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> In a message dated 11/7/00 8:17:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> >English is not my native language, so I'm not sure what are "zip-ties"
> >and "jury-rig", but I have some ideas... Guess I'll find these in hardware
> >store or the local Radio Shack?
>
> "Jury-rig" means a temporary assembly or one not engineered to a high level,
> though likely to work. A practical application is the wire coathanger used
> to hold one's exhaust pipe up when it begins to drag while on the way to
> work. Not a "correct" application, but (now switching to "Southern")
> "shoot-fire, boys, dun got 10,000 miles on the pickup with'n coathanger
> holden' up da pipe!" (i.e., it works)
>
> As for the "zip-ties," these are the plastic zip straps used to hold wires,
> etc. One end goes thru a clip in the other end and, "zip!" you can tighten
> the strap around wires, hard drives, etc.
>
>
Andrew,
Thanks for the precisions. I realize I didn't get the "jury-rig" thing,
but now I do. The zip-ties were what I thought they were.
Yep, slang is fun!
-Laurent.
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