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** French call that ''système D''. A convenient way to do things without any annoying organisation.
* In a similar vein, the Egyptians have a [[National Stereotypes|stereotype]] about themselves that they can always find a way to make what they need. As it turns out, this might be true of Arabs in general, judging by the jury-rigged weapons systems of Hamas and Hezbollah in the [[Useful Notes/Arab-Israeli Conflict|Arab Israeli Conflict]], and of the Libyan rebels in [[Middle East Uprising 2011|their Civil War]].
* The Israelis during the time of the British Mandate were themselves pretty good at that sort of thing.
* Cracked did an article on the subject, [http://www.cracked.com/article_16151_5-most-amazing-real-life-macgyver-moments.html here.]
* The website [http://www.thereifixedit.com There, I Fixed It] archives photos of some of the more amusing attempts at this. Some of them apparently do the job; they just ''look'' humorously thrown-together.
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* Averted probably more times than not in Real Life. Many an ER attending and trauma surgeon has put away some retirement money from homemade [[MacGyver]] devices. The tragedy is that most lay people can scrounge together just enough information, skill, and resources to build something that gets themselves really, really hurt. What professionals have is not only the ability to build devices, but do so safely with a low margin of error. As Adam and Jamie would say, don't try this at home. They're what you call professionals.
* Medieval siege work was often a contest in MacGyvering. Invaders blow a breach in your wall? No problem, get some spare cobblestones, hire some beggars to plug up the breach with a mound and while you are waiting have [[Redshirt Army|some unfortunate redshirts]] stand in the breach and keep the bad guys away.
* Draper Kaufman, EOD expert and founder of the Underwater Demolition Teams(World War 2 Seals)was in many ways a real MacGyver. He was also a subversion as he whenever he could used well prepared equipment. The way he used it was often ingenious but he didn't just make bombs out of toothpaste or whatever.
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