Australian Computer Language Explained.
* 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: |
Love it! :D Cool - fobs.
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Sorry to be so thick but what's an UTe? :oh:
Cheers amofw |
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). ;) |
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:D
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No worries.......... :ok:
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