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SPAIKUS
Here are some Spaikus submitted by BBC 7 listeners>
Prize winning entries are starred
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| | Doug Owen
Spike turns in his grave,
Is that the best you can do!
It's not even funny
| | | | | Paul Prebble
Terence Milligan
Or Spike to your admirers
You really were ill
| | | | | Bill Lynn
When I was at School,
We hoped,when Milligan died,
They would repeat Q
| | | | | Paul Schofield
Henrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry!
What is it Minn?
Spikes gone.
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| Steve Martin
It was Milligan.
Who fought and thought they're all mad.
We've gorn mad again.
| | | Duncan Ross
Now he is worm food
Most will never remember
How bad Q9 was.
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| Clive Lever
What's haiku, Henry?
A Short rhyme, you silly Min!
What's LowKu, Henry?
| | | Rob Priddy
Eccles is wiv me
Yee-hee 'cos they ded-ed him
And now we are free
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| John Lewis
Thanks, dear old Spike,
Goon but never forgotten:
I laughed till I cried.
| | | Judith Towler
From black depths he mined
Sparkling words, sharp, jagged thoughts
And raw compassion
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| John Clays
Goon for a laugh say
‘ellooo Eccles’ and in a
funny voice sing name
| | | Amos How
Writing praise for Spike
In seventeen syllables
Is far too diffic
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| Bill Taylor
Spike has been deaded
Goon now, but not forgotten
I don't like this game!
| | | Bill Taylor
Haiku's inventor
Must have had seven fingers
On his middle hand
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| Nick Smith
Not so long ago
Nothing was all that funny
Thank you so much Spike.
| | | Ian Davies
O Spike, we'd all Q
Through goonish puckoonish night
For you - a spaiku!
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| Glenn Prigmore
Spike would have liked
To be reincarnated as a pike
And bit a nun on the bum
| | | David Cope
Wallop on me nut!
Spike, you made me laugh so much,
I thought life was up.
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| Mike Smith
Spike Milligan. Who?
Played trumpet, wrote books - oh, and
The Goons and Q, too.
| | | Paul Haysom
Spike spoke words of fun
It gave me pains in the tum
Now he's gone, no sun.
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| Paul Prebble
Born Nineteen Eighteen
Trilogy in seven books
Died Two Thousand Two
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