Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
And yet, the British conquered a sizable portion of the world.
Oh, yes... So we did.

But that was an accident, and we thought nobody would notice. So don't tell anyone.

The mistake, I feel, was to paint red all our bits on maps of the world - makes it stand out too much. And ruling a quarter of the world from a little office (opening hours 10am-4pm) in a London side-street was a bit unseemly.

Its mostly all been given back now, so that we can tackle the more tricky task of sorting out our currency..!