> Well, in MY mind, "jury rigged" is too close to the racially insulting
> terms.  I'm not offended when someone uses the "jury rigged" form
> though.

But that's in your head Dave. It's like saying that you shouldn't use
the word "whittler" around people who lived in Poland in WW2

It's exactly the kind of misplaced emotionalism and misinterpretation
that started all this PC crap (no offense intended ;-))) )

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jur1.htm

"These three terms have got thoroughly mixed up in people's minds,
to the extent that we may never be able to disentangle them again"

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