient mariner) What an honour to Get Knotted by the Queen. Well done Neddy .. Your old pal Gryptypethynne |
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30 Dec 00 - 02:59 PM (#365766) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Morticia 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. |
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30 Dec 00 - 03:05 PM (#365770) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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31 Dec 00 - 05:35 AM (#366099) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Fiolar 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. |
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31 Dec 00 - 02:02 PM (#366290) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: McGrath of Harlow Irish national = Irish citizen. No matter where you live. |
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31 Dec 00 - 02:14 PM (#366307) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Gervase 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... |
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31 Dec 00 - 06:03 PM (#366450) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Den 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:-) |
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31 Dec 00 - 06:11 PM (#366453) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Den 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 |
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31 Dec 00 - 11:16 PM (#366584) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Son of the Mill 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. |
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01 Jan 01 - 06:31 AM (#366652) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: McGrath of Harlow 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... |
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01 Jan 01 - 06:52 AM (#366655) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: okthen 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 |
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01 Jan 01 - 04:22 PM (#366823) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Linda Kelly Apparently Spikes first word's on hearing the news were 'Help'. Anyway well done to a true genius of comedy.
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01 Jan 01 - 04:31 PM (#366824) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Rick Fielding Bill, did you get your BADGE? And did you run off with my WINEGUMS? Rick |
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01 Jan 01 - 11:46 PM (#366954) Subject: RE: 'Sir' Spike Milligan From: Seamus Kennedy 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 |