As Prince Philip hammered another nail into his coffin (or put one more candle on his birthday cake, whichever you like better), media started recapitulating on his gaffes. So I though I will put down few my personally favourites:
To a wheelchair bound nursing-home resident, 2002: "Do people trip over you?"
To a female sea cadet, 2010: "Do you work in a strip club?"
To the Editor of The Independent at the reception in Winsdor Castle: "What are you doing here?" "I was invited, Sir." "Well, you didn't have to come"
At a project to protect turtle doves in Aguilla, 1965: "Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird'?"
To the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in national clothes, 2003: "You look like you're ready for bed!"
1987: "I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff"
At a WF meeting, 1986:" If it has four legs, and it's not a chair, if it's got two wings and it flies but is not a aeroplane and if it swims and it's not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it".
To a deaf children by steel band, 2000: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."
1967: "I'd like to go to Russia very much - although the bastards murdered half my family."
To Paraguay dictator at a time General Stroessner: "It's a pleasure to be in a country that isn't ruled by it's own people"
2002: "If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which is ghastly".
To a woman solicitor, 1987: "I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit".
"A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make their minds what they want."
On seing a piezo-meter water gauge in Australia: "A pissometer?"
To Aboriginal leader Willian Brin in Queensland, 2002: "Do you still throw spears at each other?"
After hearing President Obama had had breakfast with leaders of the UK, China and Russia, 2010: Can you tell the difference between them?"
2000: "People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans".
To schoolchildren in blood-red uniforms, 1998: "It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!"
On Princess Anne, 1970: "If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested."
On Ethiopian art, 1965: "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons."
When offered wine in Rome in 2000 he retorted: I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!"
"If a criceter suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricet bat, are you going to ban cricet bats?"
On how difficult it is to get rich in Britain: "What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer."
To a black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999: And what exotic part of the world do you come from?"
At a Scottish fish farm: "Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers."
To a poor student, 1998: "Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?"
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing"
"Only a Schotsman can really survive a Scottish education."
Turning down food, 2000: "No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody."
Hope you enjoyed them, I'm also wandering what people said back to him. If the responses are noted down and flouting around in the big web, it would be interesting to see them. Thanks for reading and please comment on the drawing as well.
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