origins of "kludge"

[Chad Fernandez]

Pete Turnbull wrote:
> "Bodge" doesn't mean the same thing at all.  You're probably thinking
> of "botch", which means (v) to screw something up, or (n) something
> which is screwed up.  "Kludge" means to make something work, but in an
> inelegant or clumsy fashion.  "Bodge", however, means to adjust or
> adapt something carefully to fit, perhaps in a way not originally
> intended; "bodgers" were originally people who did the final fitting of
> parts to machines and the like.

 From watching JunkYard Wars, or Scrap Heap Challenge as it is called in 
the UK, I thought Bodge was about the same as kludge, too.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA