prince phillip gaffes
also known as the 'consort's clangers'
(1967 - When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union) "The *******s murdered half my family.."
(1981 - A comment during the UK's recession) "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.."
(1982 - To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5% a year) "You must be out of your minds.."
(1984 - On receiving a gift from a Kenyan native woman) "You are a woman aren't you?.."
(1986 - To a group of British students in China) "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.."
(To a Cayman Islander) "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?.."
(c. 1990 - To a British ex-pat in Hungary) "You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a pot-belly yet.."
(1995 - To a Scottish driving instructor in Oban) "How do you keep the natives off the booze for long enough to pass their test?.."
(1998 - To a student who'd trekked in Papua New Guinea) "You managed not to get eaten then?.."
(1999 - On seeing a fuse box while being shown around an Edinburgh factory) "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.."
(2002 - To a school band in Cairns, Australia) "You were playing your instruments weren't you?, or do you have tape recorders under your seats?.."
(2002 - To an Aboriginal man on Australia's Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park) "Do you still throw spears at each other..?
(2002 - Commenting during the Jubilee tour) "If you travel as much as we do you appreciate how much more comfortable aircraft have become. Unless you travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.."
(2002 - Commenting on the London traffic debate, after mayor Ken Livingstone forced through his plan to charge motorists £5 to enter the city) "The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop tourism we could stop the congestion.."
(Summer 2002 - Aboard the floating restaurant 'Il Punto' on the river Orwell in Ipswich, after thoroughly enjoying an excellent full English breakfast) "French cooking's all very well, but they can't do a decent English breakfast.." (Il Punto is owned by Frenchman Regis Crepy..)
The mans got style
....anyone got any more by him?
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