[17771] in Athena Bugs
Fwd: Maine humor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Katherine Burke)
Thu Apr 13 10:02:21 2000
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:01:13 -0400
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From: Katherine Burke <kburke@MIT.EDU>
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>From: "Jane E. Roberts" <jer@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Fwd: Maine humor
>
>>From: "Adams, John W" <JohnW_Adams@CGUUSA.com>
>>To: "'bmah@yahoo.com'" <bmah@yahoo.com>,
>> "'sfirehead@hotmail.com'"
>> <sfirehead@hotmail.com>,
>> "'lpdeco@vermontel.com'" <lpdeco@vermontel.com>,
>> "'chicken__butt@hotmail.com'" <chicken__butt@hotmail.com>,
>> "'blackdog1@pipeline.com'" <blackdog1@pipeline.com>,
>> "'mikeflyrod@aol.com'" <mikeflyrod@AOL.com>,
>> "'julius_chang@excite.com'"
>> <julius_chang@excite.com>,
>> "'jmcknigh@gis.net'" <jmcknigh@gis.net>,
>> "'bwolf54@gobi.com'" <bwolf54@gobi.com>,
>> "'dlibertone@ucicorp.com'"
>> <dlibertone@ucicorp.com>,
>> "'Richard_Walker@WrightExpress.com'"
>> <Richard_Walker@wrightexpress.com>,
>> "'lazarus@maine.rr.com'"
>> <lazarus@maine.rr.com>,
>> "'linda_earls@wrightexpress.com'"
>> <linda_earls@wrightexpress.com>,
>> "'bwayneh1@bellsouth.net'"
>> <bwayneh1@bellsouth.net>,
>> "'tarek_el@yahoo.com'" <tarek_el@yahoo.com>,
>> "'bike629@aol.com'" <bike629@AOL.com>,
>> "'kentdolmyer@mindspring.com'"
>> <kentdolmyer@mindspring.com>,
>> "'clupusme@nlis.net'" <clupusme@nlis.net>,
>> "'gsimms1@maine.rr.com'" <gsimms1@maine.rr.com>,
>> "'ItsMustang@aol.com'"
>> <ItsMustang@AOL.com>,
>> "'Dave.Walker@nike.com'" <Dave.Walker@nike.com>,
>> "'jer@mit.edu'" <jer@MIT.EDU>,
>> "'cghisolfi@ucicorp.com'"
>> <cghisolfi@ucicorp.com>,
>> "'yellmoo@earthlink.net'"
>> <yellmoo@earthlink.net>,
>> "'dmacchi@nyacol.com'" <dmacchi@nyacol.com>,
>> "'cshull@nyacol.com'" <cshull@nyacol.com>,
>> "'Applesjojo@aol.com'"
>> <Applesjojo@AOL.com>,
>> "'hfrmystr@vermontel.com'"
>> <hfrmystr@vermontel.com>
>>Subject: Maine humor
>>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:51:55 -0400
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>>
>>Hope you enjoy these.
>>
>>Walker
>>"No! Try not! Do or do not. There is no try." ~ CyberWalker
>>
>>> > MAINE 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
>>> > McDonald's.
>>> > 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
>>> >
>>
>
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