Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote:
> On 7/8/2003 10:36 PM, mtfester@netscape.net wrote:

>> Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>On 7/8/2003 11:33 AM, mtfester@netscape.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>mtfester@netscape.net wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Silvio Franke <silvio.franke@unibw-muenchen.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Scott Reynolds schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>>>>The answer is quite simple. Japan lost the war. Britain not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Odd. Britain's lost several wars, yet still there is a Commonwealth...
>>>>
>>>>>I don't think 1066 counts in this equation. Sure, they lost Hong Kong 
>>>>
>>>>I seem to recall a nation breaking away more recently than that.
>> 
>>>France?
>> 
>> Them too. Last war the French won, just about... 

> And it only took them 100 years.

Home field advantage.

Mike