It was a sloppy user interface slapped on machines assembled by a hodgepodge of companies.
Father's Day is celebrated in some 98 countries over a hodgepodge of different dates.
But a hodgepodge of income phaseouts deny some of the breaks to better-off families.
Inside, the unassuming restaurant is a hodgepodge of tin panelling, mismatched tables, Mexican tapestries and saddle blankets.
Founded in 1847, Carlsberg has grown into a hodgepodge of holdings with little business logic to connect them.
The existing structure, like many in the region, was a hodgepodge, with a three-story house connected to a barn.
The schedule is the unintended consequence of a hodgepodge of habits and coincidences.
Because of a hodgepodge of environmental regulations, the country's petrol market is balkanised.
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Veba was a holy mess at the time, a hodgepodge of more than 60 scattered businesses employing 130, 000 not-very-productive workers.
It is really a hodgepodge of different products including server software, Visual Studio, Windows Embedded device platforms and consulting services.
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The result would be a hodgepodge of regulations that would inconvenience business and erode the notion of an EU climate policy.
She said the proposed Interstate Horse Racing Improvement Act would remove oversight from a hodgepodge of seemingly ineffective state commissions.
After all, the court is to adopt, and its activities are to be governed by, a hodgepodge of legal codes and practices.
Instead, a hodgepodge of state laws governed the area with mixed results.
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But today the company is predominantly a hodgepodge of old-line media properties.
The apartment house where the boy's body was found is in a middle-class neighborhood with a hodgepodge of old and new architecture.
As Daniel Carpenter, a professor of government at Harvard, points out, the demonstration-farm program was just one of a hodgepodge of successful U.S.D.
So Chen's cabinet has wound up consisting of a hodgepodge of people of different ideologies who find it virtually impossible to build team spirit.
The result looked like a rush job: The cover was a hodgepodge that included a bowl of dog food, a picnic basket and gardening gadgets.
Several stables are in disrepair, and the federation's future museum is presently a dilapidated trailer containing photos, animal hides and a hodgepodge of memorabilia and artifacts.
It was the last decade before the emergence of the "McMansion, " Ms. Zaleski says, a less-than-complimentary term for large homes with a hodgepodge of classical influences.
But the gloomy atmosphere that young Japanese often attach to old houses has been replaced with a hodgepodge of stylish retro lighting fixtures and convivial chatter.
Ninety different types of tequila are on offer, many displayed on the back wall along with a hodgepodge of Central American relics and knick knacks, stringed lights, candles and masks.
What seemed like a hodgepodge eventually cohered into a whole.
What I had inherited as a hodgepodge gradually tightened up.
While its media properties are red-hot, this Manhattan company is still struggling to profit from a hodgepodge of 50 ventures it has created or acquired to reach this fickle market.
Today, the group is "a hodgepodge of smaller organizations that seeks alliances with street gangs to keep control of their territory and businesses, " according to an InSight Crime profile of the group.
The main column that cuts down the center of the Facebook home page currently shows a hodgepodge of updates, photos, links and likes from friends, companies, organizations and any other pages you follow.
It is mostly a hodgepodge of local fighting groups with no clear chain of command, meaning it could prove difficult to rein in if Mr. Assad is driven from power, these people say.
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