Even in death, comic genius Spike Milligan has raised a laugh among his adoring fans. Two years after he died aged 83, relatives of the Goon Show creator have erected a headstone on his grave bearing the star’s epitaph: I told you I was ill
. But only those well versed in Gaelic will be able to read the inscriptions — Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite
— on the Celtic cross memorial at St Thomas’s Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex — via Die Puny Humans
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