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Old 10th Apr 2004, 20:45
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* 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

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Love it! Cool - fobs.
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Sorry to be so thick but what's an UTe?

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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).
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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.
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Thank you, lame - one of the best 'easter eggs' I've had for a long time
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No worries..........
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