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What a legend. British humour at it's best. Happy Birthday Prince Philip.

 

1. "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly".

Comments to a Briton the Prince met in Hungary in 1993.

 

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

Phil gets to the heart of the matter when discussing the 1981 recession.

 

3. “You are a woman, aren't you?" Philip to a Kenyan dancer during a State visit.

 

4. "Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut."

A 13-year-old boy's life-long dreams of space exploration are dashed.

 

5. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test."

The Duke quizzes a Scottish driving instructor.

 

6. "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian."

The Prince gives his verdict on a less-than-sophisticated fuse box spotted during a tour of an electronics firm.

 

7. Speaking to British exchange students during a 1996 tour of Beijing: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."

 

8. "You look as if you're ready for the bed."

Philip’s greeting for the Nigerian secretary-general of the Commonwealth, who has dressed up in his ceremonial robes for a state dinner.

 

9. "It's a pleasure to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people."

The Prince meets the then Paraguayan dictator General Stroessner:

 

10. "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."

Phil dishes out some sound advice to a group from the British Deaf Association who were standing near a band

dune

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To survivors of the Lockerbie bombing he told them: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still drying out Windsor Castle."

 

At a Buckingham Palace drinks party, he told group of female Labour MPs: "Ah, so this is feminist corner then."

 

 

 

lol.

Verbal

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THe Greeks did well to dump the buffoon on us.

 

THe Windsors should do a reality show. It'll make Made in Chelsea look like a Jean-Luc Godard movie.

dune

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THe Greeks did well to dump the buffoon on us.

 

THe Windsors should do a reality show. It'll make Made in Chelsea look like a Jean-Luc Godard movie.

 

Put your 19C head on and try again.

miserableoldgit

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I liked these two:-

“If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it’s either a new woman or a new car!”

 

To his wife, the Queen, after her coronation

“Where did you get the hat?”

dune

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Count me out, I'm against racist spongers, whether they live on a council estate or in a palace.

 

 

 

:lol:

 

Brilliant.

Sergei Gotsmanov

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THe Greeks did well to dump the buffoon on us.

 

THe Windsors should do a reality show. It'll make Made in Chelsea look like a Jean-Luc Godard movie.

 

That is the beauty of the Royal Family is that they are above reality shows. I suspect yuou are an avid viewer of them.

 

Anyway shouldn't you be defending travellers on the other thread?

Verbal

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That is the beauty of the Royal Family is that they are above reality shows. I suspect yuou are an avid viewer of them.

 

Anyway shouldn't you be defending travellers on the other thread?

 

Big fan of Made in Chelsea, certainly. It's the subtlest piece of radical TV I've seen in years. The upper classes will never survive their unmasking as unmitigated, wasted idiots.

EastleighSoulBoy

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THe Greeks did well to dump the buffoon on us.

 

THe Windsors should do a reality show. It'll make Made in Chelsea look like a Jean-Luc Godard movie.

 

Jeremy Kyle would be in his element and I bet they'd burn out the polygraph machine.

Sergei Gotsmanov

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Big fan of Made in Chelsea, certainly. It's the subtlest piece of radical TV I've seen in years. The upper classes will never survive their unmasking as unmitigated, wasted idiots.

 

and you are gullible enough to believe that is reality. Come on Verbal for such a wordsmith you seem very naive.

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and you are gullible enough to believe that is reality. Come on Verbal for such a wordsmith you seem very naive.

 

I happen to know people who work on it Sergei. They are the vanguard of the socialist revolution. Made in Chelsea is the death knell of capitalism and trust fund kids.

Thedelldays

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Might have something to do with a pampered and privileged lifestyle.

 

dont care if they grew up on the street...anyone who saw action in WW2 is a legend in my eyes..and should be treated as such..

be it, prince phillip or uncle albtert

Dimond Geezer

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What a legend. British humour at it's best. Happy Birthday Prince Philip.

 

 

Hardly British, the bloke is a Greek born Dane.

