"The Best of Prince Philip" joke

My favorite member of the British royal family (make that my favourite member) is Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband to Queen Elizabeth II. He gets my vote not only because of our shared first name, but also because of his wonderful habit for saying the very worst thing at the worst possible time -- and always when microphones are about.

Prince Philip's gaffes have brought grief to many royal handlers, but there is a good number of Brits who secretly love his foot-in-mouth disease. While I acknowledge Prince Philip's penchant for the politically incorrect, I have to admit that he is hilarious in a Borat sort of way.

Via Wikipedia, I bring you the best of Prince Philip:

Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, "You are a woman, aren't you?""If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (1986)In 1966 he remarked that "British women can't cook." To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"On a visit to the new Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, "Deaf? No wonder you are deaf standing so close to that racket."He asked an Indigenous Australian, "Still throwing spears?"
Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, "You can't have been here that long – you haven't got a pot belly."
To the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional African robes, "You look like you're ready for bed!"
To Lord Taylor of Warwick, who is black: "And what exotic part of the world do you come from?" Lord Taylor: "I'm from Birmingham."
Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh factory, HRH remarked that it looked "like it was put in by an Indian".During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Beijing as "ghastly". "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands).At Salford University, he told a 13 year old aspiring astronaut: "Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat."

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