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02-08-2007, 09:20 PM
Ø The Boere Computer Dictionary from South Africa
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> Monitor: Keeping an eye on the braai
> Download: Get the firewood off the bakkie
> Hard drive: Trip back home without any cold beer
> Keyboard: Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys
> Window: What you shut when it's cold
> Screen: What you shut in the mosquito season
> Byte: What mosquitoes do
> Bit: What mosquitoes did
> Mega Byte: What mosquitoes at the lake do
> Chip: A bar snack
> Micro Chip: What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
> Modem: What you did to the lawns
> Dot Matrix: Oom Jan Matrix's wife (classic!)
> Laptop: Where the cat sleeps
> Software: Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC
> Hardware: Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers
> Mouse: What eats the grain in the shed
> Mainframe: What holds the shed up
> Web: What spiders make
> Web Site: The shed (or under the verandah)
> Cursor: The old bloke what swears a lot
> Search Engine: What you do when the bakkie won't go
> Yahoo: What you say when the bakkie does go
> Upgrade: A steep hill
> Server: The person at the pub what brings out the lunch
> Mail Server: The bloke at the pub what brings out the lunch
> User: The neighbour what keeps borrowing things
> Network: When you have to repair your fishing net
> Internet: Complicated fish net repair method
> Netscape: When fish maneuvers out of reach of net
> Online: When you get the laundry hung out
> Off Line: When the pegs don't hold the washing up
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> Monitor: Keeping an eye on the braai
> Download: Get the firewood off the bakkie
> Hard drive: Trip back home without any cold beer
> Keyboard: Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys
> Window: What you shut when it's cold
> Screen: What you shut in the mosquito season
> Byte: What mosquitoes do
> Bit: What mosquitoes did
> Mega Byte: What mosquitoes at the lake do
> Chip: A bar snack
> Micro Chip: What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
> Modem: What you did to the lawns
> Dot Matrix: Oom Jan Matrix's wife (classic!)
> Laptop: Where the cat sleeps
> Software: Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC
> Hardware: Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers
> Mouse: What eats the grain in the shed
> Mainframe: What holds the shed up
> Web: What spiders make
> Web Site: The shed (or under the verandah)
> Cursor: The old bloke what swears a lot
> Search Engine: What you do when the bakkie won't go
> Yahoo: What you say when the bakkie does go
> Upgrade: A steep hill
> Server: The person at the pub what brings out the lunch
> Mail Server: The bloke at the pub what brings out the lunch
> User: The neighbour what keeps borrowing things
> Network: When you have to repair your fishing net
> Internet: Complicated fish net repair method
> Netscape: When fish maneuvers out of reach of net
> Online: When you get the laundry hung out
> Off Line: When the pegs don't hold the washing up