"You can't get the wood, you know."

Yes, should be required reading for everybody. funny and touching, and learn about the 2nd world war from the point of an ordinary person, not "i sat on a hill and ordered 30 thousand people to run at the enemy then went back for drinks".

Now can somebody please release all his "Q" series + "There's a lot of it about" on DVD - unedited? Get sick of going into stores and seeing like box sets of some crappy old childrens programme and this work langishes in vaults.

"Absolutely" the sketch comedy show is finally coming out on DVD after many years of harrasment from fans - and they run their own production company!

He did tell everybody he was ill but nobody listens whenever they are mad and/or bad.

"There's no such thing as anything, and sometimes even less!" ..... Thanks for the Memory, Spike, and now to Prove IT.

Here's a page of Real dDeep Titters .... http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Spike_Milligan

Smile and the world smiles with you ....and probably also thinks that you're Quite Mad?

[Drunken Canadian officer]- Can you play 'The Maple Leaf Forever'?

[Milligan, playing in dance band] No sir: after half an hour, our drummer's arms get tired.

Here's a song that I recall,

My mother sang to me.

She sang it when she tucked me in,

When I was nine-teee-threee...

Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone iddle eye po

Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone iddle eye po

Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone Ringtone iddle eye po

Repeat adwords infinitum...

Your friends company's future is now assured!

...he'd tried everything, he'd even been to the bank.

"Don't be a fool, father", they said, "put that gun down!"

And many, many more.

One of my all-time favourite poems.

Also, getting on for 10 years ago now, the Grauniad's cryptic crossword had one of the most magnificent clues I've ever seen: the answer was the whole poem, spread over about 5 or 6 lines, but the clue was an anagram and paraphrase of the entire thing. Truly a thing of wonder :)

@Richard:

I agree with Chris Simmons - you are an evil bastard.

...Funny, though...!

OTOH - @Chris Simmons:

I don't care for baboons. "Try one of my chimpanzees; they're milder."

I've heard that this won't be available until Q5

[On the set of the 1973 film "The Three Musketeers"]

Oliver Reed: "Why do people take an instant dislike to me?"

Spike: "It saves time."

(he said, failing to notice that he had fallen down.)