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# Like that scary man who posts every week on the Guardian blog to protest that it should be boxED set
I'm going to point out it should be bodgeD jobs
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:10, archived)
# botched jobs
ashually.
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:14, archived)
# and bodging is something else entirely
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging

Huh, learn something new every day
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:18, archived)
# I expected some unusual sex act
probably involving a rubber glove on the end of a yard brush
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:21, archived)
# I like the sound of this.
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:25, archived)
# *registers bodginginprivate.com
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:35, archived)
# Botch jobs or bodged jobs.
IMHO.

Botch job - one which has gone wrong
Bodged job - one where a solution has been improvised from highly rudimentary materials, usually to a successful outcome.
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:17, archived)
# The "Slang" section of the article emvee has linked to
suggests you are spot on!

edit/which all leads to the question, what are we voting for?
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:21, archived)
# I'm in agreement with all of this
[edit] looks like bodging is winning
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:24, archived)
# Bodge
the longer write up has something about fixing a CPU with a pin or something
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:24, archived)
# Excellent, glad we got to the bottom of it.
*votes pregnolols*
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:26, archived)
# I think it's more like a name for something
like a 'cover-up'. You wouldn't say a 'covered-up'.
(, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 10:22, archived)