The Independent has got an article of the 99 best things Prince Phillip has said... thats not the official title ... but it should be, Bing wont like this one! Here's my TOP TEN of the list
1. "Get me a beer. I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!" - On being offered the finest Italian wines by PM Giuliano Amato at a dinner in Rome in 2000.
2. "You can't have been here that long – you haven't got a pot belly." - To a British tourist during a tour of Budapest in Hungary. 1993.
3. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" - Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.
4. "If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes." - To 21-year-old British student Simon Kerby during a visit to China in 1986.
5. "And what exotic part of the world do you come from?" - Asked in 1999 of Tory politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, whose parents are Jamaican. He replied: "Birmingham."
6. "Do you still throw spears at each other?" - Prince Philip shocks Aboriginal leader William Brin at the Aboriginal Cultural Park in Queensland, 2002.
7. "So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs." - To a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.
8. "Do people trip over you?" - Meeting a wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident in 2002.
9. "I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."- Dismissing claims that those who sell slaughtered meat have greater moral authority than those who participate in blood sports, in 1988.
10. "Where's the Southern Comfort?" - On being presented with a hamper of southern goods by the American ambassador in London in 1999.
Priceless!
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