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What a laugh that man is. I just read the following article (from tvnz.co.nz) and it's hilarious.

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The Duke of Edinburgh has put his foot in his mouth again to continue his long line of conversational blunders.

Prince Phillip was at a Buckingham Palace garden party when he struck up a conversation with man by asking what he did for a living.

The man said he was a designer, to which the 88 year-old royal replied: "well you didn't design your beard too well did you?"

UK corespondent Malcolm Stuart says the remark left the guest speechless.

The Duke has a long history of embarrassing moments and while visiting China in 1986 infamously told a group of British students: "if you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".

Prince Philip's most recent blunder was during the first visit by the newly elected American President Barack Obama.

Obama said: "I had breakfast with the Prime Minister, meetings with the Chinese, the Russians, David Cameron... to which Prince Philip replied: "Can you tell the difference between them?"

Other highlights include:

"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" (Question to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland.

"Still throwing spears?" (Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit in March 2002)

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." (during the 1981 recession)

"We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it." (commenting in 1995 on modern stress counselling for servicemen)

"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?" (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting)

"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." (in 1999, referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh)

"You are a woman, aren't you?" (in 1984, in Kenya, to a native woman who had presented him with a small gift)

"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in 1991, in Thailand, after accepting a conservation award)

"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." (in 1992 in Australia, when asked to stroke a Koala)

"You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." (in 1993, to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary)

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)

"You managed not to get eaten, then?" (in 1998, to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea)

I may not be popular for saying it but I must agree with his comment about guns (and cricket bats), but that isn't the point. Thought it would be good for a laugh if anyone is having a bad day. loyalgunner2009-08-24 13:25:13