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Thread #89491   Message #1690112
Posted By: Little Hawk
10-Mar-06 - 12:47 PM
Thread Name: Icons of Englishness?
Subject: RE: Icons of Englishness?
Authors: H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Ryder Haggard, Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling

The "thin red line", the RAF, and the Royal Navy. The Lancaster bomber and the Mosquito and the Hurricane (Spitfire was already mentioned).

Windsor Castle and the Tower of London and Hadrian's Wall.

Fictional Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, Allan Quatermain, Robin Hood, King Arthur, Lancelot, Galahad, Mordred, Guinevere, Maid Marion, the Lady of the Lake, Merlin.

Rude expressions: "piss off", "sod off", "bugger off", "fecking", "Cor!", Blimey!", "bloody", "sodding", "wanking".

Lovely lot, those Brits are... ;-D