Posted on 04/10/2021 7:41:46 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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.”
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!”
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.
78. On marriage in 1997: “You can take it from me the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.”
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Guys back then were permanently messed up from shellshock, too.
The difference back then was government let em drink a lot and take it out on each other and family. Because government wasnt going to help them, other than to tell them to get over it. Now not so much.
Witty, wonderful and very Sturdy man.
My condolences to the folks across the pond.
“People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.”
ROFL!!
As George Carlin said, "I’ll bet you if we’d have still been calling it 'shellshock', some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time."
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My father came back from WWII with several problems, physical and otherwise.
He received a lot of help from the VA.
What was different back then was the VA; and the value that Americans had for returning servicemen.
A couple of these were cringeworthy, but the rest were just a man speaking his mind, and plenty of them were very funny. He obviously knew he had the tendency to step in it now and then, and I appreciate his being honest and good-humored about that.
RIP
Gaffe implies a slip or mistake, PP knew exactly what he was saying and said anyway, that’s why he was loved by everyone.
To a children’s band in Australia in 2002: “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”
To a children’s band in Australia in 2002: “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”
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Sorry, I don’t take that as a gaff or insult.
My ‘dry sense of humor’ interprets him as implying they were that good....
Then again, it isn’t easy being me....<:>..>..<:>
To a children’s band in Australia in 2002: “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Sorry, I don’t take that as a gaff or insult.
My ‘dry sense of humor’ interprets him as implying they were that good....
Then again, it isn’t easy being me....<:>..>..<:>
Methinks Prince Philip would have fit right in with me and my friends. It sounds like he kept the British Peerage’s knickers twisted in knots for 70 plus years. I for one, think they and the world was better off by him being in it.
RIP Prince Philip
A life well led.
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.”
Lol
My father in law was a lawyer who traveled a lot. Once in Houston, another lawyer picked him up at the airport. This lawyer was really proud of his new Rolls Royce and couldn’t help but ask my Father in law if he had ever ridden in a Rolls. My F-I-L not impressed by the dude replied, “ yeah I’ve been in several of these things, but never in the front seat!”
Lol!
In 2003 he told a robed president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo: ‘You look like you’re ready for bed.’
After being told that Madonna was singing the Die Another Day theme in 2002: “Are we going to need ear plugs?”
He and Trump could have traded stories about which
of their comments caused the most uproar.
Rest In Peace Prince Phillip.
I think at some point endlessly playing second banana to his wife he removed all filters and just said whatever he wanted and he saw lots of odd stuff over the decades-
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