You can't beat the master:
"Do you still throw spears at each other?" (on meeting Australian Aborigines).
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them to pass the [driving] test?" on a visit to Scotland.
"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (to a group of deaf musicians standing near a band).
"If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." (to British students in China).
""Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." (in the middle of a recession).
All courtesy of our great Prince Philip. 🙂
Originally posted by VargYou forgot the other classic which made the headlines on the news
You can't beat the master:
"Do you still throw spears at each other?" (on meeting Australian Aborigines).
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them to pass the [driving] test?" on a visit to Scotland.
"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (to a group of deaf musicians standing near a band).
"If you stay here ...[text shortened]... are unemployed." (in the middle of a recession).
All courtesy of our great Prince Philip. 🙂
"That looks like it was installed by an indian" - When refering to some electrical work on one of his visits! (Cowboy Philip, thats the word your looking for!)
Priceless
Originally posted by 442Is he really British?The Queen was forced into an arranged marrige.
You forgot the other classic which made the headlines on the news
"That looks like it was installed by an indian" - When refering to some electrical work on one of his visits! (Cowboy Philip, thats the word your looking for!)
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He trys to be British.He fails because he trys too hard.The art of being British is to offend and not be noticed.
Originally posted by missleadNot true traditional Anglo Saxon Brits anyway, rumour has it our "royal" family desend from inbred Germans!
Is he really British?The Queen was forced into an arranged marrige.
He trys to be British.He fails because he trys too hard.The art of being British is to offend and not be noticed.
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Originally posted by 442Well, the 'true' Brits were not anglo-saxons but the ones that the anglo-saxons defeated i.e. various celtic tribes who were too busy fighting with each other to fend off the saxons. Actually, the Queen can trace her ancestry back to these tribes.
Not true traditional Anglo Saxon Brits anyway, rumour has it our "royal" family desend from inbred Germans!
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But, essentially, the Hanoverians were brought in from Germany to rule from George I, then Victoria was brought over from there too, and the line has been unbroken since her. Then again, the Hanoverians were descended from the deposed Stuarts (via Charles I) (who were Scottish but descended from Henry VII and Edward IV). Phew. It gets very complicated after that, because the Tudors were from Wales but again related to the English royal family who were from France if you go back far enough, then from Norway but married with the Celts and Saxons anyway...