dead Prince Philip Duke Of Edinburgh

[Monoclinic 39]

Not the right thread but hell that's never stopped me before.

 

In a game of top trumps Berlusconi would appear to out trump dear old Phil. Nice tan indeed, what an asshat.

[TAFKAG 70]

Phil becomes GB's longest-serving royal appendage. 350+ possible gaffe opportunities last year, I can see him carrying on for a while yet.

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The wit and wisdom of the great man:

 

 

 

On age

 

We shall all be old one day - provided, of course, we can avoid being slaughtered on the roads or beaten up by some hooligan in a peace demonstration (1970)

 

To a blind woman with a guide dog

 

Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now? (2002)

 

To his wife after her coronation

 

Where did you get that hat? (1953)

 

On turning 80

 

I'm not sure I recommend it. It's not so much the age, but trying to survive the celebrations (2001)

 

Arriving to open a youth centre in Brighton

 

Who are you burying today? (2007)

 

Meeting Nigeria's president, who was in robes

 

You look like you are ready for bed (1956)

 

To Russell Brand, about the woman next to him in a royal variety show line-up

 

She's got all the right stuff in all the right places (2007)

 

On Number 10's idea for Diana's funeral

 

F*** off - we are talking about two boys who have lost their mother (1997)

 

Told by Elton John of his gold Aston Martin

 

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car - we often see it when driving to Windsor Castle (2001)

 

To president Kenyatta during Kenya's independence, as the Union Jack was lowered

 

Are you sure you want to go ahead with this, old chap? (1963)

 

On death

 

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation (1988)

 

To the General Dental Council

 

Dentopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I have been practising it for years (1960)

 

To Cherie Blair, on hearing that London had won the 2012 Olympic bid

 

I'm so old I won't be here (2005)

 

Told by president Obama of meetings already that day with the Chinese, Russians, Brown and Cameron

 

Can you tell the difference between them? (2009)

 

To a fashion writer at a world wildlife fund gathering

 

You're not wearing mink knickers, are you? (1993)

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In his capacity as patron of the Chartered Society of Designers, on the 50th anniversary of the design prize bearing his name, Prince Phil "rails against TV controls"

 

"To work out how to operate a TV set you practically have to make love to the thing."

 

You had to lie on the floor with a torch and magnifying glass

 

Maybe its a royalty thing, but I've seldom been that adventurous with my foreplay!!

[Tuber Mirum 125]

 

He looks absolutely frightful in this recent photo.

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I'm pretty sure his health is deteriorating these days. He looks more aged and tired than ever before. My prediction is that he will be suffering from heart problems during the next few yers and eventually perhaps even debilitating strokes that will kill him. Philip has the best health care available so I don´t think he will die this year or next year yet but perhaps 2015 would be a realistic time of demise.

[Windsor 2,233]

He looks more aged and tired than ever before.

 

Does that not apply to most people over 75?

[CarolAnn 926]

He looks more aged and tired than ever before.

 

Does that not apply to most people over 75?

 

Hell, it applies to this person who just turned 45.

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Prince Philip turns 90 today.

 

 

http://www.itn.co.uk/home/20737/Prince+Philip+turns+90

 

 

... so if being a cantankerous, sexist, racist bastard is a key to longevity, I am on the right path for a long life.

[Windsor 2,233]

... so if being a cantankerous, sexist, racist bastard is a key to longevity, I am on the right path for a long life.

 

Being a sexist and racist bastard...do you mean being a comedian?

Some of my favourites from Prince Philip:

 

“So who’s on drugs here?... HE looks as if he’s on drugs.” - At a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.

 

To Andrew Adams, 13, in 1998: “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”

 

On smoke alarms to a woman who lost two sons in a fire, 1998: “They’re a damn nuisance - I’ve got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.”

 

To Simon Kelner, republican editor of The Independent, at Windsor Castle reception: “What are you doing here?” “I was invited, sir.” Philip: “Well, you didn’t have to come.”

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On smoke alarms to a woman who lost two sons in a fire, 1998: “They’re a damn nuisance - I’ve got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.”

 

I wish Phil would join our forums. He would fit right in here.

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On smoke alarms to a woman who lost two sons in a fire, 1998: “They’re a damn nuisance - I’ve got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.”

 

I wish Phil would join our forums. He would fit right in here.

Perhaps he already has...

 

regards,

Hein

[Der Stadt 6]

The jelly beans man i thought he would last till next year,but with

katie cooking royal dough for the oven ,one in one out!no not the old in out in out

shes a royal they dont do it like that ,he would be welcome hier in spirit as

he is allways good for a laugh,the longest concert has to end .

Is that a goolie i see?yes you stupid old bastard your in london.

