Spike Milligan - The Lord's Prayer

Epilogue from Q - The Reverend Joseph Stenkely Vicar by appointment Her Majesty's Forces

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• spike
• milligan
• goons
• british
• comedy

[KungfuCow5]

What language is that?

[gr00ved]

@KungfuCow5 It's finest military English :)

[allgodsaredead]

You may all be mistaken. He has, as yet, no tombstone. His family is still fighting over his estate and his plot is currently unmarked except for a small numbered peg, according to a recent newspaper article on bitter estate family wars. sorry I can't state the source. I may be wrong as the information was second hand and unless I see it with my own eyes I never believe anything.

[gr00ved]

If you Google for 'spike milligan headstone' then you'll find a few articles about it - most notably the BBC feature from May 2004 with a photograph of the stone :-)

[JesusSuckedGayPenis]

@TonyTheDriver100 They weren't allowed to use bad language back then, and I'd know, I've got it written on a piece of paper.

[dexterccf2]

@wasp27 i know a couple who still do :P

[MrDaiseymay]

Thats what he would call--'Military Mate' speak. A lot of his humour came from his experience in the army--and the unbelievable cock-ups and stupidity, of the 'officer class'. These knob'eads are not so prevelant these days, because you have to prove SOME inteligence, and not simply know some high up, who went to 'YOUR' school ,and so automatically get promotion. (Thinks---Eccles ? yeaarrh ! Do YOU know how we captured a third of the world--I Don't know--How did we capture a third of the world-

[sendanor]

I think Spike had his revenge finally over his own sergeant bigmouths when he served in WW 2!!!! heehee.....MAA.....AAARCHH YOU SILLY DOORKNOBS!!!!!

[sarabower1]

After drinking too much at Highgrove Spike Milligan passed out in the washroom on the floor. He insisted a plague be screwed into the floor that states

"Spike Milligan slept here"

[captainlucozade]

@allgodsaredead He does have one and he has (in gaelic) "I told you I was ill"... its one of the most famous tombstones in the world!!!!

[rrtodd95]

@fairhillnorrie yes, the man was golden right up to the end

[conanhayle]

@allgodsaredead...............­. he has a nice headstone in a church in Winchelsea east sussex

[fairhillnorrie]

@rrtodd95 is that true??

[rrtodd95]

@allgodsaredead He has a tombstone, it's engraved with the epithet, "I told you I was Ill".

[wasp27]

@KungfuCow5 Old-style British Army Sargeant Major! (yes they actually used to give orders like that!)