pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
R.I.P. Prince Philip. Rule Britannia. We will miss your gaffes.
Yeah, they don't make them like that anymore. I had heard of some of the gaffes but hadn't looked into them until now. Oooo boy !
“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.
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” – to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994.
“You’re too fat to be an astronaut” – to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip in Salford in 2001 that he wanted to go into space.
“Do you still throw spears at each other?” – in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Aboriginal entrepreneur.
“If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she’s not interested” – on the Princess Royal.
“It’s a pleasant change to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people” – to Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
August
Metanoia
Prince Phillip passed some hearing impaired children and told them not to go to close to the band or they might go deaf.
Rick Hunter
Celestial
Reminds me of my grandpa, who was also a crusty old WWII vet. I bet they would have gotten along splendidly!
michael59
Celestial
A woman took her legally blind son to meet Prince Phillip & the Queen. The Queen asked how much the child was still able to see. Prince Phillip said, "Not much judging by that tie he's wearing."
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Prince Philip was reportedly fascinated with UFOs
And without doubt had he met an actual alien from a landed flying saucer he would've provided yet another memorable comment
Anybody want to make some up?
Prince Philip was fascinated with UFOs
By Yaron Steinbuch April 13, 2021 | 1:03pm
Prince Philip reportedly had a fascination with UFOs and collected books about aliens.
In addition to his many earthly pursuits, the late Prince Philip also looked to the skies to watch for UFOs — and had amassed a large collection of books on the subject, according to reports.
The Duke of Edinburgh, who died Friday at age 99, was fascinated with close encounters and was a regular subscriber of Flying Saucer Review, a quarterly magazine established in 1955, according to the UK’s Metro.
He first developed an interest in UFOs from his uncle Lord Mountbatten, who wrote an official report about a spaceship that reportedly landed on his estate in Romsey, Hampshire, in 1955, the Sun said.
Philip had given his former assistant Sir Peter Horsley, a senior Royal Air Force commander who died in 2001 at age 80, “carte blanche” to collect stories about UFOs from the RAF, according to Metro.
In his 1997 autobiography, “Sounds From Another Room,” Horsley described his own fascination with UFOs, which began when he was Philip’s equerry, or royal attendant, from 1949 to 1956.
Horsley, who wrote about a close encounter with an “alien” in London in 1954, said he was asked to bring witnesses to Buckingham Palace for private discussions with the Duke, Metro reported.
In 2019, Philip read “The Halt Perspective,” written by retired US Air Force Col. Charles Halt, a former deputy commander of RAF Bentwaters, who described how he led a patrol to investigate an alleged UFO landing in the Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
The incident was dubbed “Britain’s Roswell” after the famous 1947 crash of a US Army Air Forces balloon in New Mexico that spawned rumors that the wreckage came from a “flying disc.”
Among the books about extraterrestrials in Philip’s collection was “Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs,” whose author, retired West Midlands detective John Hanson, said the Duke had a dozen of his works, according to Metro.
“I’ve got about 12 letters from the Duke’s private secretary that say the prince found the subject interesting,” Hanson, who co-wrote “The Halt Perspective,” told I News.
“I’m quite proud of Prince Philip, why shouldn’t he have been interested in UFOs, because for goodness’ sake, that is something that we should treat seriously rather than flippantly. It is a phenomenon that has baffled mankind for millennia,” he said.
“Even Prince Charles is interested in it and Prince William,” Hanson added.
Prince Philip reportedly subscribed to the magazine Flying Saucer Review.
In his book, Horsley claims that in 1954, he had an encounter with an alien called “Mr. Janus,” who could read his mind.
“He didn’t say he was a visitor from another planet — but I had that impression,” he wrote. “I believe he was here to observe us. I never saw him again. I have no qualms about the reaction to my experience with Mr. Janus.”
He added that Janus wished to meet Philip, whom he described as a “man of great vision
And without doubt had he met an actual alien from a landed flying saucer he would've provided yet another memorable comment
Anybody want to make some up?
Prince Philip was fascinated with UFOs
By Yaron Steinbuch April 13, 2021 | 1:03pm
Prince Philip reportedly had a fascination with UFOs and collected books about aliens.
In addition to his many earthly pursuits, the late Prince Philip also looked to the skies to watch for UFOs — and had amassed a large collection of books on the subject, according to reports.
The Duke of Edinburgh, who died Friday at age 99, was fascinated with close encounters and was a regular subscriber of Flying Saucer Review, a quarterly magazine established in 1955, according to the UK’s Metro.
He first developed an interest in UFOs from his uncle Lord Mountbatten, who wrote an official report about a spaceship that reportedly landed on his estate in Romsey, Hampshire, in 1955, the Sun said.
Philip had given his former assistant Sir Peter Horsley, a senior Royal Air Force commander who died in 2001 at age 80, “carte blanche” to collect stories about UFOs from the RAF, according to Metro.
In his 1997 autobiography, “Sounds From Another Room,” Horsley described his own fascination with UFOs, which began when he was Philip’s equerry, or royal attendant, from 1949 to 1956.
Horsley, who wrote about a close encounter with an “alien” in London in 1954, said he was asked to bring witnesses to Buckingham Palace for private discussions with the Duke, Metro reported.
In 2019, Philip read “The Halt Perspective,” written by retired US Air Force Col. Charles Halt, a former deputy commander of RAF Bentwaters, who described how he led a patrol to investigate an alleged UFO landing in the Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
The incident was dubbed “Britain’s Roswell” after the famous 1947 crash of a US Army Air Forces balloon in New Mexico that spawned rumors that the wreckage came from a “flying disc.”
Among the books about extraterrestrials in Philip’s collection was “Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs,” whose author, retired West Midlands detective John Hanson, said the Duke had a dozen of his works, according to Metro.
“I’ve got about 12 letters from the Duke’s private secretary that say the prince found the subject interesting,” Hanson, who co-wrote “The Halt Perspective,” told I News.
“I’m quite proud of Prince Philip, why shouldn’t he have been interested in UFOs, because for goodness’ sake, that is something that we should treat seriously rather than flippantly. It is a phenomenon that has baffled mankind for millennia,” he said.
“Even Prince Charles is interested in it and Prince William,” Hanson added.
Prince Philip reportedly subscribed to the magazine Flying Saucer Review.
In his book, Horsley claims that in 1954, he had an encounter with an alien called “Mr. Janus,” who could read his mind.
“He didn’t say he was a visitor from another planet — but I had that impression,” he wrote. “I believe he was here to observe us. I never saw him again. I have no qualms about the reaction to my experience with Mr. Janus.”
He added that Janus wished to meet Philip, whom he described as a “man of great vision
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