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Hi everyone, Thought some of you might find these terms rather definitive :) Cheers, Leo ---------- > > MAINE OR NOVA SCOTIA COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY > > 1. Log on - Make the wood stove hotter > > 2. Log off - Don't add no more wood > > 3. Monitor - Keep an eye on that wood stove > > 4. Download - Getting the firewood off the truck > > 5. Floppy disk - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood > > 6. Ram - The thing that splits the firewood > > 7. Hard Drive - Getting home in the winter > > 8. Prompt - What the mail ain't in the winter > > 9. Window - What to shut when it's cold outside > > 10. Screen - What to shut in black fly season > > 11. Byte - What the black flies do > > 12. Bit - What the black flies did > > 13. Mega Byte - What the BIG black flies do during trout season > > 14. Chip - Munchies for TV > > 15. Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat the chips > > 16. Modem - What you did to the weeds growing in the driveway > > 17. Dot matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife > > 18. Lap top - Where the beer spills when you pass out > > 19. Software - The dumb plastic knives and forks they give you at > > McDonalds > > 20. Hardware - Real stainless steel cutlery > > 21. Mouse - What makes the holes in the Cheerios box > > 22. Main frame - What holds the house up, hopefully > > 23. Enter - The only way to win those magazine ad sweepstakes > > 24. Web - What a spider makes > > 25. Web site - High corners of the ceiling > > 26. Cursor - Someone who swears > > 27. Search Engine - What you do when the car dies > > 28. Screen Saver - repair kit for the torn window screen > > 29. Home Page - map you keep in your back pocket just in case you > > get lost in the woods > > 30. Upgrade - Steep hill > > 31. Server - waitress > > 32. Mail Server - male waitress, damn few in Maine > > 33. MS DOS - Some new disease they discovered > > 34. Sound Card - One of them technological birthday cards that plays > > music when you open it > > 35. User - The neighbor who keeps borrowing stuff > > 36. Browser - A problem moose in the Garden or Blueberry Patch > > 37. Network - Mending holes in the gillnet > > 38. Internet - Complicated fish net repair method > > 39. Netscape - What haddock do when you don't do your network > > 40. Online - good sign there'll be clean clothes this week > > 41. Off line - the clothes pins let go and the laundry falls on the > > ground--better luck next week _________________________________ Leo J. Deveau, Executive Director, Chebucto Community Net c/o Room 125, Chase Building, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canada ljdeveau@chebucto.ns.ca _____________________________________ People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. -Unknown _____________________________________ A community will evolve only when the people control their means of communication. -- Frantz Fanon
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