----- Forwarded message begins -----
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:47:01 +1100
>From: Phil Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
>Subject: Rural Australian Computer Terms
Log on - Make the barbie hotter
Log off - Don't add any more wood
Monitor - Keep an-eye on that barbie
Download - Getting the firewood off the ute
Floppy disc - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood
Window - What to shut when it's cold outside
Screen - What to shut in the mosquito season
Byte - What the mosquitos do
Bit - What the mosquitos did
Mega Byte - What the Townsville mosquitos do
Chip - A bar snack
Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat the chips
Modem - What you did to the hay field
Dot Matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife
Laptop - Where the cat sleeps
Software - The plastic knives and forks they give you at Red Rooster
Hardware - The real stainless steel cutlery
Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed
Mainframe - What holds the shed up
Web - What a spider makes
Web site - The shed or under the verandah
Cursor - Someone who swears
Search Engine - What you do when the ute won't go
Upgrade - Steep hill
Server - The person at the hotel who brings the counter lunch
Mail Server - The person at the hotel who brings the mail
Sound Card - The one that wins the hand of 500
User - The neighbour who keeps borrowing stuff
Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
Netscape - When a fish manoeuvres out of reach
Online - When you get the laundry hung out on the washing line
Off line - When the clothes pegs let go and the washing falls on the ground
------ Forwarded message ends ------
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message.
Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
More info can be found at;
http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
