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Time you carked it

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 4:40 pm

Bridgit Gread

Categories: Freaks, Them crazy...

Tags: JamieDurie, oldfarts, PrincePhilip, royalty

There’s no better advertisement for an Australian republic than wizened old wogboy Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (whom, it should be noted, Edinburghians hold no particular affection for). Every time Big Phil opens his wrinkly lips, little bits of sour Edwardian elitism fly out, like venom from a senile old cobra:

Jamie Durie, the designer of the … Australian Garden at the [Chelsea Flower] show … had been showing the Duke around the showpiece when he put his royal visitor right. “It was my first experience of Prince Philip. He said to me, ‘I do like your tree fern’. I said, ‘Actually, it’s not a tree fern, it’s a member of the Cycad family. It’s a Macrozamia moorei’. With that, he walked off. “I didn’t want a bloody lecture,” Prince Philip was heard to mutter.

Sucks to be wrong, Phil, but I guess it must smart - especially when you’ve had a lifetime of constantly being told you’re right. Not his silliest remark by a long stretch though, having noted - shortly after the Dunblane school shootings - that guns are no more dangerous than cricket bats. And that he’d like to be reincarnated as a virus in order to solve the world’s overpopulation. And any number of similarly racist, bigoted and offensive comments.

11 Comments

The Editor (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 4:43 pm) #

I’ve actually just gained the tiniest little bit of respect for Jamie Dury.
Chade (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 4:46 pm) #

Hehe: “Mr Durie is a celebrity television gardener in Australia, having previously worked as a stripper with a group called ManPower.”
Just in case no-one knew. Whaddya mean it’s not relevant to the story?!

Mind you, I always wondered how the Queen continues to put up with the old codger…
Bridgit Gread (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 4:47 pm) #

He should’ve said “That ain’t no tree fern, grandpa, are you blind?”
Zombie Mao (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 4:56 pm) #

I blame inbreeding and dementia.

Actually, it is suspected he is being treated for dementia. The inbreeding can’t be treated though.
cosmicjester (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 4:58 pm) #

Ive wondered with the republic thing, do we have to wait for the change to stop printing the queen on our coins? Is there any law saying we cant put someone else’s mug on the coints for a change? I hate looking at the double chin grow and grow.
Judas Kiss (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 5:05 pm) #

That champion of the republic, Whitlam, looks like a bit of a fossil too.
Tony T. (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 5:59 pm) #

I’m with the Duke. I hate Actually people. Tree ferns will do me. I wish Phil had been heard to mutter “Actually, shut up.”

Bet Durie says “I knew that” AFTER the right answers are given at trivia nights.
spuddgunner (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 6:06 pm) #

If anyone is to be immortalised on a coin, it should be Don Dunstan in hotpants with bikkies.
http://www.australian-politics-books.com/ccp0-prodshow/don-dunstans-cookbook.html>
alister (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 7:46 pm) #

Compare:

…wizened old wogboy…

with:

And any number of similarly racist, bigoted and offensive comments.

Just you wait - there’ll be winged monkeys at 2 o’clock before you know it.
Bridgit Gread (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 9:13 pm) #

You’re right - ‘wog’ is almost a term of affection here now. I should have used ‘wanker’.
Bruce (Thursday 22 May 2008, 6:06 pm) #

You’re just trying to get out of sight of the LaRouchists’ cross-hairs aren’t you? You and your global warming!

It’s genocide! GENOCIDE!

[end hysteria]