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| The Duke(of Edinburgh)'s verbal gaffes |
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| struggling |
| 03/05/02 at 20:58:39 |
| [slm] Enjoy!!! The Duke's verbal gaffes "The ****murdered half my family." Response when asked whether he would approve of a visit to the Soviet Union, 1967. "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." Comment made during the depths of the recession, 1981. "You are a woman, aren't you?" While accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman, 1984. "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." When meeting a group of British students during a state visit to China, 1986. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" To a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a royal walkabout, 1995. "You managed not to get eaten then?" To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea, 1998. "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." On seeing a fuse box at a factory in Edinburgh, 1999. The latest in his long line of gaffes came as the royal couple visited Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park in the coastal city of Cairns, northern Queensland, and met Aboriginal elders. On being told that the park was run by two Aboriginal tribes, the Djabugay and the Yirrganydji, he responded: "Djabugay, Yirrganydji, what's it all about? Do you still throw spears at each other?" (taken from:http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/story.jsp?story=250429) |
| 03/05/02 at 21:41:54 |
| bhaloo |
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