Boere Computer Dictionary from South Africa
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 dam do
Chip-A bar snack
Micro Chip-What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
Modem-What you do 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 you get at Spur
Mouse-What eats the grain in the shed
Mouse Pad-Where the mouse takes the grain it does not eat
Mainframe-What holds the shed up
Web-What spiders make
Web Site-
The shed (or under the verandah)
Cursor-The old bloke what 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 that brings out the lunch
Mail Server-The bloke at the pub that brings out the lunch
User-The neighbour that 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
Floppy Drive - When Jonas take your plaas wekkas to the clinic . . .
Virus- The reason your wekkas go on a floppy drive to the clinic
Antivirus- The medication the wekkas get at the clinic
Virus protection- Free condoms for the wekkas at the clinic
Makes me wonder how there could have been life before computers
