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Here is something written at 4wzyc Yahoo! groups by Delara C. Mistry, Vice-Chair of the 4th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress, 2007.

Hi everyone!

Seeing as we are learning a bit of 'Aussie lingo' as we go... (and before you ALL head downunder for the congress), I thought I would forward you this humourous email that has been circulating around work.... My favs are megabyte, modem, the difference between software and hardware, and Yahoo! lol. Hope you find it as entertaining as i did!

take care!!

Del

Perth, Western Australia (and lovin it!!! )

THE RURAL AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY

* 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 McDonald's
* 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 verandah
* 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 sheila 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.