Well I am sure you will all be glad to know that on Junkyard Wars, BODGING has been restored once again as a term of high honor. It can now apply to planning and executing any creative, unorthodox design menat to get a job done, especially if it involves welding together things that must be safe and strong but not necessarily lovely in every detail. Machines of all sorts one can hardly imagine are happily and lustily bodged up by proud, self-proclaimed bodgers industriously bodging away on various ingenious solutions to challenges, on a weekly basis. Copious amounts of tea seem to be required, hoisted in large, stainless steel cups the size of paint cans.

I think the US counterpart for the way the word is used on that show would be jury-rigged or jerry-built, neither of which I can quite account for as to origin or precise original meaning.

~S~