The wit and wisdom of Prince Philip

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"Phil's a funny guy. "

Why thank you! Oh sorry, you meant the Prince, oh well ^^; . Y'know, Phil's quite a royal name There's been quite a lot of kings with that name.

Who is like Jade Goody here: Prince Philip for saying what he says or me for quoting him (or both)?

I'll say this much for Prince Philip: at least he's not as bad as Vincent Ferrer or Torquemada.

i like him. he is amusing to me. i have been interested in his gaffes for years. most of them i only know are gaffes after seeing the public disapproval. then i realize how it was a gaffe. if i saw the comment in isolation from any commentary, i would not know they are gaffes.

my 2nd favorite is: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle." (Said on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet).

here is a link to some of them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/416992.stm

there was once a page i had bookmarked about 3 computers ago which had about 100 classic gaffes.

I can't believe anyone would even consider comparing Churchill quotes to Prince Phillip’s gaffes.

Definition of a politician:

I was extremely sarcastic, in case you didn't notice.

Remember this

Reading what Dawkins says about "kin-selection", what Gromit has pointed out is quite profound.

In social experiments, people forced to choose between outcomes to a tragedy, when each outcome leads to someone getting killed, prefer the outcome affecting only "involved" people, instead of "bystanders". for example, say I can send an out of control rail carriage into one siding, killing one pedestrian trapped there by accident, or another siding killing 5 railroad employees doing maintenance. People usually chose the other siding with the 5 employees, even though that means 5 people die instead of one. This is because the pedestrian is a "bystander", who is trapped by accident, and the railroad employees know the risks and are on the line on purpose, making them "involved" or "party" to the situation.

In respect to Gromit's quote, random chopping can, indeed, be frowned upon.