"Carol- off to check out the Indiaman site and to learn more of Spike Milligan and John Sullivan the boxer."   Hopefully you will have discovered some of Spikes zany humour, particularly his poetry by now Carol, he chose his own epitaph which was eventualy inscribed on his gravestone in Gaelic; "Duirt me leat go ruich me breoite" (I told you I was ill) So at the risk of having by hand slapped by Aunty Cara from the Land of Downside Uppermost, here's a tribute to this brilliant man in an attempt of his own style;   ODE TO A SHARPENED STICK Boy Oh boy Wasn’t he a joy? Mad mad clever man. Of Indian birth And Erin’s mirth Paddy Guru Milligan