"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
news:BDD4BAAC.2D58C%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> in article prvrd.408257$%k.135983@pd7tw2no, Steph at 
> steph@vancouver.island
> wrote on 12/2/04 11:52 AM:
>
>>
>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>> news:BDD38D73.2D3C5%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>>>
>>> I didn't assume you were English, merely that you were associated with 
>>> one
>>> of the countries that once was part of their empire.
>>
>> ROTFLMAO!
>> And your starter for 10......."which empire owned the American colonies?"
>>
>
> Britain, but then it lost it in combat. The US is not part of the British
> commonwealth.
>

You said "one of the countries that was once part of their empire".
Moving the goalposts now it doesn't suit you to have said what you said?