Spike Milligan also parodied the opening of the poem:

Spike goes to a seedy bar, drinks heavily, and goes onstage to recite a poem that he originally recited in 1880.

* Spike takes Angel's advice to " live the day as if it were his last " quite literally, as the poem he reads is a completed form of the poem that was originally read on his last day before being sired by Drusilla.

* When Spike says, " What's a word that means ' glowing '... gotta rhyme ," it is an allusion to the episode " Fool for Love " in which Spike, in a flashback as a human, was trying to think of a word that rhymes with " gleaming " for a poem he was writing on the night he was turned into a vampire.

* The poem snatched from William's hands and read out loud ( to public ridicule ) is a portion of the same poem that Spike later reads ( in its complete form ) at the open-mic event in the series finale of Angel " Not Fade Away.

Price said that should she be granted disposition of Coleman's remains, she planned to scatter the ashes at the Golden Spike National Historic Site in Utah as a tribute to his lifelong love of trains.

When he was in junior high and high school, Spiegel hung out at Bethesda Community Store, where the former owner Mike Henderson gave him his nickname " Spike Jonze " in reference to Spike Jones.

There is a plaque and bench located at the Wadestown Library, Wellington New Zealand in an area called " Spike Milligan Corner ".

* Spike Milligan with Jeremy Taylor: An Adult Entertainment Live at Cambridge University ( 1974 )

At the ceremony for the driving of the Golden spike | " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869

Opened for through traffic on May 10, 1869, with the driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, the road established a mechanized transcontinental transportation network that revolutionized the population and economy of the American West.

The Last Spike by Thomas Hill ( 1881 ) Six years after the groundbreaking, laborers of the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad from the east met at Promontory Summit, Utah.

It was here on May 10, 1869, that Stanford drove The Last Spike ( or golden spike ) which is now on display at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, that joined the rails of the transcontinental railroad.

( A second " Lost " Golden Spike is also on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

In June 2012, Chris Coghill, the writer of the new film which is set during the Stone Roses 1990 Spike Island show, revealed that the band “ have at least three or four new tracks recorded .”

The Stone Roses ' outdoor concert at Spike Island in Widnes on 27 May 1990 was attended by some 27, 000 people.

The Roses followed Spike Island with another big event, at Glasgow Green.

Also, in keeping with the show's themes of redemption and moral ambiguity, Willow, Angel, Spike, Faith, Giles, Anya, and Andrew have at some point in their lives descended into darkness.

Hannigan noted the inconsistent standards with the other relationships on the show: " you've got Spike and Harmony just going at it like rabbits, so it's very hypocritical ".

Forced to take a mundane and degrading job slinging burgers at the Doublemeat Palace, she begins suffering from extreme depression and self-loathing, embarking on a violent sexual relationship with the vampire Spike which leaves neither satisfied and spawns dire consequences for the both of them.

This short, along with a few of McCracken's No Neck Joe shorts, was selected to be shown at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in 1994.

* The rails of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " were joined on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.

During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.

He was noted for killing two vampire Slayers ; one at the end of the 1800s during the Boxer Rebellion, the other in 1970s New York, where Spike acquired his trademark leather duster.

Notably, Spike's first act in Sunnydale is to attack Buffy and a large group of people at her school, making his first appearance the deadliest of any of Buffys " Big Bads ", as he very nearly kills Buffy, but Buffy's mother distracts Spike long enough for Buffy to recover.

Spike displays unabashed grief after Buffy dies in the showdown with Glory, Spike honors her memory by remaining loyal to the Scoobies, fighting at their side and serving the role of baby-sitter / older brother / protector to Dawn, helping Willow and Tara to raise her in Buffy's absence.

She gets drunk with Spike, and calls him " a neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.

* Spike is the bar located at the new Twenty Ten course clubhouse.

Cliff and Donald sometimes frequented The Velvet Spike, a local gay club / bar.

Buffy and Spike take the girls to a demon bar to explain the art of getting information out of the demonic patrons there.

In a story entirely devoid of dialogue, Spike picks up a woman at a bar, walks her home, and feeds on her, leaving her dead on her own doorstep.

Meanwhile at Willy's bar, Spike is badly beaten by demons for associating with the Slayer.

In ‘ Stray Dog Strut ’ the final fight between Spike and Hakim is influenced by Bruce Lee ’ s Game of Death while in ‘ Waltz for Venus ’, Spike ’ s kung fu lesson is eerily similar to a scene from Lee ’ s Enter the Dragon.

The series ' final two arcs are in some sense are about Buffy's relationships with Angel and Spike.

In the days and hours leading up to the final showdown with Glory, Spike fights by Buffy's side, earning her trust and a re-invitation to her house.

In the final battle inside the Hellmouth, Spike, wearing a mystical amulet, sacrifices himself to destroy the Turok-Han and close the Hellmouth.

Despite his apparent death at the end of Buffys final season, Spike returns in the fifth and final season of the spin-off series Angel.

) During the final episodes of Angel, Spike is the first to vote for Angel's plan to wound the Senior Partners by massacring the Circle of the Black Thorn.

* The anime series Cowboy Bebop has many references to the film series, including the last fight between Spike and Vicious in the episode " The Real Folk Blues ( Part 2 )" which parallels the final shoot out in " A Better Tomorrow 2 ".

" Giles believes that Buffy kept Spike around for personal reasons rather than tactical ones ; this is confirmed when she talks to Spike the night before the final battle under the Hellmouth.

Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep Canvas-pioneering Tarzan, Best Picture-winner American Beauty, critically acclaimed animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2 and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film Being John Malkovich, M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit The Sixth Sense, the controversial Fight Club, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and the first installment of George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy were released this year.

During the weeks between the series finale of Buffy and the Season 5 premiere of Angel, Lindsey McDonald makes an off-screen trip to the crater and digs up the amulet worn by Spike in the final battle.

* Eggers can be heard talking with Spike Jonze during " The Horrible Fanfare / Landslide / Exoskeleton ", the final track on Beck's 2006 album The Information.

In the fall of 2009, Spike showed live Australian rugby league semi finals games from the National Rugby League and also showed the grand final, as David Niu tried to bring professional rugby league ( National Rugby League USA ) to the United States.

Spike TV planned to bring the show back with the final remaining episodes on August 20, 2004, but instead delayed the series once again, and cancelled the series in early July 2003.

The " Golden Spike " ( aka " The Last Spike ") is the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.

The final joining of the rails spanning the continent was signified by the driving of the ceremonial Golden Spike.

Yet Mandela informed director Spike Lee that he could not utter the famous final phrase " by any means necessary " on camera fearing that the apartheid government would use it against him if he did.

" Her wish is granted when the Senior Partners send their army against the surviving members of Angel's team ; Illyria joins Angel, Gunn, and Spike in the final battle against the Senior Partners.

After a lengthy hiatus, Bubba, D-Von, and Spike made what would be their final appearance at a WWE sanctioned event, when they were a part of the original One Night Stand in June 2005.

The First was defeated as Buffy, Faith, Spike and the Potential Slayers made a final assault against The First's Army of Turok-Hun inside the Hellmouth.

In that year Pratt published Towards the Last Spike, his final epic, on the building of Canada's first transcontinental railroad, the Canadian Pacific Railway.

In September 2000, Blum voiced the role of TOM, the robotic host of Toonami shown on Cartoon Network ( replacing Sonny Strait ), as the second through 4th incarnations of the character right up to the block's cancellation on September 20, 2008 delivering the final lines uttered on the block, echoing his early role of Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel, to recent revival of the block on May 27, 2012.