Prince Philip's Finest

Apparently, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and consort to Queen Elizabeth II has a colorful history of verbal gaffes. I was WEEPING with laughter at some of his comments which were thoughtfully collected here:

"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (At a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)

I'm Cantonese. That's hilarious.

"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease". (When asked if he would like to stroke a koala bear).

"Do you still throw spears at each other?" (To an Aborigine leader)

whilst in Australia.

"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" (Amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting)

The man has a point though timing was probably a bit off.