OK, I was walking in Cambridge England a couple summers ago, and came across a procession. When I asked the shop owner who it was, he said it was the Duke of Edinburgh. Then I asked who THAT was, and he said it was Prince Phillip. Then I asked who Prince Phillip was, and he looked at me like I was from outerspace and said, "It's the queen's husband." I almost said, "Elton John's husband is a Duke?", but refrained. Anyways, the shop owner seemed very displeased with my ignorance of who British Royalty was, so I asked a neighbor of my sister's to break it down for me. Apparently, Prince Phillip has an appalling lack of scruples when it comes to saying politically incorrect things in public

Optimus (the orger) posted this a few months ago, and it cracked my ass up so here's his post again:




Prince Philip is married to Queen Elizabeth II of England, He is quite famous in Britain for making some rather embarrassing,though often hilarious comments.heres a list of his best quotes.....


To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional robes 'You look like you’re ready for bed!

On key problems facing Brazil "Brazilians live there'

[b]When asked if he'd like to visit the Soviet Union "The bastards murdered half my family"to an asian man at a Washington Confrence "are you Indian or Pakistani I can never tell the diffrence with you chaps"

To a blind women with a guide "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now"

Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"

"I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife,but they are good for doing the same thing"

When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".

After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, "You are a woman, aren't you?"

"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (1986)

To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"

"When a man opens the car door for his wife,it’s either a new car or a new wife".

Angering local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, the Prince said to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle."

On a visit to the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."

In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, "Do you still throw spears at each other?"

Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, "You can't have been here that long you haven't got a pot belly." (1993)

Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh factory, HRH remarked that it looked "like it was put in by an Indian".

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)

At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

Upon presenting a Duke of Edinburgh Award to a student, when informed that the young man was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphans; upon being informed he was not, it was claimed the 85-year-old duke added: "Ah good, there's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages."

At the University of Salford, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: "You could do with losing a bit of weight."

In 1997, the Duke of Edinburgh, participating in an already controversial British visit to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Amritsar Massacre) Monument, provoked outrage in India and in the UK with an offhand comment. Having observed a plaque claiming 2,000 casualties, Prince Philip observed, "That's not right. The number is less."

During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in London, he asked a Hindu priest if he was related to the terrorist Tamil Tigers.

In 1996, he drew sharp criticism when he said "a gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman". The comment came in the wake of the massacre of 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.

In 1987, he wrote in his book If I Were an Animal that "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."

"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".

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Imago said:

Well that one is actually fact as he is a blood relative of Czar Nicholas II wife and the whole family was executed by Russian Bolsheviks in 1917

His DNA was used to confirm that remains found in 1998 were actually the Russian royal family.

Just shows what a saint the Queen is to put up with him for 60 years

Imago said:

Well that one is actually fact as he is a blood relative of Czar Nicholas II wife and the whole family was executed by Russian Bolsheviks in 1917

His DNA was used to confirm that remains found in 1998 were actually the Russian royal family.

Just shows what a saint the Queen is to put up with him for 60 years

endymion said:

I didn't know that

all the royal families of Europe are related. they all share the most common recent ancestor Queen Victoria of England.

ehuffnsd said:

Yeah, they're all very... inter-bred through marrying cousins and whatnot. I think it contributes to their horsey appearance.

GirlBrother said:

ehuffnsd said:

lawd, the British and their teeth!
He's way too rich to have teeth like that! lawd.

Imago said:

True I guess.

But what other people don't understand is the U.S. fascination with teeth. They're just chompers

Sometimes when I see an American who has obviously spent a billion odd dollars on their teeth it's all I can do not to laugh. Perfectly straight and ridiculously brilliant white....they look so fake.

Then again you guys do go mad with the plastic surgery too...

Imago said:

True I guess.

But what other people don't understand is the U.S. fascination with teeth. They're just chompers

Sometimes when I see an American who has obviously spent a billion odd dollars on their teeth it's all I can do not to laugh. Perfectly straight and ridiculously brilliant white....they look so fake.

Then again you guys do go mad with the plastic surgery too...

ehuffnsd said:

Yeah, they're all very... inter-bred through marrying cousins and whatnot. I think it contributes to their horsey appearance.