Oh i thought they all stayed with Bush.

Encore for the 90 year old horse rider

[sympathyforthedevil 11]

The jelly beans man i thought he would last till next year,but with

katie cooking royal dough for the oven ,one in one out!no not the old in out in out

shes a royal they dont do it like that ,he would be welcome hier in spirit as

he is allways good for a laugh,the longest concert has to end .

Is that a goolie i see?yes you stupid old bastard your in london.

Oh i thought they all stayed with Bush.

Encore for the 90 year old horse rider

 

auf Englisch, bitte!

[SlippyInvader 0]

I watched a documentary about him today and it looks like there's still plenty of life in the old dog yet.

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

Still in fine form on his birthday:

 

 

The duke showed the accolades were unlikely to go to his head, as he showed when he was asked by the BBC if he thought he had been successful.

 

"I couldn't care less. Who cares what I think about it? I mean it's ridiculous," he said, adding that he had figured out how to perform his role by "trial and error".

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

90 years' worth of gaffes:

 

 

1 After being told that Madonna was singing the Die Another Day theme in 2002: “Are we going to need ear plugs?”

2 To a car park attendant who didn’t recognise him in 1997, he snapped: “You bloody silly fool!”

3 To Simon Kelner, republican editor of The Independent, at Windsor Castle reception: “What are you doing here?” “I was invited, sir.” Philip: “Well, you didn’t have to come.”

4 To female sea cadet last year: “Do you work in a strip club?”

5 To expats in Abu Dhabi last year: “Are you running away from something?”

6 After accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991: “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.”

7 At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965, he said: “Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don’t you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?’”

8 To multi-ethnic Britain’s Got Talent 2009 winners Diversity: “Are you all one family?”

9 To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”

10 His description of Beijing, during a visit there in 1986: “Ghastly.”

11 At Hertfordshire University, 2003: “During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, ‘More open than usual’. I now declare this place more open than usual.”

12 To deaf children by steel band, 2000: “Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.”

13 To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”

14 To a British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”

15 His verdict on Stoke-on-Trent, during a visit in 1997: “Ghastly.”

16 To Atul Patel at reception for influential Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”

17 Peering at a fuse box in a Scottish factory, he said: “It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” He later backtracked: “I meant to say cowboys.”

18 To Lockerbie residents after plane bombing, 1993: “People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.”

19 In Canada in 1976: “We don’t come here for our health.”

20 “I never see any home cooking – all I get is fancy stuff.” 1987

21 On the Duke of York’s house, 1986: “It looks like a tart’s bedroom.”

22 Using Hitler’s title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1997, he called him: “Reichskanzler.”

23 “We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.” 1969.

24 At party in 2004: “Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!”

25 To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”

26 To a civil servant, 1970: “You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.”

27 On the 1981 recession: “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 up their minds what they want.”

28 On the new £18million British Embassy in Berlin in 2000: “It’s a vast waste of space.”

29 After Dunblane massacre, 1996: “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?”

30 To the Aircraft Research Association in 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 sounds ghastly.”

31 On stress counselling for servicemen in 1995: “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!”

32 On Tom Jones, 1969: “It’s difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.”

33 To the Scottish WI in 1961: “British women can’t cook.”

34 To then Paraguay dictator General Stroessner: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”

35 To Cayman Islanders: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”

36 To Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”

37 At a WF meeting in 1986: “If it has four legs and it’s not a chair, if it’s got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it’s not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”

38 “You ARE a woman, aren’t you?” Kenya, 1984.

39 A VIP at a local airport asked HRH: “What was your flight, like, Your Royal Highness? Philip: “Have you ever flown in a plane?” VIP: “Oh yes, sir, many times.” “Well,” said Philip, “it was just like that.”

40 On Ethiopian art, 1965: “It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.”

41 To a fashion writer in 1993: “You’re not wearing mink knickers,are you?”

42 To Susan Edwards and her guide dog in 2002: “They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.”

43 When offered wine in Rome in 2000, he snapped: “I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer!”

44 “I’d like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” 1967.

45 At City Hall in 2002: “If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.”

46 On seeing a piezo-meter water gauge in Australia: “A pissometer?”

47 “You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.” To matron of Caribbean hospital, 1966.

48 At a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002:“So who’s on drugs here?... HE looks as if he’s on drugs.”

49 To achildren’s band in Australia in 2002: “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”

50 At Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme, 2006. “Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”

51 On how difficult it is in Britain to get rich: “What about Tom Jones? He’s made a million and he’s a bloody awful singer.”

52 To Elton John on his gold Aston Martin in 2001: “Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car, is it?”

53 At an engineering school closed so he could officially open it, 2005: “It doesn’t look like much work goes on at this university.”

