Thursday, February 21, 2008

Boere IT Dictionary

 

 The Boere Computer Dictionary 


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  


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 that 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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