I'm sure you all agree it's been too long since the last Prince Phillip Appreciation Thread.


Outspoken, forthright and with a reputation for 'plain speaking', the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, has always cut a heroic figure in British high society. Unashamed of his feelings and beliefs, he always talks straight from his heart.
The Prince's outspoken and forthright views have always ruffled feathers and, on numeorus occasions, caused race riots and near revolutions.
So, let's all raise a glass of port to this spendid fellow and wish him many more happy years of high living and jovial caddish antics.
And here's what you've all been waiting for. A prime cut of choice quotes from his wonderful life.

"You look as if you're ready for bed." -- Welcoming Commonwealth Secretary-General Chief Anyaoku as he arrives at Buckingham Palace in traditional Nigerian robe.

"We go into the red next year. . . . I shall probably have to give up polo." -- Comment on U.S. television in 1969 about the Royal Family's finances.

"Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for anorexics?"
-- Said to a blind woman with a guide dog.

"It looks like a tart's boudoir."
-- Comment on seeing plans for the Duchess of York's house.

"If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, . . . are you going to ban cricket bats?" -- Comment on calls for tougher gun laws after the 1996 shooting massacre of children in Dunblane school in Scotland. He later apologized.



"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." -- Comment to British students studying in Beijing.

"Reichskanzler." -- Using Hitler's title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl.

"Of course, the problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. They block the streets. If we could just stop tourism, we could stop the congestion."
-- Proposal for solving London's traffic problems.

"So you managed to get here without having your knickers blown off." -- Said to a farmer's wife from Northern Ireland visiting London for a charity event.

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." -- Observation on a messy fuse box during a visit to a factory in 1999.

"Djabugay, Yirrganydji, what's it all about? Do you still throw spears at each other?" -- Showing interest in two aboriginal tribes
this year in Australia. (In fact, throwing spears at the legs of miscreants is a traditional punishment in the tribes for certain
crimes.)



"I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit." -- Said to a woman solicitor in a reception line.

"It's a pleasure to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people." -- Said to Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.

"What are you doing here?"
-- Greeting former Times editor William Rees-Mogg as he arrives at Buckingham Palace as an invited dinner guest.

"You must be out of your minds." -- Said to Solomon Islanders in 1982 when told the annual population growth was 5 per cent.

"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" -- Said to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a royal walkabout in 1995.



"What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer." -- Response to a comment at a small-business lunch about how difficult it is in Britain to get rich (the previous night, Tom Jones had sung before the Prince at a Royal Variety Performance).

"You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: You don't trust me and I don't trust you." -- Said to Sir Rennie Maudslay, Keeper of the Privy Purse, in the 1970s. Philip later apologized.

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." -- Comment during the depth of a recession in Britain in 1981.

"I think you should arrange for every bishop in the country to have a copy. They all seem to confuse self-help and individual
responsibility with selfishness." -- Response to a book advocating laissez-faire economics and describing "help from without"
as "enfeebling."



"We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves." -- Said on an earlier visit to Canada.

"I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly." -- Response to question about how he feels about his life.



The man, the legend - Prince Philip. All hail.

It's not an easy life he's married

Kayleigh said:

That's certainly an interesting perception....unless you've missed out a word or three in that sentence, of course.

Number23 said:

No, I usually mean what I say

Kayleigh said:

I wish I could say the same thing.....

And I do mean that.

Number23 said:

When I was younger I used to lie a lot but then I came to my senses. Today I tell the truth but if I can't I'll try to find a way to say it in a different manner or not say anything.

Kayleigh said:

Mmm...truth isn't really what bothers me. I find it difficult to take anything seriously and generally, I come across as being sarcastic and ironic.
I do find it difficult to articulate 'honesty', but I am an honest person.
I suppose that was honest...

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Number23! Sinisterpentatonic wants you to orgnote him your phonenumber!

magnificentsynthesizer667 said:

Does he want to start a band? I can sing, dance and bullshit the press. Tell him his bedroom's funky.

Number23 said:

I bet he's a secret orger...




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