Aggie Computer Jargin: Some terms ya need to be familiar with to do bidness in Aggie country:
LOG ON Making a wood stove hotter
LOG OFF Don’t add no mo’ wood
MONITOR Keeping an eye on the woodstove
DOWNLOAD Gettin the farwood ofn the truk
MEGA HERTZ When yer not keerful gettin the farwood
FLOPPY DISK Whacha git from tryin to carry too much
farwood
RAM That thar thing whut splits the farwood
HARD DRIVE Gettin home in the winter time
PROMPT Whut the mail ain’t in the winter time
WINDOWS Whut to shut when it’s cold outside
SCREEN Whut to shut when it’s blak fly season
BYTE Whut them dang flys do
CHIP Munchies fer the TV
MICRO CHIP Whut’s left in the munchie bag
MODEM Whacha did to the hay fields
DOT MATRIX Old Dan Matrix’s wife
LAP TOP Whar the kitty sleeps
KEYBOARD Whar ya hang the dang keys
SOFTWARE Them dang plastic forks and knifs
MOUSE What eats the grain in the barn
MAIN FRAME Holds up the barn ruf
PORT Fancy Flatlander wine
ENTER Northerner talk fer, C’mon in y’all
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY When ya cain’t ‘member whut ya paid
fer yer rifle when yore wife asks
MOUSE PAD That hippie talk fer the rat hole
That list is a hoot, composed I’d expect in some funny-smelling-smoke filled basement in Austin. In the same way that Polish jokes in America, Irish jokes in Australia, and Newfie jokes in Canada are all virtually identical, you could apply this list to country folks from sea to shining sea.