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Oh Christ, the cook is dead

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Shaun Usher
Apr 16, 2021
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Spike Milligan was born on this day in 1918. He wrote countless letters during his 83 years, many of them “of note,” and Spike is connected to more than a couple of my favourite anecdotes about correspondence. Such as the time he asked his manager and dear friend Norma Farnes to send a telegram on his behalf to paranoid friend and fellow Goon Peter Sell…

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