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SPAIKUS
Here are some Spaikus submitted by BBC 7 listeners
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| | Russell Kenny
Manic Depression,
Was always in the shadows,
What a funny thing.
| | | | | shaun lawrence
Spike Milligan, dead.
No more Ning Nang Nong, Spike's gone, To heaven instead
| | | | | Simon Evans
in milligan red
sad man makes spon all clanky
"Those are not my knees"
| | | | | PMark Hopkins
Never minced his words,
Prince Charles would know about that,
What was it he said!?!
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| Guy Chapman
Madness and brilliance
Spectacularly combined
Tortured genius
| | | Mike Mercury
Ciao, Spine Millington,
Is it ever this quiet
In the Ning Nang Nong?
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| Iain Lill
He's wearing a Cambridge tie,
What was he doing at Cambridge?
Buying a tie.
| | | Graham Coulson
David Dickinson -
Like a drawing Spike would do...
Without the humour.
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| Patrick Kiernan
Spike, you manic man,
You turned the world upside down,
Goon not forgotten.
| | | Jeff Blythin
Oh the ouzlam
like spine milligan the spelling mistake
is gone arf.
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| Max Wright
Everybody has to be somewhere
Was one of your lines
But where are you now dear Spike ?
| | | Paul Prebble
Mister Milligan
What are we gonna do now?
Now you are not here?
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| Paul Winalski
Oh, ying tong ying tong,
Ying tong ying tong iddle-i po...
FX: EXPLOSION
| | | Jase
Spike's paddling padded
Lice along my hair parting,
I do not approve.
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| Andy Knap
In the beginning -
Spike showed how mad could be sane.
What do we do now?
| | | John Lynam
'After Morecambe' (followed by Milligan)
Hormones!
I'd love to grab your well-turned ankles,
But my arms are too short.
NB: Line 1 to be read in the voice of Eric Morecambe; lines 2 and 3 to be read in the voice of Spike.
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| Barbara Kearns
You called your great friend
A grovelling little bastard.
Got away with it!
| | | Simon Anthony
The man with the jokes-
was unhapily caught in-
the wars of his time.
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| Aliya Whiteley
Spike was not spiky
And now he also won't be
Getting ill again.
| | | Barnes Howe
Spike, gone near from us
reified our cosmic night;
but, for you, no 's'.
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| Sue Reaney
Comic genious,
Goon, but never forgotten,
Our laughter lives on
| | | James Shields
Hitler's downfall would
surely naer have come about
without good old Spike
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| Douglas Spencer
Spike buried at sea?
"He's fallen in the water!"
Goon, not forgotten.
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