[conspire] Numbers racket
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Apr 28 00:58:24 PDT 2020
Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> I have never looked this word up and I only know it from my ear, and
> from the context. I always thought it was like fudging something,
> which co-locally means like your making fudge, without a recipe. :)
> The accountant fudged the numbers and made the business seem
> profitable even when it was actually losing money.
Honestly, the term fudge-able is a perfectly good term for this. I
think you should take credit for coining it. ;->
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