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  • #76
    Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
    There's no Union Jack?
    I guess it is a cruelty to dispell the happy delusions of youth, but, IW, there is no such thing as Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy, or a Union Jack.
    A Jack is a flag flown at the Jackstaff - and the national flag is never flown at the jackstaff and can therefore never be referred to as a jack.

    /me [1] is still being a pedant *
    "Our words are backed by empty wine bottles! - SG(2)
    "One of our Scouse Gits is missing." - -Jrabbit

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    • #77
      Ah ha! I heard that before, but it had escaped me.

      why is the national flag never flown at the jackstaff? What is?
      Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
      "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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      • #78
        /me has no idea what a jackstaff is; dictionary.com is no help...

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        • #79
          /me ponders the stupidity of dictionary.com.
          /me comes up with "american" as the answer.
          Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
          "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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          • #80
            Fear my new avatar!

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            • #81
              Originally posted by Zopperoni
              Fear my new avatar!
              Boy, that's a cute Avatar.


              Is that what you had in mind?

              Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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              • #82
                Originally posted by Zopperoni
                Fear my new avatar!
                ...
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                "Corporation, n, An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce
                "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklin
                "Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson

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                • #83
                  Creepy, he's dancing in time to Slipknot - Wait and Bleed...
                  I never know their names, But i smile just the same
                  New faces...Strange places,
                  Most everything i see, Becomes a blur to me
                  -Grandaddy, "The Final Push to the Sum"

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                  • #84
                    Take that off know LordAzreal, before MrFun sees it.
                    Grrr | Pieter Lootsma | Hamilton, NZ | grrr@orcon.net.nz
                    Waikato University, Hamilton.

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                    • #85
                      Originally posted by Grrr
                      Take that off know LordAzreal, before MrFun sees it.
                      Why?

                      I'm only making my anti-banana stance clear to all. What's MrFun got to do with it?
                      "Corporation, n, An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce
                      "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklin
                      "Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson

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                      • #86
                        Hes the leader of the Strawberry Republic.
                        I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                        • #87
                          Originally posted by ixnay37
                          * ixnay37 has no idea what a jackstaff is; dictionary.com is no help...
                          Chamber's is not much better - defining jackstaff as the staff at which a jack(flag) is flown :doh:
                          A jack, however, is defined as a small flag (smaller than an ensign) flown at the bow of a vessel to indicate it's nationality.
                          So - why can't a small Union Flag be flown as a jack
                          Chamber's continues to describe 'Union Jack' as a misnomer for 'Union Flag' - the plot thickens.
                          Certainly I recall being taught (back in the late paleolithic when I was young) that only the ignorant hoi poloi would refer to a Union Jack and we superior (public school) people should know better --- yeah it was really like that then - you youngsters did not miss much in post-war Britain.

                          Any real mariners out there able to shed some light on this???

                          SG[1]
                          "Our words are backed by empty wine bottles! - SG(2)
                          "One of our Scouse Gits is missing." - -Jrabbit

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                          • #88
                            /me consults his mariner father.

                            Union Flag == Union Jack

                            *shrug*
                            Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
                            "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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                            • #89
                              Anyone have a good yin/yang avatar?
                              -->Visit CGN!
                              -->"Production! More Production! Production creates Wealth! Production creates more Jobs!"-Wendell Willkie -1944

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                              • #90
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