origins of "kludge"

[Tony Duell]

> In Queensland it's pronounced to rhyme with judge,

I've also picked up the 'klduge' spelling and pronounciation. When I've 
got some piece of hardware going by dead-bugging in a totally different 
chip, of when I've manange to get 2 machines talking to each other by 
cutting an RS232 cable in half and joining the wires with a chocolate 
block [1], I've been known to paraody a line of Gilbert and Sulivan

'For I have a kludge, and a good kludge too' :-)

[1] One of those plastic screw terminal blocks. Don't laugh, I actually 
did this once when I had to get two machines communicating and all I had 
was a pair of pliers and a small screwdriver...

-tony