Rural Australian Computer Terms

[Humpty]

* Log on - Make the barbie hotter

* Log off - Don't add any more wood

* Monitor - Keep an-eye on that barbie

* Download - Getting the firewood off the ute

* Floppy disc - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood

* Window - What to shut when it's cold outside

* Screen - What to shut in the mosquito season

* Byte - What the mosquitos do

* Bit - What the mosquitos did

* Mega Byte - What the Townsville mosquitos do

* Chip - A bar snack

* Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat the chips

* Modem - What you did to the hay field

* Dot Matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife

* Laptop - Where the cat sleeps

* Software - The plastic knives and forks they give you at the Red Rooster

* Hardware - The real stainless steel cutlery

* Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed

* Mainframe - What holds the shed up

* Web - What a spider makes

* Web site - The shed or under the verandah

* Cursor - Someone who swears

* Search Engine - What you do when the ute won't go

* Upgrade - Steep hill

* Server - The person at the hotel who brings the counter lunch

* Mail Server - The bloke at the hotel who brings the counter lunch

* Sound Card - The one that wins the hand of 500

* User - The neighbour who keeps borrowing stuff

* Network - When you have to repair your fishing net

* Internet - Complicated fish net repair method

* Netscape - When a fish maneuvers out of reach

* Online - When you get the laundry hung out on the washing line

* Off line - When the clothes pegs let go and the washing falls on the ground

[hazelnut]

 

[Tunerz]

 

I liked the Internet line

[CTskifreak]

I personally like the Modem line... almost something they would say in the south. lol

 

AJ

[Andavari]

I liked Upgrade and thought "what if someone takes their PC to a computer shop and asks for them to upgrade it." I suppose it would be on the nearest steep hill when they went back to get it.