 

However despite my belief the the monachary should be retired, he can be quite funny at times, although not always intentionally.

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dont care if they grew up on the street...anyone who saw action in WW2 is a legend in my eyes..and should be treated as such..

be it, prince phillip or uncle albtert

 

Or any number of Nazi WW2 vets.

Thedelldays

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Hardly British, the bloke is a Greek born Dane.

 

However despite my belief the the monachary should be retired, he can be quite funny at times, although not always intentionally.

 

surely, he is a british national by now.....wouldnt you think..?

Thedelldays

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Whats racist about listing the names of sportsmen who were born abroad and took British Nationality to further their careers?

so, we agree they are all british then.....not too sure it matters in anyway..

EastleighSoulBoy

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I read that his 3 sisters each married a Nazi.

 

That must have caused some disquiet in the Royal household during WW2.

 

Not really . . . considering that the queen's uncle was pro Hitler.

 

I love Prince Phillip. He is a hero to all of us dyed-in-the-wool racists.

 

Thanks Kadeem, hence the thread.

Sergei Gotsmanov

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Media types you see. Generally they love to pick up high salaries but then preachy to us about being equal.

 

You want to instate yourself as a new Presidential figure and then interfere in everty part of our lives.

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Is there anything in the notion that Fiona Bruce was chosen to interview His Dukeness because of her experience on the Antiques Roadshow?

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I'm not sure what's so great about Phillip - he's hardly Oscar Wilde and casual racism is fairly common in his generation. My grandparents were exactly the same. Obviously participating in the second world war is a very brave thing though.

scotty

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I read that his 3 sisters each married a Nazi.

 

That must have caused some disquiet in the Royal household during WW2.

 

Anybody else remember that Spitting Image sketch from when Maggie got unceremoniously ditched? She was sitting with her head in her hands, one of her ministers said "pull yourself together, think about your great wartime hero, what would he have done?" Maggie says "how should I know, he topped himself in a berlin bunker" :lol:

EastleighSoulBoy

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I read that his 3 sisters each married a Nazi.

 

That must have caused some disquiet in the Royal household during WW2.

 

Anybody else remember that Spitting Image sketch from when Maggie got unceremoniously ditched? She was sitting with her head in her hands, one of her ministers said "pull yourself together, think about your great wartime hero, what would he have done?" Maggie says "how should I know, he topped himself in a berlin bunker" :lol:

 

Nice memory.

 

She did admire adolf but found him a little too humane for her liking.

revolution saint

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he is amongst an ever shortening list of people who saw action in WW2..that is enough for me to make him great

 

Stop looking for an argument that isn't there - no one has denied that serving during WW2 wasn't brave (except you when it comes to the Germans) but hey ho, as you would say.

Thedelldays

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Stop looking for an argument that isn't there - no one has denied that serving during WW2 wasn't brave (except you when it comes to the Germans) but hey ho, as you would say.

 

how am I looking for an arguement..that is my belief....I have met god knows how many vets in my time and I have nothing but the greatest of greatest respect for them..no matter what their up bringing is...

of course except for nazis..I respect those who are allies..british..why would I think nazis are legends..? what an odd post

revolution saint

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how am I looking for an arguement..that is my belief....I have met god knows how many vets in my time and I have nothing but the greatest of greatest respect for them..no matter what their up bringing is...

of course except for nazis..I respect those who are allies..british..why would I think nazis are legends..? what an odd post

 

OK fair enough - I thought the post you'd replied to was about Germans rather than Nazis, my mistake.

scotty

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^There was an uncomfortable number of nazi sympathisers right here in Britain during WW2, sadly. That c*nt mosely got run out of our very own city as soon as he got off the tram in the Avenue according to an eighty-odd year old mate who was there, he had to hole up for protection from a lynch mob in the church opposite the Cowherds and got shipped out again under police escort. According to my friend, Southampton was the first place mosely got any real grief, I feel somehow proud of our city for that.

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