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Peter Parka

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  • Seeing there's just been a couple of new programs on showing what a great guy he is I thought these quotes from him over the years were worth bringing up.
  • During a state visit to China in 1986, he famously told a group of British students: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".
  • He also asked a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"
  • "British women can't cook." (1966)
  • "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)
  • "Bloody silly fool!" (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who failed to recognise him)
  • "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)
  • "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (in 1999, to young deaf people in Cardiff, referring to a school's steel band)
  • "They must be out of their minds." (in 1982, in the Solomon Islands, after being told that the annual population growth was only 5%
  • "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 bear)
  • "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)
  • "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)
  • "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle." - said to a man who lived in a road where 11 people had been killed by wreakage from the Pan Am jumbo jet, on visit to Lockerbie in 1993.
  • "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" speaking to Susan Edwards, who is blind, wheelchair bound and has a guide dog.
 
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