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lame
10th Apr 2004, 20:45
* Log On - Make the barbecue hotter

* Log Off - The barbecue is too hot

* Monitor - Keeping an eye on the barbecue

* Download - Get the firewood off the Ute

* Hard drive - Trip back home without any cold tinnies

* Floppy Disc - What you get lifting too much firewood at once

* Keyboard - Where you hang the Ute 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 Townsville mosquitoes do

* Chip - A bar snack

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

* Modem - What you did to the lawns

* Dot Matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife

* Laptop - Where the cat sleeps

* Software - Plastic knives and forks you get at Big Rooster

* Hardware - Real stainless steel knives and forks from K Mart

* 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 veranda

* Cursor - The old bloke who swears a lot

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

* Yahoo - What you say when the Ute does go

* Upgrade - A steep hill

* Server - The person at the pub who brings out the counter lunch

* Mail Server - The bloke at the pub that brings out the counter lunch

* 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 manoeuvres out of reach of net

* Online - When you get the laundry hung out

* Off Line - When the pegs don't hold the washing up

:ok:

fobotcso
10th Apr 2004, 22:00
Love it! :D Cool - fobs.

amanoffewwords
10th Apr 2004, 22:22
Sorry to be so thick but what's an UTe? :oh:

Cheers
amofw

lame
10th Apr 2004, 22:30
For some reason I cannot post attachments to show you? :(

Surely you must have them there?

You may know them by their full name of "utility", or similar to what Americans would call a pick up (truck). ;)

The Nr Fairy
11th Apr 2004, 06:50
Any English networking peeps working in Oz for the first time VERY RAPIDLY get into pronouncing the word "rowter", not "rooter". It always gets a laugh.

BOAC
11th Apr 2004, 09:04
Thank you, lame - one of the best 'easter eggs' I've had for a long time:D

lame
11th Apr 2004, 20:15
No worries.......... :ok: