southern engineer

to fix something by cobbeling together. not only is duct tape a mainstay in the southern engineers tool box, but so is bailing wire. typical uses for the bailing wire are any applications where welding would normally be used.
jethro: “hey jim-bob, my m-ffler is draggin and causing all sorts of racket”.
jim-bob: “git you some of dat bailin wiar and tie er up”.
jethro: “good idea jim-bob, where is it at?”
jim-bob: “over yonder, in ma tool box, under the duct tape”.
jethro: “thank god you went to the po-dunk a & m community college in stump jumperville and got your ged on that southern engineer course”!
this means to fix something, usually without the proper tools or parts. often duct tape is used in m-ssive amounts. -n-lagous to the phrase n-gg-r rig.
the furnace in my house is southern engineered.
surprisingly brilliant (the accent is deceptive), can make rockets out of anything, uses cotton fields as launch pads, uses y’all and centripetal force in the same sentence

nasa
he made a rocket out of moonshine; he must be a southern engineer.