Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: roo_ster on June 05, 2011, 07:55:04 PM
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http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/05/monarchism-vindicated.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ninety-gaffes-in-ninety-years-2290148.html
http://www.allgreatquotes.com/prince_philip_quotes2.shtml
I am not a big fan of monarchy, being a small-r republican, but this guy is hilarious in his unwillingness (inability?) to go PC.
Here are a few:
1. "Ghastly." Prince Philip's opinion of Beijing, during a 1986 tour of China.
7. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.
18. "If it has 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." Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.
22. "I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family." In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.
31. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" In the Cayman Islands, 1994.
59. "It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!" Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.
86. "I'd much rather have stayed in the Navy, frankly." When asked what he felt about his life in 1992.
From another list:
4."You managed not to get eaten, then."
Prince Philip to student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea in 1998, suggesting Papuan tribes people were still cannibals.
5. "If you gave a seven-year-old a brush and paints he'd produce something like that."
Prince Philip in the Sudan, after viewing some of the paintings housed in the country's ethnic museum.
Reminds me of several old guys I met, but one in particular:
roo_ster's buddy: "Mr. Elderly WW2 Vet, here's my friend from out of town, <first_name> roo_ster."
EWV: "roo_ster!? Isn't that a kraut name?"
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I can't believe I missed this one:
23. "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" In a Radio 4 interview shortly after the Dunblane shootings in 1996. He said to the interviewer off-air afterwards: "That will really set the cat among the pigeons, won't it?"
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31. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" In the Cayman Islands, 1994.
But....he says that like it's a bad thing..... =|
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But....he says that like it's a bad thing..... =|
Yeah, just like the Scots drinking ;)
If you had the Brits for neighbors, you'd drink too :P
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I like him.
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He can say whatever he wants. He's a god!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement
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He would fit in perfectly on APS.
Shades of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster.
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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
Prince Philip
At the height of the recession in 1981.
I'm starting to like the guy more and more. :lol:
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Pure genius.
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I guess he's the official Troll of the House-of Winsdor..
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Reminds me of several old guys I met, but one in particular:
roo_ster's buddy: "Mr. Elderly WW2 Vet, here's my friend from out of town, <first_name> roo_ster."
EWV: "roo_ster!? Isn't that a kraut name?"
you'd love john ross's dad
upon being introduced to me he turned to his son and said
"don't you know any white people?"
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If you had the Brits for neighbors, you'd drink too :P
Last I looked, Scotland was still on the island of Great Britain and the Scots British.
You are forgiven, though, just look at how many call the Arabs antisemitic despite Arabs being Semites. =D
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Last I looked, Scotland was still on the island of Great Britain and the Scots British.
I dare you to say that in a pub in Aberdeen.... =D
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I wonder how many of the OP quotes come of as mere drollery when actually heard. The spoken word often doesn't do well in print.
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I can't believe I missed this one:
I liked this one:
"All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury." Bemoaning the rate of British tax in 1963.
DD
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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car of a new wife.
Prince Philip
Genius!
DD
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This one seems both immensely appropriate and foretelling.
"Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practiced for a good many years." Address to the General Dental Council, quoted in Time in 1960.
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Last I looked, Scotland was still on the island of Great Britain and the Scots British.
A temporary condition, hopefully :P
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God Bless this crazy old man. We need more people like him.
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One can hope, TallPine, one can hope.
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WRT Scottish idependence:
From what I've read, the Scot policritters are even more socialist than the English policritters. Not sure if independence would work so well for them.
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WRT Scottish idependence:
From what I've read, the Scot policritters are even more socialist than the English policritters. Not sure if independence would work so well for them.
If Scotland nationalizes the North Sea oil fields, then they could afford socialism. It has seemed to work well for Norway.
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He would fit in perfectly on APS.
Anybody got his email address? We should invite him.
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Anybody got his email address? We should invite him.
Maybe he's already here under a pseudonym... CSD? :laugh:
DD
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Last I looked, Scotland was still on the island of Great Britain and the Scots British.
Scotland may be on the same island, but Scots are Scottish, not British.
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Scotland may be on the same island, but Scots are Scottish, not British.
That was something that the Romans discovered ;)
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That was something that the Romans discovered ;)
Picty, picty.
You might like this RE Howard short story:
http://www.manybooks.net/titles/howardrother07worms_of_the_earth.html
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BTW, the "Picts" never went away. The Gaelic and Pictish cultures just melded.
The Picts are alive and well today in the blood of Scots all over the world.
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Maybe he's already here under a pseudonym... CSD? :laugh:
I'd have guessed fistful...but that works, too.... =D
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I'd have guessed fistful...but that works, too.... =D
Don't give him ideas ... now he'll change his name again ;/
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Don't give him ideas ... now he'll change his name again ;/
Yeah, but just like ShootinStudent, it'll be obvious.
DD
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75. "They're not mating are they?" Spotting two robots bumping in to one another at the Science Museum in 2000
:lol:
People who have no internal filter are the best.
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Yeah, but just like ShootinStudent, it'll be obvious.
DD
Can we now stop obsession over SS's name change? He isn't the first, nor the last. He didn't do it to hide from anyone, like some of our membership, so there's no need to point it out.
Maybe I should post a list of everyone who's change their names here and why.
Chris
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Maybe I should post a list of everyone who's change their names here and why.
Chris
Works for me! =D
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Maybe I should post a list of everyone who's change their names here and why.
Chris
I'm good with it too !!!
[popcorn] =D
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Can we now stop obsession over SS's name change? He isn't the first, nor the last. He didn't do it to hide from anyone, like some of our membership, so there's no need to point it out.
Maybe I should post a list of everyone who's change their names here and why.
Chris
I'm in for this one too. =D
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I'm in for this one too. =D
And then we can come up with better names for them =D
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And then we can come up with better names for them =D
And if they don't like the new names, why, it's Fistful's fault!
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Fistful's fault
Isn't that the one they used to call "New Madrid" ?
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Isn't that the one they used to call "New Madrid" ?
I thought it'd been called "McCain/Palin '08"........
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Can we now stop obsession over SS's name change? He isn't the first, nor the last. He didn't do it to hide from anyone, like some of our membership, so there's no need to point it out.
Maybe I should post a list of everyone who's change their names here and why.
Chris
While you're at it, can you change my name back to fistful? (For those of you playing along at home, theartistformerlyknownasfistful was part of the April Fools avatar changes, not my idea.)
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While you're at it, can you change my name back to fistful? (For those of you playing along at home, theartistformerlyknownasfistful was part of the April Fools avatar changes, not my idea.)
Have you been locked out of making any changes to your profile ?
They can do that ?
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Have you been locked out of making any changes to your profile ?
They can do that ?
After the name switching phenomanon a while back, I beleive the mods made name changing impossible by users and now it can only be done with their aid and by request.
Unless you're fistful, then they just screw around =D
Oh, to be a mod *sigh*
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Oh, I knew that the Name change thingy was locked, but I referring to his sig lines, and the "that's why yellow makes me sad, I think.." line.
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Oh, I knew that the Name change thingy was locked, but I referring to his sig lines, and the "that's why yellow makes me sad, I think.." line.
Now those are all mine. :cool:
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54. "Can you tell the difference between them?" On being told by President Obama that he'd had breakfast with the leaders of the UK, China and Russia.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Now those are all mine. :cool:
You know....I think I'd have just lied about that, fisty.....