"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
news:BDD4F29A.2D5CF%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> in article PFxrd.408966$%k.319588@pd7tw2no, Steph at 
> steph@vancouver.island
> wrote on 12/2/04 2:23 PM:
>
>>
>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>> news:BDD4BAAC.2D58C%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>>> in article prvrd.408257$%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?
>
> I said I thought he was associated with one of the counties that was
> associated with the British empire, and it turns out I was correct. My
> statement did not state or imply that America was not a former colony,
> although it is alone in being the only former colony that won its
> independence by armed conflict.

Read your own post!
You said "one of the countries that was once part of their empire". It's 
there in black and white.

>
> By the way, your domain name mentions Vancouver, which is a great city. It
> appears to have much more in common with Portland and Seattle than it does
> with Toronto or points East.
>

I live on Vancouver Island. Vancouver's a dump in a pretty spot