Prince Philip strikes again

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fucking html!!

― chris, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

where and why does it matter that hes greek ?

― anthony, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Your HTML skeelz are beneath contempt, but on that page it's got about the new mar shy Essex airport plan which I would be interested to hear DG's views on.

I say bring back the Maplin Sands plan. Floating airports! Show the Japanese who's boss.

― N., Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i cannot see anything about Philip there! anthony, we just call him that over in Blighty. no particular reason other than that he is Greek.

― katie, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's his old nickname from Spitting Image Anthony, nothing more nothing less.

Anyway, basically he asked Aborigines in Australia whether they "still threw spears at each other" the man is a social menace.

― chris, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That story was there a minute ago?? where's it gone?

― chris, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It has been deleted. And soon so will you, you horrid tax-evading pleb.

― The Establishment, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anthony: ppl not entirely convinced by the system of monarchy enjoy pointing out to patriots that the British Royal Family = liz the german + phil the greek

philip = most bored man alive

― mark s, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not been deleted. It's here

― N., Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ah, ok . sorry . that man seems to be a moron at best

― anthony, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Curses! Foiled by the arrogant-yet-tasty Dastoor and his research skills!

― The Establishment, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone know if there's a particular reason why Private Eye calls The Queen 'Brenda'?

― Andrew L, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Research skills in this context = being able to follow a link from the front page of a news website.

Who's behind 'The Establishment'?

― N., Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It has been deleted. And soon so will you, you horrid tax-evading pleb.

awww I love you.

― chris, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ian Edgington I think.

― Pete, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the establishment runs a bar. and never gets ill?

― gareth, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

damn, he nipped in before me

― gareth, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

brenda = part of PE's haha acute mid-70s insight that the royal fambly are a bit dowdy and lower-middle clars in cultural attitude, hence deserved komikal suburban-type names

to be fair i am probably the only person in the world who remembers this

― mark s, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck the Maplin Sands plan and this new plan for the Isle of Grain. I'm praying it will be thrown out on environmental grounds.

― David Inglesfield, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They'd better not build that fuXing airport, the A12 will be even more fuX0red than it is already (3rd most dangerous road in the country is the Romford stretch). Building it at RAF Manston is a good idea as nothng ever seems to happen there and they've got a nice big runway, and if it could be linked to the Channel Tunnel rail link (whatever's going on with that?) it could be nifty.

― DG, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's DG! (Of internet's ILE fame) How's it going, eh?

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello there! Erm, I'm here every day Alan!

― DG, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maplin Sands - possible inspiration for Hi-De-Hi?

I'm wary of people who call the Queen "The Queen".

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I WAS CONSIDERING POSTING THIS TOO, BUT IM PLEASED THE ABORIGINE DIDNT TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY.

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maplin Sands - possible inspiration for Hi-De-Hi?

No Robin. They're desolate sandbanks off Foulness, exposed at low tide and inhabited only by birds (also used as firing ranges by the M.O.D. I think).

― David Inglesfield, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a link to a short list of Prince Philip's more extraordinary outburts, compiled by BBC News.

― Chris Lyons, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fucking hell Chris, the time for a British republic is nigh.

I was just testing David on Maplin Sands: Maplins *was* the name of Perry and Croft's Butlinsalike, wasn't it? Slightly caught offguard by his use of the word "fuck" because that is so unlike him (though I agree with what he intended to say). I'm not so polite myself, I'm a fucking maniac.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At least he doesn't excercise actual power, Robin; we've got Dubya to contend with.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

These less objectionable when they were presented as the Black Adder series.

― Hunter, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maplins *was* the name of Perry and Croft's Butlinsalike, wasn't it?

Looks like you're right after all Robin. I was never a fan of the series but the holiday camp was a godforsaken place wasn't it? In which case the choice of name was probably an allusion to a ridiculously windswept, desolate seaside location (in SE English terms).

― David Inglesfield, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

phil the greek is piss funny - ibet willie and hank get together behind his back and play traciks...remember when grandad ruined a factory vat full of cheese last time he was in oz?

― Queen G, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess that's where they got the name from! Though if you want the aesthetic sense they were after in Hi-De-Hi, which I never liked either, you only need to look at the early holiday camp photos in "Boring Postcards".

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He once had an affair with Gyles Brandreth's cleaning lady, you know.

― James Mitchell, Friday, 4 April 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

I think if were a major royal I'd behave a bit like Phil, just to allieviate the boredom.

― chap, Friday, 4 April 2008 13:38 (seventeen years ago)

He is not a man, but a God.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 4 April 2008 13:40 (seventeen years ago)

Ha, I love that, that's one of my favourite facts.

― chap, Friday, 4 April 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

During the tour, the Duke of Edinburgh chatted to Matthew Trewhella, a developer advocate who promotes his organisation's products to companies.

He asked the Google worker, who was dressed casually in a hooded top, chinos and trainers: "Just come back from jogging?"

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 October 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago)

― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Thursday, 16 October 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 October 2008 15:17 (sixteen years ago)

Fair question!

― Neil S, Thursday, 16 October 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

"Come play the Loch with me sometime?"

"Sure! When?"

"Ha-HAH. Never."

― rent, Thursday, 16 October 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago)

I've heard of playing the field, but playing the loch?

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 October 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

like this http://www.lochlomond.com/main.html

― rent, Thursday, 16 October 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Simon-Cowell-Says-Prince-Philip-Called-Him-A-Sponger---Palace-Defends-The-Duke/Article/200903415248843?lpos=Showbiz_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15248843_Simon_Cowell_Says_Prince_Philip_Called_Him_A_Sponger_-_Palace_Defends_The_Duke

― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

This picture is on the cover of the NYTimes today. First reaction: is it just me, or does Philip look like he's giddily holding back one of his trademark zingers?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/04/02/nyregion/02ipod_650.jpg

(Second reaction: googling to delight in some of Philip's past zingers, and learning that his score this time was to make a joke to Obama about all the G20 heads of state looking the same.)

― nabisco, Thursday, 2 April 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

If dude did not exist, Ricky Gervaise would have to invent him

― nabisco, Thursday, 2 April 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

Philip looks like he's already thought of what offensive thing he's gonna say to Obama in his mind and is just trying to wait a a few extra seconds before letting rip

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 2 April 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)

i mean yes you OTM

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 2 April 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)

(xpost) I don't think that HRH Phil has that much self control...

― snoball, Thursday, 2 April 2009 17:43 (sixteen years ago)

On the news last night, that photo is I think of the Duke smiling as Obama basically says all the talks he attended were ulktra-boring.

― James Morrison, Thursday, 2 April 2009 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26482059-5003402,00.html

― estela, Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

― jabba hands, Monday, 14 December 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago)

Stephen, from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, said: "I think Prince Philip was just trying to break the ice and put me at ease."

― afa the i can c (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 December 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago)