Jim Weir: help to add car radio to aviation audio panel music input

In article ofC9e.56373$lz2.17509@fed1read07,
Carl / KG6YKL wrote:
RST Engineering wrote:

jury-rig solution

Okay, this is way off topic but I have to know the history of this
expression. It is my understanding that the correct term is
"Jerry-rigged" or "Jerryrigged" which is based on the pejorative term
"Jerry" for Japanese, used during WWII. The way it was told to me is
that near the end of WWII Jerry (the Japanese) were badly beaten and
much of their equipment was non-operational. However the Japanese
were very resourceful at doing whatever it took to get things working.
So people started talking about "Jerry-rigging" things.

All well and good, except for one fact. "Jerry" referred to the _Germans_,
not the Japanese.

Oh, yeah, a second "inconvenient" fact -- the term _was_ in use *before*
WWII.

Obviously the term "Jerry" is racially insensitive which probably led
to the alteration of the term.

Obviously "nonsense". grin

However, isn't "Jerryrigged" a
complimentary term when you consider it implies resourcefulness?

It's usually used in a mildly disparaging way -- implying an "ad hoc"
solution of a _temporary_ nature, and, thus, a lack of durability,
Something where it will be necessary to "come back later, and do it right".

In an _emergency_ situation, such methodologies are justified.
In a non-emergency, it's because somebody wasn't willing to expend
the effort to 'do it right' the _first_ time; with the expectation that
"somebody else" will be responsible for 'making it right' later.

Thus, the pejorative meaning -- because it is _usually_ applied to
"non-emergency" constructs.