“You ARE a woman, aren’t you?” Kenya, 1984.ģ9. At a WF meeting in 1986: “If it has four legs and it’s not a chair, if it’s got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it’s not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”ģ8. To Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”ģ7. To Cayman Islanders: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”ģ6. To then Paraguay dictator General Stroessner: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”ģ5. To the Scottish WI in 1961: “British women can’t cook.”ģ4. On Tom Jones, 1969: “It’s difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.”ģ3. On stress counselling for servicemen in 1995: “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002: “If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”ģ1. After Dunblane massacre, 1996: “If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?”ģ0. On the new £18million British Embassy in Berlin in 2000: “It’s a vast waste of space.”Ģ9. People don’t seem to make up their minds what they want.”Ģ8. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining they’re unemployed. On the 1981 recession: “A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. To a civil servant, 1970: “You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.”Ģ7. To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”Ģ6. At party in 2004: “Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!”Ģ5. Using Hitler’s title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1997, he called him: “Reichskanzler.”Ģ3. On the Duke of York’s house, 1986: “It looks like a tart’s bedroom.”Ģ2. “I never see any home cooking – all I get is fancy stuff.” 1987Ģ1. In Canada in 1976: “We don’t come here for our health.”Ģ0. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.”ġ9. To Lockerbie residents after plane bombing, 1993: “People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. Peering at a fuse box in a Scottish factory, he said: “It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” He later backtracked: “I meant to say cowboys.”ġ8. To Atul Patel at reception for influential Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”ġ7. His verdict on Stoke-on-Trent, during a visit in 1997: “Ghastly.”ġ6. To a British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”ġ5. To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”ġ4. ![]() To deaf children by steel band, 2000: “Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.”ġ3. I now declare this place more open than usual.”ġ2. At Hertfordshire University, 2003: “During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, ‘More open than usual’. His description of Beijing, during a visit there in 1986: “Ghastly.”ġ1.
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