[Jack]

For more 'father of the future king' jollity, look at the unsourced quotes here:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh

The more you read, the more you come to see that there's a kind of crazy genius to the misfirings of that man's brain.  I keep on expecting to wake up one morning and find he's on the news for shotgunning peasants or something. 

[Jack]

That's his typical hand gesture.  If you watch any impressionist worth their salt, they pick up on it and exaggerate it.  Unfortunately, he has some of the tendency of his father to commit faux-pas, this being a humourous but not atypical example.

He is a genuinely lovely man, Prince Charles, who might be slightly out of touch with reality, but is making a real effort to make the world a better place.  The Prince's Trust does an enormous amount of very good work with deprived kids and apart from setting it up and bankrolling it through his Duchy Organics company, he is very involved in the running and functioning of the trust and active for many other worthy causes round the world.  But yeah, he can be a little strange at times.  Still, thank god he's not like his dad, Prince Philip!  Hmm, let me find some examples of his dad's 'charmingly xenophobic' behaviour…

    * While talking to Lord Taylor of Warwick who is a black British politician:
      “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”
      Lord Taylor: “I’m from Birmingham.”

    * Offering an easy solution to London’s congestion problems:
      “The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop tourism, we could stop the congestion.”

    * On the problem of travelling the world in comfort:
      “If you travel as much as we do you appreciate how much more comfortable aircraft have become. Unless you travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”
   
* While talking to an Aboriginal Elder on a visit to Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park:
      “Do you still throw spears at each other?”

    * Ever the sincere, this was said to deaf people in Cardiff while the school steel band played:
      “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.”

    * Following the inspection on a dodgy looking fusebox that had just put the lights out:
      “It looks like it was put in by Indians.”

    * While meeting with students who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea:
      “You managed not to get eaten, then?”

    * During a Royal Visit to the Cayman Islands:
      “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”

    * During a visit to China, Philip met with a group of British students:
      “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all get slitty-eyed.”

    * Said during the particularly nasty British recession of 1981 when unemployment was rocketing:
      “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.”

    * Said to Canadians during a Royal Visit:
      “We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves”

and finally (and my personal favourite):

    * While chatting to a driving instructor in Scotland:
      “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”

Quod erat demonstrandum, I think. 

[Jack]

Heh heh!  I like the 8'6" version too (as does the announcer, who seems to be unashamedly staring at her face-level boobs!).  Love you mini-gts muscle morphs in particular, man.  Thanks for sharing them with us!

[Jack]

Welcome, Jean!  We've all admired your art for a long time. 

[Jack]

Cool.  Great to see FBBs getting some exposure and recognition in Europe (and especially in the UK!).  I hope the spotlight on Jana will help raise the profile of the sport and encourage people to give it the respect it deserves.  Best of luck to you both!

[Jack]

Hooray!  Lovely morphs.  Great work on them.  Thanks, man!

[Jack]

Hmm… I don't have an avatar cos I'm not sure of what pic to put there and I only have a very few minutes each day to flit though the postings here.

(By the way, am I the only person who thinks Lingster's new avatar makes him look a bit like Sylar from Heroes?!  I'm holding on to the top of my head just in case!)

[Jack]

I think my favourite growth spurt is from 'The Supergirl Phenomenon' where there's lots of gorgeously described growth as women all over a city inexplicably turn into super amazons.  Yum!

[Jack]

Cool link man, thanks!  I've always liked his artwork and am a great fan of vascularity but massive veins on the head are a turn-off for me.  Great art, though. 

[Jack]

Gorgeous renders.  I also love the POV aspects of the pic too – so rare in femuscle pics.  Thanks, man!

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