Captain Kirk, please excuse my ignorance of the War of 1812. It was never taught in school, and even though I fancy myself a bit of a history buff, I have no vested intrest in America's most unimportant war. I do recall that I had heard you Canadians had sacked the capitol during the war. However, as I said earlier, I was quite tired at the time, and was trying to be as brief as possible, since the relevance of the War of 1812 to the topic is quite miniscule. I'm sorry if I offended you, or worse yet, reinforced your view that all Americans are slobbering dullards. And hey, who knows, perhaps one day we'll pay you back? For the capitol I mean.