On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:20:36 -0400, John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom>
>> I think that your teacher may have been confusing jerry-rigged with
jerry-built
>> which is a slur against a certain English Jerry. Jerry-rigged is from WW2 and
>> applied to Allied equipment repaired using German parts.
>> To be honest, I have heard one phrase used by American oilmen that was a racial

>
>I have heard some people use the term "Afro-engineering," an attempt, 
>evidently, at making a politically-correct racial slur.
>

No doubt we will be using that term soon instead of bodged job :(
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Regards
     Stephen

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