i found out during christmas that the actual real term that comes from is "jury rigging"...i was very glad to find this out as i dont like saying the n word version...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rig

Quote :

"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."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rig#Similar_phrases

Quote :

" * The phrase "jerry-built" has a separate origin and implies shoddy workmanship not necessarily of a temporary nature.[6][7] * The term "jerry-rigged" is a relatively recent mingling (or perhaps garbling) of "jury rig" with "jerry-built".[8] * Several slang terms combine a noun or adjective with the suffix "-rig" to denote an improvised or poor quality repair, often used pejoratively: * nigger-rig - Based on the racial slur "nigger", this is likely to be interpreted as offensive and vulgar. Attested since the mid-1960s, especially in the Southern United States.[9] * Jimmy-rig[citation needed] * Jerry-rig, likely derived from mistaken pronounciation of Jury Rig. * ghetto-rig[citation needed] * redneck-renovation "

i also heard some people refer to n word rigging as "afro engineering" which made me lol...afro engineering is way better than n word rigging

12/26/2007 12:43:32 PM

what's the n word?


what's the internet

12/26/2007 12:45:01 PM

Quote :

"N WORD RIGGING"

12/26/2007 12:47:26 PM

A history professor once told me that in medival times in England, a couple had to get the kings premission to have a child. So during the time the woman was pregnant, they would hang a sign over their door that said "Fornacation Under Consent of King"...which came to be known as Fucking.

12/26/2007 12:47:46 PM

"That the word fuck came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "FUCKIN" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime."

12/26/2007 12:51:21 PM

oh great...ncsuapex's post made me wonder if the post above him was truthful...i believed it at first but then ncsuapex comes along and blows my mind

12/26/2007 12:53:29 PM

BY THE WAY... to properly n word rig/afro engineer/jury rig, you HAVE to have duct tape...man law

12/26/2007 12:54:58 PM

^even if you're trying to repair duct work.

12/26/2007 12:56:47 PM

afro engineering ftw

12/26/2007 1:17:18 PM

[Edited on December 26, 2007 at 1:36 PM. Reason : http://www.grumpstump.com/squidoo/duct_tape.jpg]

12/26/2007 1:35:40 PM

lolololololololol

[Edited on December 26, 2007 at 1:49 PM. Reason : i've done so much damn jury rigging in the past 10 days]

12/26/2007 1:49:12 PM

Quote :

"That the word fuck came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "FUCKIN" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime."

doubt it

which irish law would that be?

<- irish


[Edited on December 26, 2007 at 2:21 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2007 2:19:07 PM

^ oh well you must be the EXPERT on ALL things Irish

12/26/2007 2:21:04 PM

more of an expert than you anyway

irish law is almost completely derived from english common law because ireland was ruled by england for almost 800 years until the early 20th century

also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck#Etymology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck#False_etymologies

12/26/2007 2:22:20 PM

wow.. citing wiki as a reliable source... It HAS to be correct!!!111

12/26/2007 2:23:24 PM

yo tripled could probably answer the irish question

12/26/2007 2:28:46 PM

I nigger rigged my laptop today

bitch wouldn't turn on so I put some duct tape over the fans and cut slits like gills so it could breathe better

then I held the power button for like 40 seconds and it finally worked

12/26/2007 2:40:46 PM

the actual origin of 'fuck' is even better.


Etymology
Middle English, attested in pseudo-Latin fuccant, (they) fuck, deciphered from gxddbov.

Type more to see the rest of the definition for "fuck."


The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys," from the first words of its opening line, "Flen, flyys, and freris," that is, "fleas, flies, and friars." The line that contains fuck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." The Latin words "Non sunt in coeli, quia," mean "they [the friars] are not in heaven, since." The code "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now.

i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields "fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli." The whole thus reads in translation: "They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge]."

[Edited on December 26, 2007 at 3:27 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2007 3:26:44 PM

i thought the term was "Jerry Rigging", haha thats how ive said it for years during PC-situations


is there Jury-Knocking?

12/26/2007 3:29:12 PM

tom and jury seinfeld

12/26/2007 3:30:30 PM

some jerry stole my bike

12/26/2007 3:35:16 PM

afro engineering

A mild-mannered way of saying "ni**er rig." Used mainly when describing an action in which a person has used strange or unusual means to carelessly fix something.

12/26/2007 3:37:06 PM

ill stick to nigger-rig

12/26/2007 3:38:41 PM

how bout when theres no tp or tissues so you use the shower as a bedet

what would that fall under

12/26/2007 3:39:09 PM

:carlface:

12/26/2007 3:42:06 PM

^^ hahaha that some shit

12/26/2007 3:45:35 PM