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Category: Spike Milligan

Busty’ Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.

With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate.

R.I.P.Tom Conlon O’Rourke.Not Dead, just Sleeping.

humour, puckoon

The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all.

humour, puckoon

After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it

On the Ning Nang NongWhere the Cows go Bong!And the Monkeys all say Boo!Theres a Nang Nong NingWhere the trees go Ping!And the tea pots Jibber Jabber JooOn the Nong Ning NangAll the Mice go Clang!And you just cant catch em when they do!So its Ning Nang Nong!Cows go Bong!Nong Nang Ning!Trees go Ping!Nong Ning Nang!The mice go Clang!What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!

humour, on-the-ning-nang-nong, silly-verse

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush

Said Hamlet to Ophelia,I’ll draw a sketch of thee.What kind of pencil shall I use?2B or not 2B?

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

death, life, puckoon

(On his gravestone): “I told you I was ill”.

comedy, death, illness

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

death, life, puckoon