Brit Prince Philip: No Inner Monologue

[roo_ster]

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?"

[roo_ster]

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?"

[seeker_two]

31. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" In the Cayman Islands, 1994.

But....he says that like it's a bad thing..... 

[Tallpine]

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 

[Fly320s]

I like him.

[red headed stranger]

He can say whatever he wants.  He's a god! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

He would fit in perfectly on APS.

Shades of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster.

[kgbsquirrel]

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. 

[Viking]

Pure genius.

[Lanius]

I guess he's the official Troll of the House-of Winsdor..

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

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?"

[Chuck Dye]

If you had the Brits for neighbors, you'd drink too 

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.

[seeker_two]

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.... 

[Chuck Dye]

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.

[Doggy Daddy]

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

[Doggy Daddy]

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car of a new wife.
Prince Philip

Genius!

DD

[kgbsquirrel]

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.

[Tallpine]

Last I looked, Scotland was still on the island of Great Britain and the Scots British.

A temporary condition, hopefully 

[makattak]

God Bless this crazy old man. We need more people like him.

[Stickjockey]

One can hope, TallPine, one can hope.

[roo_ster]

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.

[MillCreek]

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.

[KD5NRH]

He would fit in perfectly on APS.

Anybody got his email address?  We should invite him.

[Doggy Daddy]

Anybody got his email address?  We should invite him.

Maybe he's already here under a pseudonym... CSD?   

DD

[Hawkmoon]

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.