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alkhoon. 24. arab. anglophile. muslim. ankh-morporkian. loves history. feels that she was born in the wrong century. books. georgette heyer. movies, mini series, & tv addict. eddie izzard. classical music. screwball comedies. cheesecake. whodunits. british countryside. disney. pratchett. horses. 1700s. 1800s. 1900s.

UK TV Blackadder, Monty Python, 'Allo 'Allo, Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, French & Saunders, Top Gear, My Family, Jeeves and Wooster, Chef, A Bit Of Fry & Laurie, As Time Goes By, Hornblower, Sharpe, Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend, Spooks, Doctor Who, Elizabeth I (Hugh Dancy), The Brittas Empire, Little Britain, Robin Hood, Black Books, Kingdom, Life on Mars, QI, Mock the Week, Goodness Gracious Me, Absolute Power, The IT Crowd, Would I Lie to You, Cranford, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Jane Eyre (2006), Jekyll, Oliver Twist (2007), Sense & Sensibility (2007), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Palace, Foyle's War, Jam & Jerusalem, Extras, Doc Martin, Primeval, State of Play, Coupling.

US TV I Love Lucy, House, Lost, Friends, Veronica Mars, Desperate Housewives, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Grey's Anatomy, Firefly, Heroes, Bones, Supernatural, Ugly Betty, Life, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Battlestar Galactica.

LITERATURE
Georgette Heyer, Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers series), Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci series), Jeffery Farnol, J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Elizabeth Gaskell, Eva Ibbotson, Jane Austen, Fanny Burney (Evelina), Baroness Orczy (The Scarlet Pimpernel), Oscar Wilde, Angie Sage, Garth Nix, P.G. Wodehouse, C. S. Forester, Patricia Wentworth, Frederick Marryat (The Children of the New Forest)

FILMS
All Disney cartoons, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, It Happened One Night, To Kill a King, Blackbeard's Ghost, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Sound of Music, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Batman Begins, Singin' in the Rain, The Court Jester, How to Steal a Million, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Indiana Jones, The Thin Man, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mary Poppins, His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, Kiss Me Kate, Ever After, A Shot in the Dark, The Italian Job (1969), Back to the Future, Iron Man, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

QUOTES
"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. "
- The Count, The Count of Monte Cristo

"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
- Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest

"Oh, Edmund, can it be true? that I hold here, in my mortal hand, a nugget of purest green?"
- Lord Percy, Blackadder II

"Erm, er, yes, er, well, Lord Whiteadder, er, a vow of silence... Now; that's quite an interesting thing... Tell me about it."
- Lord Percy, Blackadder II

Capt. Darling: Look, I'm as British as Queen Victoria.
E. Blackadder: So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German?
- Blackadder Goes Forth

"Cake or Death?"
- Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill

"You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur King," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts."
- French Soldier, Monty Python and the Holy Grail