<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_13773">Pat Ladd and I had some off list fun after he'd picked up on an allusion from me to the line from the humourist Beachcomber,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_13774" dir="ltr">revived by Spike Milligan (or Milligna, the well-known typographical error) with his impersonation of <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_14351">"Dr. Strabismus, whom God preserve, of Utrecht ...."</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_14274"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_14350">The one jazz reference I recall from Milligan's Beachcomber involved Milligan with his trumpet, in shiny black tie and a yet shinier suit, dating from before Milligan's birth-year of 1918, about to be lowered into a large glass tank two or three metres deep, and declaring in an accent which might well be described as "foreign" (in any country you cared to mention) <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"immedgine I am Louiss Armschtrong, on ze deck of ze Tightennic..."</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_14348">ah, the profundities! <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_14275">A great lad and a great Ladd and my condolences to family and thanks where they belong for a very warm all too brief acquaintance!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_14330"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_14349">Robert R. Calder <br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_13434" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_13433"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484499834925_13432"><br> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>