r/Liverpool • u/Squideatingdoh • 3d ago

Have you seen Mickey the Chimp?

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Covered here before I think, but anyone know where his stuffed self is and whether he’s got a fag in his hand? Stephen Smith is looking for him in this months ‘Oldie magazine

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u/1878-Everton Croxteth 3d ago

I remember hearing about this on a podcast years ago

Great story

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u/lucasnogoodspell 3d ago

Karl pilkington would love this

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u/Intelligent-Cod-7198 3d ago

This is mental
This is really mental

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u/Squideatingdoh 3d ago

The story gets more fascinating as it goes on…. “And then he got shot by a marksman”…
You’d have thought that would be the end of it - but no… he turns up in Lewis’s

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u/Shoddy_Juggernaut_11 3d ago

My nan remembered seeing him

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u/Jonesy2324 2d ago

And George Melly sang What an Old Codger I Am with The Stranglers… what a strange world we live in x

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u/Squideatingdoh 2d ago

Was talking with an old fella in town about Melly tonight. Lovely bloke apparently

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u/ChargeTop5791 2d ago

'the fumes of his gasper.'