This is an absolute CLASSIC! Only a South African will understand it!
Boere Computer Dictionary from South Africa
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Monitor |
Keeping an eye on the braai |
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Download |
Get the firewood off the bakkie |
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Hard drive |
Trip back home without any cold beer |
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Keyboard |
Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys |
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Window |
What you shut when it's cold |
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Screen |
What you shut in the mosquito season |
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Byte |
What mosquitoes do |
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Bit |
What mosquitoes did |
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Mega Byte |
What mosquitoes at the dam do |
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Chip |
A bar snack |
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Micro Chip |
What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips |
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Modem |
What you did to the lawns |
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Dot Matrix |
Oom Jan Matrix's wife |
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Laptop |
Where the cat sleeps |
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Software |
Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC |
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Hardware |
Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers |
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Mouse |
What eats the grain in the shed |
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Mainframe |
What holds the shed up |
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Web |
What spiders make |
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Web Site |
The shed (or under the verandah) |
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Cursor |
The old bloke what swears a lot |
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Search Engine |
What you do when the bakkie won't go |
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Yahoo |
What you say when the bakkie does go |
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Upgrade |
A steep hill |
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Server |
The person at the pub that brings out the lunch |
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Mail Server |
The bloke at the pub that brings out the lunch |
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User |
The neighbour that keeps borrowing things |
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Network |
When you have to repair your fishing net |
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Internet |
Complicated fish net repair method |
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Netscape |
When fish maneuvers out of reach of net |
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Online |
When you get the laundry hung out |
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Off Line |
When the pegs don't hold the washing up |
Floppy Drive ----- When you take your plaas wekkas to the clinic . . .
Blog – shortened version of Braai Log
Virus – the reason your wekkas go on a floppy drive to the clinic
Anti – virus – the medication the wekkas get at the clinic
Virus protection – free condoms for the wekkas at the clinic
Stiffy – what happens to the wekkas when the anti-virus doesn’t wek
