TheBanyanTree: Remembrance day: the other victims

[Tom Smith]

> Ah, yes, Rupert.  Not one of ours, not any more.  We gave him to the 
> British as pay-back for convicts, and we believe the British passed 
> him to the US as payback for certain events in and around 1776 and 
> 1812. (Compare this with the vengeful gifting of golf from Scotland 
> to England, who passed it to the US, who passed it on to Japan as 
> payback for Pearl Harbour.)

(laughing)  Thank you Peter for updating me on the facts in so 
entertaining a way!

Tom