S'more Really Useful Computer Terms
BIT:
A word used to describe computers, as in "Our son's computer
cost quite a bit."
BOOT:
What your friends give you because you spend too much time
bragging about your computer skills.
BUG:
What your eyes do after you stare at the tiny green computer
screen for more than 15 minutes. Also: what computer magazine
companies do to you after they get your name on their mailing list.
CHIPS:
The fattening, non-nutritional food computer users eat to avoid
having to leave their keyboards for meals.
COPY:
What you have to do during school tests because you spend too
much time at the computer and not enough studying.
CURSOR:
What you turn into when you can't get your computer to
perform, as in "You $#% computer!"
DISK:
What goes out in your back after bending over a computer
keyboard for seven hours.
DUMP:
The place all your former hobbies wind up soon after you
get a new computer.
ERROR:
What you made the first time you walked into a computer
showroom to "just look."
EXPANSION UNIT:
The new room you have to build on to your home to house
your computer and all its peripherals.
FILE:
What your secretary can now do to her nails six and a half
hours a day, now that the computer does her day's work in
30 minutes.
FLOPPY:
The condition of a constant computer user's stomach due
to lack of exercise and a steady diet of junk food (see CHIPS).
HARDWARE:
Tools, such as lawn mowers, rakes and other heavy equipment
you haven't laid a finger on since getting your computer.
IBM:
The kind of missile your family members and friends would like
to drop on your computer so you'll pay attention to them again.
MENU:
What you'll never see again after buying a computer because
you'll be too poor to eat in a restaurant.
MONITOR:
Often thought to be a word associated with computers, this
word actually refers to those obnoxious kids who always want
to see your hall pass at school.
PROGRAMS:
Those things you used to look at on your television before you
hooked your computer up to it.
RETURN:
What lots of people do with their computers after only a week
and a half.
TERMINAL:
A place where you can find buses, trains and really good deals
on hot computers.
WINDOW:
What you heave the computer out of after you accidentally
erase a program that took you three days to set up.
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