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Gerry said:

RIAA is a bodge to correct another bodge.

What the hell is "bodge"????

It's obviously some bit of Brit slang. I've never heard it before but
the meaning is plain.
My suggestion is to find a 12-year-old child who earns a B average in
school and ask the child to clue you in.

It was not 'obvious' at all.

Yes it was.

I seriously doubt that any 12-year-old
American child has ever heard or used that word before.

Not the point.

What I'm
gathering from others' interpretations is that it would seem to mean
"cobble together",

Sort of, but not precisely. Is English not your first language?

but the meaning was not at all clear in the original post.

Was too. Blazingly obvious.




--

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Gerry wrote:

On May 14, 7:08 am, George M. Middius cmndr _ george @ comcast .
net wrote:
Gerry said:

RIAA is a bodge to correct another bodge.
What the hell is "bodge"????

It's obviously some bit of Brit slang. I've never heard it before but
the meaning is plain.

My suggestion is to find a 12-year-old child who earns a B average in
school and ask the child to clue you in.


It was not 'obvious' at all. I seriously doubt that any 12-year-old
American child has ever heard or used that word before. What I'm
gathering from others' interpretations is that it would seem to mean
"cobble together", but the meaning was not at all clear in the
original post.

From wikipedia


Bodge is British slang for a clumsy, messy, inelegant or inadequate solution
to a problem. (See also Kludge.)

IAn

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RIAA is evil.... :-)


What the hell is "bodge"????


It's obviously some bit of Brit slang. I've never heard it before but
the meaning is plain.

My suggestion is to find a 12-year-old child who earns a B average in
school and ask the child to clue you in.

Sounds like our word "Kludge". To throw something together to do
something, even though it won't be elegant or efficient from a systems
level point of view.

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"George M. Middius" wrote:

Don Pearce said:

Where bodge would be a makeshift attempt at repair, kludge has more
the flavour of the way the thing is actually made, but looks like a
bodge.

Have you Brits adopted "Krooge" yet? ;-)

You've lost your edge you know.

Graham

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robert casey wrote:

And how many pints in a gallon, this gets to be a PITA.

How many fl oz in a pint ? It's different if it's a US or Imperial pint.

Then again.....

A pint of beer in Australia or New Zealand is 570 mL, except in South Australia
where a pint is 425 mL and 570 mL is called an imperial pint.

A 375 mL bottle of liquor in the US and the Canadian maritime provinces is
referred to as a “pint”, hearkening back to the days when liquor came in actual
US pints, quarts, and half-gallons.

United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Nations (Imperial)
1 pint = 20 fluid ounces = 568.26125 mL ? 568 mL

United States
1 pint (wet) = 16 fluid ounces = 2 cups ? 473 mL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint

I should point out that litres should actually be written as a lower case l
(letter L) in fact.


Graham

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Eeyore wrote:


robert casey wrote:


And how many pints in a gallon, this gets to be a PITA.


How many fl oz in a pint ? It's different if it's a US or Imperial pint.

Then again.....

A pint of beer in Australia or New Zealand is 570 mL, except in South Australia
where a pint is 425 mL and 570 mL is called an imperial pint.

A 375 mL bottle of liquor in the US and the Canadian maritime provinces is
referred to as a “pint”, hearkening back to the days when liquor came in actual
US pints, quarts, and half-gallons.

United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Nations (Imperial)
1 pint = 20 fluid ounces = 568.26125 mL ? 568 mL

United States
1 pint (wet) = 16 fluid ounces = 2 cups ? 473 mL


Just imagine if electricity and electronics happened before the metric
system was invented. There'd be some screwball Imperial or english term
and differing measurement for voltage or current, watts and so on.
"There's 12 whatevers in a baappap, and one baappap = 2.67 volts, but
current comes in pytts, and 4 of those in a flupp, and a flupp = 7.3065
amps. ...... :-(

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flipper wrote:

Hehe.

Well, in order to have 'units' you have to be able to 'measure', by
some 'standard', and there are reasons why those archaic units came
into being. (hand, thumb, foot, etc.)

There's also nothing particularly 'special' about metric. It's using
powers that makes it mathematically convenient but the powers could
just as easily be powers of 2, 5, 16, or whatever. But we've got 10
fingers so I imagine even metric comes from an archaic measuring tool.

Btw, 12 was so popular because it's evenly divisible by 2, 3 and 4,
which makes it mathematically 'convenient' for the mathematically
challenged (if you've got 3 people it's a heck of a lot easier to
divide up a dozen eggs than 10). Next 'convenient' number is 60 as
it's evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, *and* 5. Hmm, now where have I seen
that one before?

One little nugget I like is the use of the spaces between the fingers to
count. That gives you a base eight system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_tribe

--
Nick

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On May 14, 4:42 pm, George M. Middius cmndr _ george @ comcast .
net wrote:
Gerry said:

RIAA is a bodge to correct another bodge.
What the hell is "bodge"????
It's obviously some bit of Brit slang. I've never heard it before but
the meaning is plain.
My suggestion is to find a 12-year-old child who earns a B average in
school and ask the child to clue you in.
It was not 'obvious' at all.

Yes it was.

No - it was not. It's an archaic word not used on a regular basis in
America. Webster's 1956 Dictionary describes bodge as an obsolete
version of the word botch.


I seriously doubt that any 12-year-old
American child has ever heard or used that word before.

Not the point.

YOU brought it up...


What I'm
gathering from others' interpretations is that it would seem to mean
"cobble together",

Sort of, but not precisely. Is English not your first language?

American English is.


but the meaning was not at all clear in the original post.

Was too. Blazingly obvious.

The whole initial post is rather muddled and unclear because of such
uncommon verbiage as bodge.

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On May 14, 9:34 pm, Eeyore
wrote:

You've lost your edge you know.

Never had one. Sometimes "bitter" may be ineptly described as "sharp",
but the commander is a one-note instrument badly played by Mr. McCoy.
There is nothing there of independent mien.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

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"Eeyore" wrote in
message
"George M. Middius" wrote:

Don Pearce said:

Where bodge would be a makeshift attempt at repair,
kludge has more the flavour of the way the thing is
actually made, but looks like a bodge.

Have you Brits adopted "Krooge" yet? ;-)

You've lost your edge you know.

The Middiot never had an edge. The Middiot started out here ranting and
raving about coneheads, and went downhill rapidly from there. Now, he can
take credit for completely destroying a once-vibrant Usenet audio group with
his endless spew of cryptic mutterings.