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« Reply #1 on: Monday, May 30, 2011, 13:50:56 »

He should get his own stand up show, some of those one liners are class. A few of my favourites for those who can't be bothered reading the whole list....

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7. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.
9. "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." The Prince's verdict of a fuse box during a tour of a Scottish factory in August 1999. He later clarified his comment: "I meant to say cowboys. "I just got my cowboys and Indians mixed up."
17. "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After glancing at business chief Atul Patel's name badge during a 2009 Buckingham Palace reception for 400 influential British Indians to meet the Royal couple.
20. "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" To a wheelchair-bound Susan Edwards, and her guide dog Natalie in 2002.
22. "I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family." In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.
36. "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."
38. "It doesn't look like much work goes on at this University." Overheard at Bristol University's engineering facility. It had been closed so that he and the Queen could officially open it in 2005.
45. "You could do with losing a little bit of weight." To hopeful astronaut, 13-year-old Andrew Adams.
75. "They're not mating are they?" Spotting two robots bumping in to one another at the Science Museum in 2000.
82. "I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit." Said to a woman solicitor.
85. "This could only happen in a technical college." On getting stuck in a lift between two floors at the Heriot Watt University, 1958.
89. "My son...er...owns them." On being asked on a Canadian tour whether he knew the Scilly Isles.

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