We here at the Tuss are quite glad Prince Philip is out of hospital. Having sent him our kind and good thoughts, we would also like to take this opportunity to reflect back on some of the foot’n mouth disease Prince Philip has displayed over the years. Just remember, it’s a tough job being consort to the Queen, day in and day out.
- Asked a driving instructor in Scotland, “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
- When visiting a group of British students in China in 1986 he remarked, “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.”
- In 2002 Prince Philip asked an indegenious Australian businessman, “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
- In 1994 he asked a Cayman Island native, “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”
- In 1987 he wrote in the forward to If I Were an Animal that “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”
- To a British student in Papua New Guinea, “You’ve managed not to get eaten then?”
- At the height of recession in 1981 Prince Philip commented, “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they’re unemployed.”
If only there were more people to speak their minds so succinctly! We appreciate his sense of humor. It’s just that he’s in the public sector and we live in such a politically correct world that, taken out of context, some of these seem to verge on the innappropriate. Maybe it’s just us.
In Prince Philip, or PP to his close friends (which includes us here at the Tuss), we must acknowledge a super-refined sense of humor and dessert-like dry wit. The man’s joking is so heavily cloaked in faux ingnorance and non-challance that only the most accute sense of humor can even detect the comedy. Many might come away thinking Prince Philip is a baffoon or simply insensitive, and I feel sorry for those people.