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8 de ago. de 2024 · The Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor Spike Milligan is buried in the churchyard of St Thomas the Martyr, which dates from at least 1215. His epitaph, written in Gaelic, reads: ‘I told you I was ill.'
Há 4 dias · The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg.
13 de ago. de 2024 · The Irish phrase is "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite", or 'I told you I was sick'. The diocese of Chichester would not allow his grave to be marked with the sentence in English as he originally wanted.
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Há 4 dias · 24 Spike Milligan’s finale: to be ill NAIL A charade of N for the final letter of ‘Milligan’ and AIL, and surely making reference to the epitaph on Milligan’s gravestone, which has the inscription (in Gaelic) ‘I told you I was ill’.
The opening line is a reference to widespread rumours that Adolf Hitler had monorchism ("one ball" meaning one testicle).The second and third lines similarly attack Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring and SS chief Heinrich Himmler by suggesting they had microorchidism ("very small" testicles). [6]
29 de jul. de 2024 · Mental illness loomed large in Spike’s life after the Second World War, but he was the first to admit that it was also his principal source of creative inspiration. He once said…… ‘The best scripts I wrote were when I was ill … It took that much out of me.’