Computer Terms – Texas Translation

LOG ON: Making a wood stove hotter.

LOG OFF: Don’t add no more wood.

MONITOR: Keeping an eye on the wood stove.

DOWNLOAD: Gettin’ the farwood off the truck

MEGA HERTZ: When yer not keerful gettin’ the farwood

FLOPPY DISC: Whatcha git from tryin to carry too much farwood

RAM: That thing tha splits the farwood

HARD DRIVE: Gettin’ home in the winter time

PROMPT: What the mail ain’t in the winter time

WINDOWS: What to shut when it’s cold outside

SCREEN: What to shut when it’s black fly season

BYTE: What them dang flies do

CHIP: Munchies fer the TV

MICRO CHIP: What’s in the bottom of the munchie bag

MODEM: Whatcha did to the hay fields

DOT MATRIX: Old Dan Matrix’s wife

LAP TOP: Where the kitty sleeps

KEYBOARD: Where ya hang the dang truck keys

SOFTWARE: Them dang plastic forks and knives

MOUSE: What eats the grain in the barn

MOUSE PAD: That’s hippie talk fer the mouse hole

MAIN FRAME: Holds up the barn roof

ENTER: Northerner talk fer “c’mon in, y’all”

RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY: When ya can’t ‘member what ya paid fer the rifle

Types of Computer Viruses

Adam and Eve virus: Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple.

Airline virus: You’re in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.

Anita Hill virus: Lies dormant for ten years.

Arnold Schwarzenegger virus: Terminates and stays resident. It’ll be back.

AT&T virus: Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are getting.

The MCI virus: Every three minutes it reminds you that you’re paying too much for the AT&T virus.

Barack Obama virus: Doesn’t do anything, but you can’t get rid of it until November.

Bill Clinton virus: This virus mutates from region to region and we’re not exactly sure what it does.

Bill Clinton virus: Promises to give equal time to all processes: 50% to poor, slow processes; 50% to middle-class processes, and 50% to rich ones. This virus protests your computer’s involvement in other computer’s affairs, even though it has been having one of its own for 12 years.

Congressional Virus: Overdraws your computer.

Congressional Virus: The computer locks up, screen splits erratically with a message appearing on each half blaming the other side for the problem.

Dan Quayle virus: Prevents your system from spawning any child processes without joining into a binary network.

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David Duke virus: Makes your screen go completely white.

Elvis virus: Your computer gets fat, slow, and lazy and then self destructs, only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.

Federal bureaucrat virus: Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which do practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part of the computer.

Freudian virus: Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.

Gallup virus: Sixty percent of the PCs infected will lose 38 percent of their data 14 percent of the time (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin of error).

Government economist virus: Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.

Jerry Brown virus: Blanks your screen and begins flashing an 800 number.

Madonna virus: If your computer gets this virus, lock up your dog!

Mario Cuomo virus: It would be a great virus, but it refuses to run.

Michael Jackson virus: Hard to identify because it is constantly altering its appearance. This virus won’t harm your PC, but it will trash your car.

New World Order virus: probably harmless, but it makes a lot of people really mad just thinking about it.

Nike virus: Just Does It!

Ollie North virus: Turns your printer into a document shredder.

Oprah Winfrey virus: Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands back to 200MB.

Pat Buchanan virus: Shifts all your output to the extreme right of your screen.

Paul Revere virus: This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It warns you of impending hard disk attack—once if by LAN, twice if by C:.

Paul Tsongas virus: Pops up on December 25 and says, “I’m not Santa Claus.”

PBS virus: Your PC stops every few minutes to ask for money.

Politically correct virus: Never calls itself a “virus”, but instead refers to itself as an “electronic microorganism”.

Richard Nixon virus: Also known as the “Tricky Dick Virus”, you can wipe it out but it always makes a comeback.

Right To Life virus: Won’t allow you to delete a file, regardless of how old it is. If you attempt to erase a file, it requires you to first see a counselor about possible alternatives.

Ross Perot virus: Activates every component in your system, just before the whole thing quits.

Ted Kennedy virus: Crashes your computer but denies it ever happened.

Ted Turner virus: Colorizes your monochrome monitor.

Terry Randle virus: Prints “Oh no you don’t” whenever you choose “Abort” from the “Abort, Retry, Fail” message.

Texas virus: Makes sure that it’s bigger than any other file.

UK Parliament virus: Splits the screen into two with a message in each half blaming other side for the state of the system.

Warren Commission virus: Won’t allow you to open your files for 75 years.

Halloween Groaners

Where do baby ghosts go during the day? Dayscare centers.

What do witches put on their hair? Scare spray.

What do you get when you cross Bambi with a ghost? Bamboo.

What kind of mistakes do spooks make? Boo-boos.

What kind of cereal do monsters eat? Ghost Toasties.

What does Tweety Bird say on Halloween? Twick or tweet.

Where do spooks water ski? Lake Erie.

Where do ghosts mail their letters? The Ghost Office.

What’s a ghost’s favorite carnival ride? The roller ghoster.

