Your autobiography title......?

[CharlieOneSix]

Whilst walking the dog and listening to Radio 2 earlier, they had an item which asked "What would you call your autobiography?" So what would you call yours - or have you already written it.

Mine might be a sentence from one of my first Royal Navy reports - FD2 will recall the Flimsy, a summary of the salient points of Form S.206 Officers' Confidential Report - we never saw the original report. It was called a Flimsy due to the small and thin poor quality paper it was typed on. So a first stab at my autobiography title would be :
" A Rather Scruffy Officer".

What would yours be?

[TheGreenGoblin]

"Babelas in Bapsfontein, die eienaardige geskiedenis van 'n Suid Afrikanse boemelaar!"

[boing]

I have a brief autobiography title from one of my reports, "High marks for initiative nil for tact".

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[Opsboi]

"I'll get round to writing it eventually"

[EA01]

I'd like it to be "Wow!, That was one helluva ride!".....but more likely to be "What went on there!?"

[tango15]

Well I wrote a sort of autobiography a few years ago, detailing some of the trials and tribulations of selling aluminium tubes around the world. I couldn't come up with a suitable title, but the publisher did. He called it 'Wings For Sale'.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Well I wrote a sort of autobiography a few years ago, detailing some of the trials and tribulations of selling aluminium tubes around the world. I couldn't come up with a suitable title, but the publisher did. He called it 'Wings For Sale'.

"Tubular Sells!" surely <<don't call you Shirley! Ok>>

[jimtherev]

Looked at this thread and found it surprisingly difficult to answer. "I told you I was ill" pace Milligan doesn't quite seem to fit.
I may be back.

[Undried Plum]

From Land To Sea, Via The Sky

[Opsboi]

"I told you I was ill" pace Milligan

I never thought that was clever since he said it on Parkie a good 5 years earlier

A horrible man, for what it's worth

[boing]

Read his book "Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs)" and the part where he was trapped under German 88mm fire in an exposed bunker, you may have more sympathy. PTSD had not been discovered then.

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[TheGreenGoblin]

Read his book "Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs)" and the part where he was trapped under German 88mm fire in an exposed bunker, you may have more sympathy. PTSD had not been discovered then.

Your point is well made. I suspect his issue was also exacerbated by a natural proclivity to manic depression as well. My favourite anecdote about him was when he took to his room, on the first floor of the house in London, refusing to speak his wife.

Once, when [he and first wife June] weren’t on speaking terms he locked himself in his room. Then he picked up the phone in his bedroom and sent her a telegram.

‘In those days, telegrams often meant something disastrous, so June must have thought the worst when she saw the telegraph boy. She tore it open — and the ­telegram said: “I would like a boiled egg, two slices of toast and a cup of tea. Thank you very much. I’m upstairs. Spike.” ’

His mistress Liz Cowley told that story so it "must" be true!

He did try and commit suicide on the boat back from Australia once, taking an overdose of sleeping pills. It was a serious attempt and he would have died had it not been for the doctor, he had been playing cards with earlier in the evening, dropping by to pay him his winnings, and finding him and saving his life.

I remember seeing Spike Milligan at the Baxter theatre in Rosebank in the days when British artists didn't perform in South Africa due to the Equity boycott, which he ignored, and stunned the audience by beating an effigy of PW Botha with a baseball bat, much in the way a drunken Mexican might beat a piñata, thereby making far more of an impression than the boycott had ever made.

A complex man, with a mad genius, which was probably very hard to deal with, for his loved ones.

[Hydromet]

"Bloody Little Waster." Pretty much the last words my father said to me before he died. To be fair, he was probably right, and he didn't know he was going to have the big heart attack a couple of hours later.

[Opsboi]

"Bloody Little Waster." Pretty much the last words my father said to me before he died. To be fair, he was probably right, and he didn't know he was going to have the big heart attack a couple of hours later.

Wow...

Luckily my old man was the sweetest guy you could ever have met, but I have a couple of mates whose Dads were of the same cut as yours

It didn't stop them loving the old boy, but they didn't much like him

I loved mine, but better still, I really, really liked him