Thread: Boere Computer Dictionary

Only the South Africans and Namibians will understand it!

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 lake 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 - Oom Jan Matrix's wife (classic!)

Laptop - Where the cat sleeps

Software - Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC

Hardware - Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers

Mouse - Mouse Pad

What eats the grain in the shed - 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 stoep)

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 what brings out the lunch

Mail Server - The bloke at the pub what brings out the lunch

User - The neighbour what 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

(No idea where this originated)