Let's Have A Milliganathon!

[Malachite]

...as it's the late great man's 100th birthday!

Tis due to pigeons that alight
On Nelsons's hat that makes it white.

[ChillDoubt]

My favourite is from one of his books, when in the concert party he recalls wearing a short jacket which he believed made him look very dapper.
A colleague asked: Why are you wearing that?
Milligan: Cab Calloway wears one.
Colleague: He must be a c#%*

Priceless!

[david small]

A tortured soul, with comedic genius.

[bookbinder]

The only thing to follow all that is:
niddle, naddle, noo, folks!

[Patsy33]

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

[Malachite]

One of my childhood heroes.
I still have my "Silly Verse For Kids" "A Book Of Milliganimals" and "A Dustbin Of Milligan" from my childhood, all a bit dog-eared and yellow in the pages now.
I Loved the stories too eg. "The Bald-Headed Twit Lion".
Any more?

[atalanta]

It wasn't " I left my shoes and socks there. . . ." It was "I left my vest and socks there - I wonder if they're dry."
But how about
" There's little oles up in the sky,
"that's where the rain gets in.
"They're only ever such little oles,
"that's why the rain is thin."

[atalanta]

"What are you doing there, soldier ?"
"Well everyone's got to be somewhere, sir !"

[kvalidir]

He was clearly very clever and very amusing and I've read a couple of his books, but I can't quite detach myself from what a thoroughly unpleasant person he seemed to be alongside his fellow Goon Peter Sellers, so I quite shy away form his work. I appreciate he suffered from mental illness but even so he made his first wife's life a total misery, along with a good few others.

[Tilly2]

There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in
But they're ever so small
That's why the rain is thin.