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Subject:What is "Jury-rigged"? (NO VANAGON CONTENT)
From:Rachel Cogent
Date:Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:27:11 -0700

Entity Jere & Beth Hawn spoke thus:

> Dan,
>
> I have/had the same problem however I've jury-rigged

Q: what exactly is "jury rigged"? I always thought maybe this was a WW2
slang, possibly offensive, borrowed from the Germans (Jerrys, Jerrycan,
etc).
Maybe some of you old-timers/Germans/pedants can expound...

Gnarlodious