Prince Potty-mouth

This must be the start of a trend… this is the second time the Dutch royal family has appeared in the Mex Files.

Thursday, while Queen Beatrix spent the day doing the queen thing — wearing a big hat and waving to the little people in Guanajuato.

Being fairly well-informed on what’s of vital concern when you’re going to inherit a country known in Spanish as “Países Bajos” because it’s mostly under sea level,  I guess it was appropriate for Crown-Prince Willhelm-Alexander to spend the day in Mexico City speaking at a global warming seminar.  As heir-apparent to the throne of a former Spanish possession, and having an Argentine wife, you’d might think the guy knows Spanish.  Either he does, or doesn’t.

In the course of his remarks, His Royal Highness meant to say, “un camarón que se duerme, se lo lleva al corriente” (the sleeping shrimp will be washed away with the current) — a rather obscure bit of folk wisdom, meaning “get with the program.”

What he said instead — and actually makes more sense — was “un camarón que se duerme, se lo lleva a la chingada.

The sleeping shrimp is gonna be fucked over.

Maybe it wasn’t a “gaffe” as has been reported.