"It looks as though it was put there by an Indian."
A remark made by His Royal Highness Prince Phillip on seeing a fusebox on a tour of the Racal-Mesl Ltd high-tech electronics factory. Arguably the Duke at his very best, managing to insult around one billion people with just one sentence.
At the time he was widely rebuked and lampooned for his insensitivity, and tried to pass off the comment by saying that he actually meant "cowboys" as in poor quality workmanship.
However, given the state of the athletes accommodation in India for the forthcoming commonwealth games we must now concede, surely, that this was not a "foot in mouth" gaffe, but an insightful prophesy of the future quality of Indian building work. Indeed, we should now start a campaign to remove the expression "cowboy builders" from our language, as there is little evidence to suggest that early American settlers did shoddy work, but increasing evidence to support the expression "Indian builders" in reference to a botch job. Well done Prince Phillip!
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