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 |
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