Spike Milligan
Who is Spike Milligan
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born in British Colonial India, where he spent his childhood, relocating in 1931 to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg.Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the characters Eccles and Minnie Bannister. He was the earliest-born and last surviving member of the Goons. Milligan parlayed success with The Goon Show int...
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Spike Milligan Poems
- Scorflufus
There are many diseases,
That strike people's kneeses,
Scorflufus! is one by name
It comes from the East
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- Mirror, Mirror
A young spring-tender girl
combed her joyous hair
'You are very ugly' said the mirror.
But,
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- The Dog Lovers
So they bought you
And kept you in a
Very good home
Cental heating
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- There Are Holes In The Sky
There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in
But they're ever so small
That's why the rain is thin....
- I Must Go Down To The Sea Again
I must go down to the sea again,
to the lonely sea and the sky;
I left my shoes and socks there -
I wonder if they're dry?...
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- Catman_rilea: spike milligan - grovelling bastard
- Ayeupbradford: bard, write a poem in the style of spike milligan about a man with one eye and a seagull.
a man with one eye and a seagull
sat on a rock,
the seagull said,
"what do you lack?"
the man said,
"i lack an eye."
the seagull said,
"i lack an eye too."
1/n
- Ayeupbradford: chatgpt, write a poem in the style of spike milligan about a man with one eye and a seagull.
there once was a man with one eye, and a seagull that loved to fly high, they'd wander along the shore, where the waves would endlessly roar.
4/n
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