Posted on 06/09/2011 12:02:59 PM PDT by submarinerswife
STATE VISITS
‘Do you still throw spears at each other?’ To Aboriginal leader William Brin, 2002.
‘You managed not to get eaten then?’ To a British student who was trekking in Papua New Guinea
EUROPE
‘I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.’ In 1967, when asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.
SCOTLAND
‘How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?’ To a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.
CHINA
‘If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes.’ To a British student on a visit to China in 1986.
WOMEN
‘Ah, so this is feminist corner then.’ To a group of female Labour MPs
‘You are a woman, aren’t you?’ To a Kenyan woman in 1984, after accepting a state gift.
‘When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.’
CELEBRITY
‘What do you gargle with — pebbles?’ To Tom Jones, after the Royal Variety Performance, 1969. He later added: ‘It is very difficult at all to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs.’
ON FOOD & DRINK
‘Get me a beer. I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer!’ On being offered fine Italian wines by Prime Minister Giuliano Amato at a dinner in Rome in 2000.
ON CLASS & MONEY
‘People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.’ In 2000.
‘Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.’ Said at the height of the recession in 1981.
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“‘When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.’ “
How is this a gaffe? This is hilarious! (and true!)
“Gaffes?” I think he full on knows exactly what he’s saying.
He says them as he sees them. Gaffes come from Teleprompters.
He and the late Queen Mum could probably compete for the most outspoken Royal.
I wish we had a leader with half the bluntness of either one of them.
When asked about Prince Charles: “There’s no way that twit came from my loins!”
How closely was he related to Tzar Nicky's family? Close enough that when the Russians finally dug up the bodies a sample of Prince Philip's DNA was used to verify their identity.
That is just awesome.
Freegards
Prince Philip served in the Royal Navy during WW11 - aboard HMS Valiant.
Very funny. Thanks!
It’s amazing what happens when you live to 90! When he was younger, he was a pretty unpopular member of the royal family. Now, he darling old Pip, I guess. Maybe there’s hope for Princess Anne.
This man and I must be related somehow.
On the other hand, Philip’s bad treatment of Prince Charles is said to have been responsible for that nut’s problems.
Unfortunately, his handsomeness was not passed to his children, except for the youngest -- Edward.
“Oh I get it, not being PC is considered a gaffe.”
So Biden’s gaffes aren’t really gaffes at all looking at them from a Leftist, PC point of view!
He could have treated Charles badly just as a result of his being such a dolt. Charles, that is. Hard to be a manly man and war veteran and raise such a turd, I would think.
I think the guy is creepy with his dreams of culling the population...
“I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.”
-Foreword to Fleur Cowles, If I Were an Animal
Hadn't heard that story. I do know that he was VERY hard on both Diana and Sarah. Of course, in the later stages of their marriages, they probably deserved it.
I remember the story of Sarah, who was lonely after the birth of the 2nd daughter and wanted to see Andrew who was away, that Philip just scolded her and told her that she had to endure her husband's absence. That's probably what tossed her over the edge and prompted her affairs. (not that that's any excuse)
How could you not think that the Prince is merely sneezing?
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