"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
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> 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?"