What have you jury-rigged for your beadwork?

It might not have a very good origin, but in the manner it's used today, it's an extremely useful phrase. Perhaps it's the linguist in me, but reducing the concept of "to create something functional from parts, the result of which has nothing to do with the original intended design of those parts" down to three syllables is interesting.

Lindsey

Wow, I never knew that!

-Kalera

Yep, I've heard that one. It usually means doing something half-assed, though, from the old Mickey Mouse cartoons where he was always doing things in a way that required the least possible labor.

-Kalera

My circle of friends says "Bubble gum and duct tape".

-Kalera

I think half of everything in my life is jury-rigged. :) I am the chick formerly referred to at work as "The Fix-It Bitch" because I could fix anything with a gum wrapper and a pocketknife. Also occasionally called "MacGuyver" for the same reason.

-Kalera

And then if you want to be completely NON PC there's a phrase that has been cleaned up to "afro-engineered"

Why do you all take so much offense at words? It's when you LET them bother you that they bother you. Thick skin is a GOOD thing!!!

Shaking my (young to most of you) head and wondering when things swung so far the other way.

Later,

Helen C

Yes, still here and still waiting for #6.

My improv would have to be my beading light on my rigged up desk (you'd have to see pics to understand) It was DH's corner computer desk until we moved and he didn't tie it on the car tight enough. It's good from the table top up but underneath is improv-ed. Wine/juice bottles on each side, a broom handle held by strips of folded paper, a cheap clamp-on shop light over the middle of the desk and a 100 watt reveal light bulb.

lololololololol....I wa ssitting here, thinking about how I need to figure out if my television is fixable (the On/Off button pooped into the whole thing, no more button at all) and I read that, Kalera....so come on over...work that gum wrapper magic on my tv, please ;)

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kalera Stratton :

]My circle of friends says "Bubble gum and duct tape".

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

It's WD40 and Duck Tape here -

If it doesn't move but it's meant to - WD40 it If it moves and it's not meant to - Duck Tape it!

Charlie.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Charlie" :

]If it doesn't move but it's meant to - WD40 it ]If it moves and it's not meant to - Duck Tape it!

same here.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

That's the name I've been thinking of this whole thread. ~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

It seems that so many people are getting so PC these days that one can barely speak for fear of offending someone else. And there are so many "facts" floating about that are anything but. But they get quoted so much that people accept them as truth without question. Question authority! and everything else too......... I've seen the phrase "jury-rigged" in books from the late 1800's. Barbara Dream Master

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. Woody Allen

And in ours it's "bubble gum and baling wire". Barbara Dream Master

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. Woody Allen

I think I've mentioned this one before, but if I didn't......I use a piece of large wooden dowel or 1" x 1" wood and screw lots of cup hooks into it. Then I hang it near my work area. I suspend coils of wire, etc from each of the hooks. It makes each individual thing accessible by itself. Barbara Dream Master

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. Woody Allen

LOL! Where's my Swiss Army knife? And a plane ticket? I'll be right there...

-Kalera

hehehe..we have the knife..and to get the ticket, ya just go to dubbadubba dot plane ticket dot com...when they ask for a credit card number...no worries, just a formality *grin* ~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Barbara Otterson :

] It seems that so many people are getting so PC these ]days that one can barely speak for fear of offending ]someone else. And there are so many "facts" floating ]about that are anything but. But they get quoted so much ]that people accept them as truth without question. ] Question authority! and everything else too......... ]I've seen the phrase "jury-rigged" in books from the ]late 1800's.

SECONDED!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

Too be quite honest..words are just words to me..used in a time and a place to get a particular meaning across. I have no problem with any word I've ever come across, and can always find another to use if the one I have isn't working the way I intended. I do no deliberately try to offend anyone, and will choose different words when possible to avoid that very thing. But, like I said, words are just words. It's how one chooses to view them that matters.

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)