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Jerry-built things, which are things 'built unsubstantially of bad materials', has a separate unknown etymology. It is probably linked to earlier pejorative uses of the word jerry, attested as early as 1721, and may have been influenced by jury-rigged. [6] [7] [8] The blended terms jerry rigging and jerry-rigged are also common. [9] [10]
"Jerry-built" is a separate expression whose history predates the use of the term Jerry for Germans, as the article cited in the reference points out. The use of "jerry-rigged" (including at least twice in the last few months by the otherwise well-edited New Yorker magazine) clearly stems from confusion between the two terms.
They’d book a room at a Red Roof Inn in South Deerfield, and in the mornings, they’d go to work: Jerry to Jerry’s Place; Marge to Billy’s. They started at 5:30 a.m., before the stores opened to the public, and went straight through to 6 p.m., printing as many tickets as the terminals would handle, rubber-banding them in stacks of $5,000 ...
In the late 1980s, with an Erector Set, various old toys, and bits of jewelry, Jack Kevorkian jerry-rigged a machine he called the Thanatron (later renamed to the Mercitron). Three bottles were suspended from a rickety beam, one filled with a saline solution to open a patient's veins, another with barbiturates for sedation, and a third with ...
Soon after, he was delighted to discover he was the sole winner of the $44.3 million top prize. The winning numbers were 1, 2, 15, 23, 28, and the red Powerball 10 — Heath’s lucky number.
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McMillions (stylized as McMillion$) is a documentary miniseries about the McDonald's Monopoly promotion scam that occurred between 1989 and 2001. Directed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, the series details how the scam was perpetrated by Jerry Jacobson, [1] the head of security for the agency that ran the promotion, and how he recruited a wide range of accomplices.
One mishap that almost ended the scheme early involved a failed attempt from Joe Green to recruit Brown University player Jerry Alaimo before the 1957–58 season began; not only did Green fail to recruit Alaimo, but Alaimo would anonymously call the office of Manhattan's District Attorney Frank Hogan (the same man that stopped the CCNY point ...