mel jacobson on wed 15 aug 07
sorry, nordic people say:
jerryriggin.
i have no idea what a jury rigging is.
is that like tampering with a jury? boy, that is bad...like hoffa or
something.
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Lee Love on wed 15 aug 07
From here:
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.
Originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a
replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the
original mast.
Etymology
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.[2][3]
There are several theories about the origin of this usage of "jury":
* From the Latin adjutare ("to aid") via Old French ajurie ("help
or relief").[4]
* "Jury-mast" derived from "injury-mast", though The Oxford
English Dictionary indicates no evidence has been found to support
this theory.[1]
* From the French du jour ("of the day"), and thus
temporary[citation needed]
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Jeanette Harris on wed 15 aug 07
Wikipedia says:
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.[2][3]
There are several theories about the origin of this usage of "jury":
? From the Latin adjutare ("to aid") via Old French
ajurie ("help or relief").[4]
? "Jury-mast" derived from "injury-mast", though The
Oxford English Dictionary indicates no evidence has been found to
support this theory.[1]
? From the French du jour ("of the day"), and thus
temporary[citation needed]
[edit]Rigging
While ships typically carried a number of spare parts such as
topmasts, the lower masts, at up to one meter in diameter, were too
large to carry spares. So a jury mast could be various things. Ships
always carried a variety of spare sails, so rigging the jury mast
once erected was mostly a matter of selecting appropriate size.
Contemporary drawings and paintings show a wide variety of jury rigs,
attesting to the creativity of sailors faced with the need to save
their ships. Example jury-rig configurations are:
? A spare topmast
? The main boom of a brig
? To replace the foremast with the mizzenmast:
mentioned in W. Brady's The Kedge Anchor (1852)
? The bowsprit set upright and tied to the stump of the
original mast.
The Jury mast knot is often mentioned as a method to provide the
anchor points for securing makeshift stays and shrouds to the new
mast. However, there is a lack of hard evidence regarding the knot's
actual historical use.[5]
Although ships were observed to perform reasonably well under jury
rig, the rig was quite a bit weaker than the original, and the ship's
first priority was normally to steer for the nearest friendly port
and get replacement masts.
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Poulsbo WA
John Rodgers on wed 15 aug 07
Just to clear the air a bit - or cloud it as the case may be --
"jury-rigged," a nautical term for a makeshift replacement of rig that
has been damaged or lost overboard, and "Gerry-built," which referred to
the low quality of German manufactures in the latter part of the 19th
century.
There is a raft of other, racially offensive and denigrating expressions
(depends on what part of the country you are in as to which applies)
which all wind up in the same place as above - a half-built, makeshift,
get-by until-I-can-fix-it-later, I-don't-have-enough-money-to-do-it
-right-just -now - sort of fix until something better can be accomplished.
One of the best examples of jury-rigging was a bit facetious, but funny
- Re: the movie The Pink Submarine with Cary Grant where-in a ladies
girdle was mounted to drive a critical pump, thereby saving the day and
the sub.
There are perhaps as many jury-rigging epidsodes as there are people,
and some are indeed, wondrous to behold, whiel others stagger the
imagination - and show astonishing imaginuity.
Regards,
John Rodgers
Chelsea, AL
mel jacobson wrote:
> sorry, nordic people say:
> jerryriggin.
> i have no idea what a jury rigging is.
> is that like tampering with a jury? boy, that is bad...like hoffa or
> something.
>
> from: mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
> website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
>
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Kathy Forer on thu 16 aug 07
On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:11 PM, John Rodgers wrote:
> There is a raft of other, racially offensive and denigrating
> expressions
> (depends on what part of the country you are in as to which applies)
> which all wind up in the same place as above - a half-built,
> makeshift,
> get-by until-I-can-fix-it-later, I-don't-have-enough-money-to-do-it
> -right-just -now - sort of fix until something better can be
> accomplished.
Ze French have a lovely term for it, "Bricolage." A bricoleur is
"someone who invents his or her own strategies for using existing
materials in a creative, resourceful, and original way."
Originally a plumbing term that evokes using rubber bands and chewing
gum to fix a leaking pipe, it's implicated in various theories.
Claude Levi-Strauss employs it In "A Savage Mind" to describe
"characteristic patterns of mythological thought."
There is also a book on language by Derrida using bricolage as
critique of language or even language itself ("After forty, it's
patch, patch patch") as well as other cultural, scientific, game
theory, IT and organizational uses of the term.
Wikipedia touches on "Bricolage as a design approach -- in the sense
of building by trial and error -- is often contrasted to engineering:
theory-based construction."
Kathy Forer
Locust, NJ
Vince Pitelka on sat 18 aug 07
Mel wrote:
> sorry, nordic people say: jerryriggin.
> i have no idea what a jury rigging is.
> is that like tampering with a jury?
You're right, Mel. "jury-rigging" in place of "jerry-rigging" is one of
those awkward bastardizations of a common phrase. "Jury-rigging" is in fact
what the Mafia does. "Jerry-rigging" is a back-yard, hare-brained solution
to some technical or mechanical problem, usually ill-fated. "Jerry-rigging"
is a sure-fire invation to the intervention of Murphy's law.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
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http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
KATHI LESUEUR on sun 19 aug 07
On Aug 18, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Vince Pitelka wrote:
> Mel wrote:
>> sorry, nordic people say: jerryriggin.
>> i have no idea what a jury rigging is.
>> is that like tampering with a jury?
>
Yes. Especially in the art fair world where an artist sends in
application and it is never juried because someone has heard a rumor
about that artist and decides they shouldn't be in the fair or has
had a disagreement with someone connected with the fair. Of course,
their jury fee is cashed. That's why some fairs now call it an
application fee. They don't want to be sued for cashing that check
and then not jurying the artist.
Kathi
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