How do you mend a broken Jack-O-Lantern? With a pumpkin patch.

When does a skeleton laugh? When something tickles his funny bone.

Why was the mummy so tense? He was all wound up.

What does a skeleton order at a restaurant? Spare ribs.

What do goblins mail while on vacation? Ghostcards.

What’s a ghost’s favorite party game? Hide and go shriek.

What do baby ghosts wear on their feet? Boo-ties.

What did the boy ghost say to the girl ghost? You look boo-tiful tonite.

What is a ghosts favorite article of clothing? Boo jeans.

What does a ghost put on his cereal? Boonanas and booberries.

Who did the ghost invite to his party? Anyone he could dig up.

What is a monster’s favorite snack? Ghoul Scout Cookies.

What did the skeleton say while riding his motorcycle? I’m bone to be wild.

Why does Dracula consider himself a good artist. Because he likes to draw blood.

What is a vampire’s favorite candy? A red sucker.

What do ghosts put in their coffee? Scream and sugar.

What do you call a witch who lives at the beach? A sand-witch.

What do ghosts eat for dinner? Spookgetti.

Why do girl ghosts go on diets? So they can keep their ghoulish figures.

Why was the ghost such a messy eater? Because he was always goblin his food.

What tops off a ghosts ice cream sundae? Whipped scream.

What’s a mummies favorite type of music? Wrap.

What song do vampires hate? You Are My Sunshine.

What type of monster really loves dance music? The Boogieman.

Where does a ghost go on Saturday night? Someplace he can boo-gie.

Why didn’t the skeleton dance at the party? He had no body to dance with.

What kind of tie does a ghost wear to a formal event? A boo-tie.

Why did the game warden arrest the ghost? He didn’t have a haunting license.

Where did the goblin throw the football? Over the ghoul line.

What do you call a goblin who gets too close to a bonfire? A toasty ghostie.

What kind of makeup do goblins wear? Mas-scare-a.

Which building do vampires hang out at in New York? The Vampire State Building.

What do you get when you cross a black cat with a lemon? A sour puss.

Which instrument do skeletons play? The trom-bone.

Why didn’t the skeleton cross the road? He didn’t have the guts.

How do you know vampires like baseball? Every night they turn into bats.

What is it like to be kissed by a vampire? A real pain in the neck.

Why did Dracula take cold medicine? To stop his coffin.

What do you call two witches living together? Broommates.

What do you call a witch’s garage? A broom closet.

Why don’t mummies take vacations? They’re afraid to relax and unwind.

Why did the ghost go into the bar? For the boos, of course.

What kind of dog does Dracula have? A bloodhound.

Why did the vampire quit the baseball team? They would only let him be the bat boy.

The Definition of Specific Tools

DRILL PRESS
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.

WIRE WHEEL
Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, “Oh, shit!”

SKILL SAW
A portable cutting tool used to make framing studs too short.

PLIERS
Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.

BELT SANDER
An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.

HACKSAW
One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle … It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

VISE-GRIPS
Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

OXYACETYLENE TORCH
Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.

TABLE SAW
A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.

HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK
Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new> brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.

BAND SAW
A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside.

TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST
A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER
Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.

STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER
A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.

PRY BAR
A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.

HOSE CUTTER
A tool used to make hoses too short.

HAMMER
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent to the object we are trying to hit usually smashing the thumb that is holding the object that you are trying to pound into whatever it is that you are working on effectively eliminating the need for manicure care on that thumbnail for weeks. See: ‘Son of a bitch TOOL’

SON OF A BITCH TOOL
Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling, “Son of a bitch” at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

38 Kinder, Gentler Ways to Say Someone is Stupid

1. A few clowns short of a circus

2. A few fries short of a Happy Meal

3. An experiment in artificial stupidity

4. A few beers short of a six-pack

5. Dumber than a box of hair

6. A few peas short of a casserole

7. Doesn’t have all his cornflakes in one box

8. The wheel’s spinning but the hamster’s dead

9. One Froot Loop shy of a full bowl

10. One taco short of a combo plate

11. A few feathers short of a whole duck

12. All foam, no beer

13. The cheese slid off the cracker

14. Body by Fisher – Brains by Mattel

15. Has an IQ of 2 and it takes 3 to grunt

16. Warning: Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear

17. Couldn’t pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel

18. He fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down

19. An intellect rivaled only by garden tools

20. As smart as bait

21. Chimney’s clogged

22. Doesn’t have all his dogs on one leash

23. Doesn’t know much but leads the league in nostril hair

24. Elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor

25. Forgot to pay his brain bill

26. Her sewing machine’s out of thread

27. His antenna doesn’t pick up all the channels

28. His belt doesn’t go through all the loops

29. If he had another brain it would be lonely

30. Missing a few buttons on his remote control

31. No grain in the silo

32. Proof that evolution CAN go in reverse

33. Receiver is off the hook

34. Several nuts short of a full pouch

35. Skylight leaks a little

36. Slinky’s kinked

37. Surfing in Nebraska

38. Too much yardage between the goal posts

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