Rural Australian Computer Terms


Log on - Make the barbie hotter.

Log off - Don't add any more wood.

Monitor - Keeping a eye on the barbie.

Download - Get the firewood off the ute.

Floppy disc - What you get lifting too much firewood at once.

Window - What you shut when it's cold.

Screen - What you shut in the mozzie season.

Byte - What mozzies do.

Bit - What mozzies did.

Mega byte - What Townsville mozzies do.

Chip - A bar snack.

Micro chip - Whats left in the bag after you have eaten the chips.

Modem - What you did to the hay fields.

Dot Matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife.

Laptop - Where the cat sleeps.

Software - Plastic knives and forks you get at Red Rooster.

Hardware - Real stainless steel knives and forks.

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.

Curser - The old bloke that swears a lot.

Search engine - What you do when the ute won't go.

Upgrade - A steep hill.

Server - The person at the pub that brings out the counter lunch.

Mail server - The bloke at the pub that brings out the counter lunch.

Sound card - The bower that wins the hand of 500.

User - The neighbour who keeps borrowing things.

Network - When you have to repair your fishing net.

Internet - Complicated fish net repair method.

Netscape - When fish manouvers out of reach of net.

Online - When you get the laundry hung out.

Off line - When the pegs don't hold the washing up.