[TMC] FS: Refurbished GPR-90

[John Poulton]

I learned this term by watching (many!) episodes of "Junkyard Wars",
a wonderful British TV series in which teams compete to build completely
mad contraptions from stuff found in a scrap yard.  The term "bodge",
as defined below, came up frequently, for some reason.. :)  

Also had the rare privelege of working on a major home construction
project with my cousin-in-law from Yorkshire.  I rapidly learned to
call framing lumber "4 by 2's" (everything British is upside down,
reversed left/right, or backwards--check out the switches on your
Murphy B-40 or Eddystone 888, for example) and my trusty drill press became
a "pillar drill".  We ended up doing a "proper job" that week, even 
though we're a couple of "plonkers"!

73, John

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, John Mackesy wrote:

> 'Bodged','bodgie' are quite widely used here in Australia. I looked it 
> up in my Maquarie (Australian) dictionary:
> 
> [Obs, Brit. bodge, to patch or mend clumsily]
> 
> MIL gear seems to attract bodgers...
> 
> John Mackesy VK3XAO
> 
> 
> WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> 
>  > I think it's probably Canodian, eh.  :-)
>  >
>  > In a message dated 11/9/2005 8:49:55 PM Central Standard Time, 
> w9ran at oneradio.net writes:
>  >
>  >>> "bodged"
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Definitely a word that ought have a more prominent place in the 
> boatanchorist vocabulary!
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