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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 07:21 AM
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Prince Philip's ninety gaffes in ninety years. Liz apparently just grins and bears it.

Ninety gaffes in ninety years

From Papua New Guinea to Stoke-on-Trent, Prince Philip has left his mark around the world. As his 90th birthday looms, Hannah Ewan recalls the soundbites that could only have come from one man


4. "If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes." To 21-year-old British student Simon Kerby during a visit to China in 1986.

5. "You managed not to get eaten then?" To a British student who had trekked in Papua New Guinea, during an official visit in 1998.

6. "You can't have been here that long – you haven't got a pot belly." To a British tourist during a tour of Budapest in Hungary. 1993.

7. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

More of the same at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ninety-gaffes-in-ninety-years-2290148.html
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 07:24 AM
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1. Probably because it makes her look that much better.
I don't know.
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FLPanhandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 07:33 AM
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2. Some of those are funny
"Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

I like this one though.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 07:34 AM
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3. I think some are funny as well...
Edited on Thu Jun-02-11 07:35 AM by tammywammy
75. "They're not mating are they?" Spotting two robots bumping in to one another at the Science Museum in 2000.
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 07:54 AM
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4. Take heart, you unattached females.....
One day you too might become a duchess, even if you are an American.

53. "People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans."

:)
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 08:06 AM
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5. Very un-PC but it's hard to be outraged about this.
He's more of a colonialist throwback ignorant buffoon than a malevolent racist.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 08:37 AM
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8. Most of them seem as if he's playing on his own reputation as a buffoon, though

As a man with no official duties other than to be a prop, I get the impression he enjoys reading about "the awful thing Prince Philip said" after he says some of these things.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 08:08 AM
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6. Elizabeth is monarch of all she surveys. I doubt she cares.
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TheManInTheMac Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 08:19 AM
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7. "...grins and bears it"?
Hell, I think she's smiling because her husband has such a good sense of humor. The Brits need to lighten up.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:27 PM
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9. Sounds like a guy I'd like to knock back a couple of pints with and talk for awhile....
Bet he's a wild man when he gets liquored up!
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ikri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:45 PM
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10. Lots aren't gaffes
They're just examples of his sense of humour which is a little coarse. I think a lot of it comes from him almost playing to the crowd, he's renowned for these gaffes & I almost believe that he does try to say something crazy at each public engagement because he's expected to.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:49 PM
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11. It's a cherished British tradition
The Queen cuts the ribbons and Prince Phillip makes a tasteless comment. Everyone expects it.
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:52 PM
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12. I actually think most of them are pretty funny.
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 01:02 PM
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13. That's Monty Python material; or maybe it's just Brit humour. n/t
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 01:14 PM
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14. He gets a slam dunk on occasion
Story goes he was ragging on some foreign general about all his medals. (paraphrasing) Phil: What the hell general, your country hasn't won any wars lately. General: True enough, sir, but I didn't have to knock up my wife to get any of mine.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:54 PM
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15. 16. "It's a vast waste of space" .. in 2000 at the .. new .. British Embassy in Berlin ...
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