RIP Phil the Greek
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From the NY Times:
He was said to have so little patience with horse racing that he had his top hat fitted with a radio so that he could listen to cricket matches when he escorted the queen to her favorite spectator sport.
Top bloke.
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RIP to an absolutely real one. His entire family were actual Nazis and pedos, but he had a preternatural ability to crack great offensive jokes.
Just imagine Prince Phillip on Opie and Anthony, or riffing hard with Shane Gillis and Nick Mullen on Cum Town. Cracking hard on Italians ...
chef's kiss
We have lost so many ways to use the word "wog" tonight.
Rest In Peace, sweet prince.
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@pakman said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@tim said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Just imagine the esoteric terms he had for French people.
You can’t.
Sadly.
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@mn5 said in RIP Phil the Greek:
He’s got his own death thread on the fern.
You sense he would have appreciated the honour....
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Of course the Herald gets straight to the most important thing. What do Harry and Meghan think?
Watching a program on Phil and hearing the story about his mother and how she sheltered Jews from the Nazis at some risk to her life. Not something they shouted about.
Kinda puts Megan's current travails in perspective.
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@victor-meldrew said in RIP 2021:
Of course the Herald gets straight to the most important thing. What do Harry and Meghan think?
Watching a program on Phil and hearing the story about his mother and how she sheltered Jews from the Nazis at some risk to her life. Not something they shouted about.
Kinda puts Megan's current travails in perspective.
Imagine your mother in law referring to you as The Hun. Makes you want to run away to California....
Sounds like a funny guy, kept it real on more than one occasion much to some people's horror
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@snowy said in RIP Phil the Greek:
One more year and he would have got a message from his wife.
Wonder what that would have been?Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl. She really did love him.
A couple of years ago the son and his partner were doing the Windsor Castle walkthrough while we were in the pub. ('Two Brewers' if you are looking for a good one there) and while others in their group went rushing from item to item they stopped to just look out a window onto a courtyard. A door opened and out came Lizzie with a couple of dogs, a car pulls up and out hops Phil. She has a big smile and goes and gives him a hug. They luckily witnessed a totally real and candid moment between the two.
My own little experience was more formal but we got an invite to one of the garden parties at the big London house and then got selected to meet the old girl as she wandered through the garden. Anyway it is all quite formal and you get introduced etc. The wife and I use different surnames and because of a quirk in the way it was set up ended up standing on either side of a couple of friends. Anyway she has her little chat along the line to the others. Work talk. Then gets to me. 'and what brings you here Crucial?'. I pointed to the wife and said 'I'm just here as support and logistics for her'. She actually laughed and said 'Oh, I have one of those as well'.
After she moved on to the next group and we were released we had so many people come up and asked how we made her smile and laugh. The 'joke' was weak so I can only assume it was thinking about the silly old bugger. -
@crucial said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl.
Yeah, me to. I wasn't having a crack. In fact he really should have had a formal message from her previously. How long do you have to be married to hear from Liz?
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Fascinating article. You wonder if his comments on how many pakeha viewed maori pretty much chimed with what quite a few maori thought at the time. A few of my maori friends saw Pakeha as generally being anti-discrimination but not quite understanding issues from a maori perspective.
Been interesting here in the UK to hear many black and Asian leaders praise him - even for his humour and gaffes. They seemed to see him as someone who just took the the piss out of anyone.