[1948] in Humor
HUMOR: The Vermonter's Guide to Computer Lingo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 11 11:25:54 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:19:21 EST
From: admin@masshist.org (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:31:59 -0600
To: employee@neural.com
From: Cathy Pope <cpope@neural.com>
Log On: Making the wood stove hotter.
Log Off: Don't add wood.
Monitor: Keep an eye on the wood stove.
Download: Getting the firewood off the pickup.
Mega Hertz: When you're not careful downloading (watch the toes!)
Floppy Disk: What you get from piling too much wood.
RAM: The hydraulic thingy that makes the woodsplitter work.
Hard Drive: Getting home in mud season.
Prompt: What you wish the mail was in mud season.
Windows: What to shut when it's 30 below.
Screen: What you need for black fly season.
Byte: What black flies do.
Chip: What to munch on.
Micro Chip: What's left in the bag when the chips are gone.
Infrared: Where the leftovers go when Fred's around.
Modem: What you did to the hay fields.
Dot Matrix: Farmer Matrix's wife.
Lap Top: Where little kids feel comfy.
Keyboard: Where you hang your keys.
Software: Plastic eating utensils.
Mouse: What eats the horses' grain in the barn.
Main Frame: The part of the barn that holds the roof up.
Port: Fancy wine.
Enter: C'mon in!
Random Access Memory: You can't remember how much that new rifle cost
when your wife asks.