54 To Aboriginal leader William Brin, Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each filmother?”

55 At a Scottish fish farm: “Oh! You’re the people ruining the rivers.”

56 After a breakfast of bacon, eggs, smoked salmon, kedgeree, croissants and pain au chocolat – from Gallic chef Regis Crépy, 2002: “The French don’t know how to cook breakfast.”

57 To schoolboy who invited the Queen to Romford, Essex, 2003: “Ah, you’re the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?”

58 To black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”

59 To parents at a previously struggling Sheffield school, 2003: “Were you here in the bad old days? ... That’s why you can’t read and write then!”

60 To Andrew Adams, 13, in 1998: “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”

61“Where’s the Southern Comfort?” When presented with a hamper of goods by US ambassador, 1999.

62 To editor of downmarket tabloid: “Where are you from?” “The S*n, sir.” Philip: “Oh, no . . . one can’t tell from the outside.”

63 Turning down food, 2000: “No, I’d probably end up spitting it out over everybody.”

64 Asking Cate Blanchett to fix his DVD player because she worked “in the film industry”, 2008: “There’s a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

65 “People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.” 2000.

66 After hearing President Obama had had breakfast with leaders of the UK, China and Russia, 2010: “Can you tell the difference between them?”

67 On students from Brunei, 1998: “I don’t know how they’re going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.”

68 On Princess Anne, 1970: “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t interested.”

69 To wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident, 2002: “Do people trip over you?”

70 Discussing tartan with then-Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie last year: “That’s a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?”

71 To a group of industrialists in 1961: “I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.”

72 On a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957: “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!”

73 On being made Chancellor of Edinburgh University in 1953: “Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.”

74 “I must be the only person in Britain glad to see the back of that plane.” He hated the noise Concorde made flying over Buckingham Palace, 2002

75 To a fashion designer, 2009: “Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you?”

76 To the General Dental Council in 1960: “Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practised for many years.”

77 On stroking a koala in 1992: “Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.”

78 On marriage in 1997: “You can take it from me the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.”

79 To schoolchildren in blood-red uniforms, 1998: “It makes you all look like Dracula’s daughters!”

80 “I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.” 1988.

81 To female Labour MPs in 2000: “So this is feminist corner then.”

82 On Nottingham Forest trophies in 1999: “I suppose I’d get in trouble if I were to melt them down.”

83 “It’s my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.” 1956.

84 To a penniless student in 1998: “Why don’t you go and live in a hostel to save cash?”

85 On robots colliding, Science Museum, 2000: “They’re not mating are they?”

86 While stuck in a Heriot Watt University lift in 1958: “This could only happen in a technical college.”

87 To newsreader Michael Buerk, when told he knew about the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Awards, 2004: “That’s more than you know about anything else then.”

88 To a British student in China, 1986: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll go home with slitty eyes.”

89 To journalist Caroline Wyatt, who asked if the Queen was enjoying a Paris trip, 2006: “Damn fool question!”

90 On smoke alarms to a woman who lost two sons in a fire, 1998: “They’re a damn nuisance - I’ve got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.”

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Only a few of those are "gaffes".

[sympathyforthedevil 11]

36 To Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”

 

Also, what's our Phil got against Tom Jones?

[Der Stadt 6]

The jelly beans man i thought he would last till next year,but with

katie cooking royal dough for the oven ,one in one out!no not the old in out in out

shes a royal they dont do it like that ,he would be welcome hier in spirit as

he is allways good for a laugh,the longest concert has to end .

Is that a goolie i see?yes you stupid old bastard your in london.

Oh i thought they all stayed with Bush.

Encore for the 90 year old horse rider

 

auf Englisch, bitte!

ich bin nicht Englisch,ich komme aus schotland und das ist mir schiss egal ,i know spelling it has been a while ,still think the old bastard wil get it ,columbo has said good bye to her in doors ,what about his ,dog and lovely car Tja

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Officials must still be confident about the health of QE2 and the Mad Greek:

 

"Earlier this year, there had been speculation the 85-year-old Monarch and her 90-year-old husband were not making any more long-haul journeys.

 

But the palace has now confirmed the Queen and Prince Philip are to visit Canberra, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne in October."

 

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-24/quee...october/2940536

[Octopus of Odstock 2,195]

He's been rushed to hospital with chest pains - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16323794

[themaninblack 2,112]

Prince Phillip in hospital...

[Windsor 2,233]

Prince Phillip in hospital...

 

He is known to suffer from a serious heart condition...so this is not good news at all (depending on your opinion of course).

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Please do not panic everyone.His condition is stable. There is concern but not yet alarm.