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Subject:Re: pretend it's already Friday (was RE: Spare-tire Pan Bolt Spec
From:George Goff
Date:Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:28:21 EDT
In a message dated 9/23/04 11:38:27 PM, jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU writes:

<< jerry-rigged - doesn't relate to anything, I think.  Jerry cans?  I don't
know what they are anyway. >>

According to a drunk etymologist I ran into at a go-go bar years ago, it
should be "jerry-rigged" and the term originated in Jolly Ol' England whenever
V-2's were dropping from the skies like bird shit.  The English called the Nazi's
"Jerry's".  So, if something were bombed and had to be brought back into
service using whatever was at hand, it was Jerry-rigged.

George