Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 04, 2010

Whoa, next you’ll be telling me those wrestling matches are staged!

The NASCAR guy can jury rig it.

rayannina said “Whoa, next you’ll be telling me those wrestling matches are staged!”

You are right. I’ll be telling you they are choreographed.

‘jury rig’ is the correct nautical term for a running repair on a vessel. Different derivation to ‘jerry build’.

Not to be confused with the legal term ;-)

Wrestling is real!

Dern right the wrasslin’s real! It’s the crowds that are phonies.

A mean old wrestler growled at me when I was 7. Hid behind my father, I think he believed it was real that moment.

dick the bruiser, wilbur snider, mitsu arakara, cowboy bob ellis, baron von rashke, the sheik, jolting joe blanchard, the shire brothers, the medics, yukon eric, haystacks calhoun…et all……yes to a twelve year old, it was very real

a tribute to great entertainers from years gone by

Umm, there is something to be said about “street smarts” here. Or unique specialization.

Perhaps one day my comics knowledge will help me out of a jam.

Reality… what a concept!

I believe “jerry-built” comes from WWII, during which the Germans were referred to as “Jerry”, and it was pretty common knowledge that the Germans were running low on just about everything by ‘43 or so… thus jerry-built refers to something improvised from materiel at hand.

Professor Tanaka and Bulldog Brower (the one-man riot squad) were my favorites.

I had the impression that the Germans were called Jerries in the First World War? Not that I was around to check.

Well, I googled it, and I am wrong. It definitely says WW II. The only reference to WW I comes with a book written by a man named Gerry somebody. ;-)

gerrymandering refers to redrawing political ward boundaries so that you can maximize the effectiveness of the vote for your party. Lump as many of your opponent’s voters together into a single ward as you can, and spread your’s so they form a majority in any ward they are in then you win more wards during the election.

It got so blatant that in one election a ward was re-drawn to resemble a Salamander so the press hung Gerrymander on it. I think the official who re-drew the wards was named Gerry but not sure of that.

“Gerrymander” was coined because of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. In 1812, he redistricted parts of the state to give more votes to his political allies. The artist thought one of the new districts looked like a salamander and the editor came up with the term “gerrymander” as a play on Gerry’s name.

I thought it was a from WW2 germans “jerrys” slapping stuff together because of the lack of supplies.

A pro wrestler doesn’t have super human powers?!?!?!?!?

Rina, google let you down.

According to War Slang by Paul Dickson (a handy little volume to have when you read old war stories), you were right the first time, it is a WWI term. Also, you can try typing “jerry” into dictionary.com and scroll down to the word origins at the bottom it will tell you:

Jerry

World War I British Army slang for “German,” 1919, probably an alteration of ‘German, but also said to be from the shape of the Ger. helmet, which was like a jerry, British slang for “chamber pot” (1827), probably an abbreviation of jeroboam. Hence jerry-can “5-gallon metal container” (1943), a type first used by German troops in World War II, later adopted by the Allies.

Funny!

@fbjsr hehehe

<<>davidarquette>

WRESTLING IS NOT FAKE!!!!

<<>/davidarquette>

@ fbjsr

OK, that was definitely the best comment of the morning… Five gold stars for that one…

BTW, rebar doesn’t snap, it bends. Designed that way so reinforced concrete would break.

Wow, pro wrestling matches are fake? Next you’ll be telliing me that NASCAR races are rigged to favor certain drivers. Wait, what?

NASCAR traces it’s lineage back to bootleggers with fast cars to evade arrest and confiscation. But what do they know?

Jury Rig is STILL the correct turn and it’s older than anything else anyone else has stated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rig Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand. The phrase “jury rigged” has been in use since at least 1788.[1] However, the adjectival use of “jury” in the sense of makeshift or temporary dates from at least 1616, when it appeared in John Smith’s A Description of New England.[1] It appeared again, in a similar passage, in Smith’s more extensive The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles published in 1624.

Jury Rig is STILL the correct turn and it’s older than anything else anyone else has stated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rig Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand.

The phrase “jury rigged” has been in use since at least 1788.[1] However, the adjectival use of “jury” in the sense of makeshift or temporary dates from at least 1616, when it appeared in John Smith’s A Description of New England.[1] It appeared again, in a similar passage, in Smith’s more extensive The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles published in 1624.

Just to add to this, the connotation of jury rig is not bad, just temporary. The connotation of jerry rig is shoddy workmanship.

I did a google search and according to the Urban Dictionary “Jury Rigging” is very similar to “Afro Engineering”.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=afro%20engineering

@FriscoLou; which gets us in the slippery territory of the “N-Bomb”, where I don’t intend to go.

Jury-rig (according to dictionary.reference.com probably nautical, from French, ajurie - help) especially broken masts (too big and heavy to carry spares) and rigging (sails and lines, of which spares make sense).

Easily confused with jerry-built, as above, where advancing Allies in WWII found the abandoned gas cans and used the metal for various quick-and-dirty repairs.

You are correct defunctdoormat!

From this day on, I will always rely on you for the correct definitions. Thank you. You are obviously a scholar.

Did fbjsr’s comment disappear?

I missed it and several here said it was funny. Why flag it?

gerrymander=clyburns district in South Carolina

I believe the current PC term is “McIver.” That preserves the “creative spur of the moment solution” aspect without casting asparagus on any ethnic group or geographic region.

The other day, a lady friend of mine, in reference to modifying her home environment to better suit her lifestyle, used the term “toolbelt diva” as a verb, as in “I’m going to toolbelt diva something to fix that.”

Just a note: if the gearbox is damaged, they are going to need to sling the bird out of there. No sane pilot is going to fly a bird with damage to the transmission gearbox unless death is the only other alternative, because it will probably kill you.

You know I was thinking the same thing Big Pink Mom. I believe Jtpozenel got a wiff too.