Prince Phillip, Gawd Bless Him

In celebration of Prince Philips 86th birthday this weekend:-

Some Prince Phillip quotes:

"Are you still throwing spears at other tribes?" (to Ivan Brim, Djabugay Elder at Tjapukai Aboriginal Park , Australia 2002)

"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)

"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them to pass the test?" (Asking a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland )

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

"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed" (to British students in China )

"You are a woman, aren't you?" (in Kenya 1984 after accepting a gift from an indigenous woman)

"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf" (to young deaf people in Cardiff 1999, referring to a nearby school's welcoming steel band)

"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian" (pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh 1999)

"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" (amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting)

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed" (during the 1981 recession)

"British women can't cook" (1966)

"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." —Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

(1967 - When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union ) "The bastards murdered half my family.."

(1982 - To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5% a year) "You must be out of your minds.."

(To a Cayman Islander) "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?.."

(1998 - To a student who'd trekked in Papua New Guinea ) "You managed not to get eaten then?.."

(2002 - To a school band in Cairns , Australia ) "You were playing your instruments weren't you?, or do you have tape recorders under your seats?.."

(2002 - Commenting during the Jubilee tour) "If you travel as much as we do you appreciate how much more comfortable aircraft have become. Unless you travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.."

(2002 - Commenting on the London traffic debate, after mayor Ken Livingstone forced through his plan to charge motorists £5 to enter the city) "The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop tourism we could stop the congestion.."