Union Jacked?

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Team USA was defeated by team Korean in the World Baseball Classic. The news title says "Union Jacked: USA's Classic hopes in jeopardy".(http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp) Is "Union Jacked" a pun?
Does "union jacked" mean "the union is jacked around???" Thanks for answering in advance!!

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The Union Jack is the name given to the British flag. Thus, the title is a pun, though it would make more sense if it referred to Britons rather than Americans. Perhaps there are British players in the American team or the championships were held in the UK. Mind you, the Union Jack is also part of Australian, New Zealand and several other flags.

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[nq:1]Team USA was defeated by team Korean in the World Baseball Classic. The news title says "Union Jacked: USA's Classic hopes in jeopardy".(http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp) Is "Union Jacked" a pun? Does "union jacked" mean "the union is jacked around???" Thanks for answering in advance!![/nq]
It's an attempt at a pun, but one that should have been ruled out by the editor. Had the losing team been one from a country that incorporates the Union Jack in the country's flag, it might have been a hit. As it is, it's a foul attempt by the headline writer.

Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

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[nq:1]The Union Jack is the name given to the British flag. Thus, the title is a pun, though it would ... held in the UK. Mind you, the Union Jack is also part of Australian, New Zealand and several other flags.[/nq]
ObAue. (You'll done go 'n' woke up the pedants..)

There's disagreement as to whether the UK flag can or can't be called the "Union Jack" if it's not being flown at sea as a "jack". The Flag Institute says it can; the RN says it can't/shouldn't. If you're interested, it's discussed here (scroll down to '"Union Jack" or "Union Flag"'):
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/union-jack/union-jack.html

Cheers, Harvey
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[nq:1]Does "union jacked" mean "the union is jacked around???"[/nq]
The Union Flag or flag of the union or England, Scotland and Ireland is flown at the Jack Staff of Her Majesty's ships, at sea.

The flag is also used on public buildings as the occasion demands. (It is flown lower than the Red Dragon in Wales if both are in use.) The author has misused the term and it is commonly misused with that name.

Jacking-in or jacking a job is slang for ending one's contract. You can say that you jacked but you can't jack someone ellse. So it isn't a good pun. But they don't have to be, in the newspaper trade.

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[nq:2]Does "union jacked" mean "the union is jacked around???"[/nq]
[nq:1]The Union Flag or flag of the union or England, Scotland and Ireland is flown at the Jack Staff of Her Majesty's ships, at sea.[/nq]
I was surprised, though, to find that the Flag Institute and, apparently, various statutes, but not the RN accept the name "Union Jack" for non-jacked flags. (Who'da thunk..)

I gave this link elsethread, but it made for interesting reading the guy has info not only from the Flag Institute and RN sites, but some correspondence with the RN about it. (It's about 2/3 of the way down the page.)
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/union-jack/union-jack.html

Cheers, Harvey
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[nq:1]The Union Jack is the name given to the British flag. Thus, the title is a pun, though it would ... held in the UK. Mind you, the Union Jack is also part of Australian, New Zealand and several other flags.[/nq]
And also part of the flag of one American state.

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[nq:2]The Union Jack is the name given to the British ... also part of Australian, New Zealand and several other flags.[/nq]
[nq:1]And also part of the flag of one American state.[/nq]
Really? Which one?
DC

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[nq:2]And also part of the flag of one American state.[/nq]
[nq:1]Really? Which one?[/nq]
Hawaii, is my guess.

Cheers, Harvey
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[nq:1]On 14 Mar 2006, Django Cat wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Really? Which one?[/nq]
[nq:1]Hawaii, is my guess.[/nq]
AKA the Sandwich Islands. (As opposed to the South Sandwch Islands.)

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[nq:1]I gave this link elsethread, but it made for interesting reading the guy has info not only from the Flag Institute and RN sites, but some correspondence with the RN about it. (It's about 2/3 of the way down the page.) http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/union-jack/union-jack.html[/nq]
There would be ****** **** to pay if their lordships had tried this these days:
" in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that "the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag"."
It isn't the British flag. It might be the one used by the British armed forces but the Welsh have their own separate and entirely different flag. It just goes to show how much even modern cultures change. The Scots are quiescent about their language as long as nobody tries to stop them wearing dresses.
The Welsh forced the British government to write road signs in Welsh. But I doubt that the Welsh troops would go to the same lengths that the Scottish once did when they were ordered to wear trousers rather than kilts.They died almost to a man in the mutiny that it sparked IIRC.

Nationalists are as thick as pigshit but at least no-one got hurt this time.
I wonder where the term jack came from so that it was applied to ship's flags.

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