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Magrittes Pipe

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Tue Aug-10-04 06:22 PM
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Favorite Prince Philip quote!

Come on, he's got some winners! I mean, we USonians think * has a way with words -- but QEII's husband? My GOD! Sure, he's not as EVIL as the shrub, but he has a way with malapropisms that would make QUAYLE blush!

So -- what's your favorite?

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Pale_Rider

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Tue Aug-10-04 06:26 PM
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1. My fave ...

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them to pass test?
-- (Asking a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland)

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Dookus

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Tue Aug-10-04 06:27 PM
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2. this one

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

He is truly an ass of monumental proportions.

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Shakespeare

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Tue Aug-10-04 06:29 PM
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3. When he warned British students in Hong Kong...

...not to stay too long, or they'd get "all slitty-eyed."

Eddie Izzard's bit on Phillip is hysterically funny.

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HawkerHurricane

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Tue Aug-10-04 06:41 PM
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4. Give him a break!

He was in line to be King of Greece, and lost it to a revolution! I mean, you train all your life for a job and have to settle for being stud for some other country's monarch... It's just sad.

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Magrittes Pipe

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Tue Aug-10-04 06:45 PM
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6. "you train all your life for a job"

You mean like the Hurricane, before it was supplanted by the vastly superior Spitfire? :evilgrin:

EVERY DAY since I first joined DU, I have been WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT! How the mighty have fallen! The Spitfire has sealed your fate!!!!

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HawkerHurricane

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Tue Aug-10-04 06:52 PM
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7. Don't be silly.

"Hurri's" were used throughout the war. The slow production rate on early model Spitfires insured that. And they did a fine job, also. Never the best plane, but a brave one.

Should we downgrade the P-38 Lightning because the P-47 Thunderbolt was superior? Shall we mock the mighty B-17 Flying Fortress because it was outflown by the later B-24 Liberator? Shall we deny the place in history of the Fairey Swordfish because the Grumman Avenger was a much better plane?

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Magrittes Pipe

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Tue Aug-10-04 07:00 PM
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8. The P-47 was NOT better than the P-38!!!

The Mustang, sure. But the Thunderbolt never beat down the "fork-tailed devil."

And the B-24 outflew the B-17, sure. But which one could take more fire and still fly?

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HawkerHurricane

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Tue Aug-10-04 07:11 PM
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10. P-47 was...

faster, more manueverable, and better armed. The P-38 had longer range and the extra engine to get home with.

And a Hurri could take more punishment than a Spit and still fly.
But the Hurri was designed in the Mid-1930's and the Spit was designed later... and this was a time of great technological change in aircraft. Later aircraft were either better or didn't get made at all. So of course the later Spitfire was better than the Hurricane. But does this make the Hurricane useless? Or inadequate? If it was so pathetic, why did England make so dang many of them? Because even though it was 2nd best, it was still dang good.

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CanuckAmok

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Tue Aug-10-04 07:01 PM
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9. Not only that, but he was supposedly castrated by Hitler...

:tinfoilhat:

http://drakenfels.tripod.com/setephis.html

btw, here's my fav quote of his:

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
- Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh: leader of the World Wildlife Fund -

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redqueen

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Tue Aug-10-04 06:42 PM
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5. I feel so stupid

I never knew about this guy... this is unreal...

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Wed Aug-11-04 08:04 AM
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11. We don't come here [Canada] for our health.

We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Wed Aug-11-04 08:05 AM
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12. Do you still throw spears at each other?

(on meeting Aborigines in Australia)

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Wed Aug-11-04 08:05 AM
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13. If it has got four legs and it is not a chair,

if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

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liberalitch

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Wed Aug-11-04 08:35 AM
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14. if * were the same kind of royalty that PP is....

don't think he wouldn't be saying the same kind of shit if not worse.

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Wed Aug-11-04 09:10 AM
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15. To a Kenyan woman who presented him with a gift in 1984.

'You are a woman, aren't you?'

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Wed Aug-11-04 09:10 AM
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16. To a student who trekked across Papau New Guinea in 1998.

'So, you managed not to get eaten, then?'

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