User:Macncarole/Mackered

The term MACKERED was coined by Walter Heathcock in 1969 whilst viewing the trail of destruction caused by his well meaning, but very clumsy future son in law, Mack. Mack was always keen to help and impress, he was academically quite bright, but Mack was completely devoid of fine motor control skills and didn't realise the extent of his physical strength. For instance: when doing the simple task of changing a washer on a kitchen tap, Mack using a pipe wrench on the tap pulled the entire tap assembly and piping through the kitchen tiles and from the entire wall, thus creating work for carpenters, plumbers, plasterers, tilers and painters. The term MACKERED quickly spread throughout Victoria, Australia to mean any object that a well meaning person has broken. It is a derivative of the cruder term knackered which can also mean tired or broken.