Newfoundland Computer Lingo
1.Log on: Make the wood stove hotter
2.Log off: Don't add no more wood
3.Monitor: Keep an eye on that wood stove
4.Download: Getting the firewood off the truck
5.Floppy Disk: What you fet from trying to carry to
much firewood
6.Ram: The thing that splits the firewood
7.Hard Drive: Getting home in the winter
8.Prompt: "Throw another log on the fire"
9.Window: What to shut when it's cold outside
10.Screen: What to shut in fly season
11.Byte: What flies do
12.Bit: What the flies did
13:Mega Byte What BIG flies do
14.Chip: Munchies when monitoring
15.Micro Chip What's left after you eat the chips
16.Modem. What you did to the hay fields
17.Dot Matrix Old Dan Matrixs' wife
18.Lap top. Where kitty sleeps
19.Software The dumb plastic knives and forks they
give you at the Big R
20.Hardware Real stainless steel cutlery
21.Mouse What eats the grain in the barn
22.Main Frame What holds up the barn
23.Enter City talk for "Come on in, b'y"
24.Web The things spiders makes
25.Web Site The barn or attic
26.Cursor Someone who swears a lot
27.Search Engine What you do when the car dies
28.Screen Saver A repair kit for the torn window screen
29.Home Page A map you keep in your back pocket just
in case you get lost when picking burries
30.Upgrade Driving up Barters' Hill
31.Server The Mrs. at Donovan's who brings the
jigs' dinner
32.Mail Server The guy at Big R with grade 8 who brings
fish
33.MS-DOS Some new disease they discovered
34.Sound Card One of them technological birthday cards
that plays music
35*User Buddy down your street who keeps coming
over borrowing stuff
36.Browser What they call you when your eyebrows
grow together
37.Network When you have to repair your fishin net
38.Internet Where the fish get caught
39.Netscape When a fish gets away
40.On-line When you gets the laundry on the washline
41.Off-line When the clothespins let go and the
laundry falls on the ground