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== Web Comics ==
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** Ardsley Wooster (who is definitely British) usually also counts as this (except for that one time with Gil...).
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** As a joke, from Trelawney Thorpe. She [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180216 won't deny] killing some scallawags now and then, but — before elevenses? Shocking!
* Lampshaded in [http://www.dorktower.com/2005/07/12/comics-archive-697/ this] ''[[Dork Tower]]'' comic strip.
* ''[[Wrong Hands]]'' presents: [https://wronghands1.com/2018/05/18/victorian-emoticons/ Victorian emoticons].
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* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] was once caught in a bomb shelter in [[World War 2]]. So she spent her time translating Dante. [[Fridge Brilliance|perhaps]] [[War Is Hell|not so incongruous]] at that.
* [[Lady of War|Violette Szabo]] who was a great British war heroine and by the way, [[I Was Quite a Looker|a gorgeous hunk]] by all accounts, was in Paris on a mission for the [[SOE]]. While the Germans were eagerly looking for her she finished her mission. On the way out she stopped by a store and bought presents for her daughter. Because, well, [[Fridge Brilliance|what are you supposed to do]] in Paris anyway?
* Major Patrick Leigh of the [[SOE]] and a mixed party of British and Resistance operatives in World War Two were on a hostile extraction of the German military governor of Crete. They ambushed his car, and knocked out the driver then took it through twenty-two roadblocks on the way to the escape boat beached at a rendezvous. Along the point they passed Mount Ida, the mythical birthplace of Zeus wherein Leigh and the prisoner fell to discussing classical poetry before being evacuated to Egypt.
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