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Barbara K.
Quit Date: December 23, 2004
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Posted: October 9, 2009 12:47 PM Post subject: Computer Terms for Country folks |
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Log on -- Make the wood stove hotter
Log off -- Don't add no more wood
Monitor -- Keep an eye on that wood stove
Download -- Getting the firewood off the truck
Floppy disk -- What you get from trying to carry too much firewood
Ram -- The thing that splits the firewood
Hard drive -- Getting home in the winter
Prompt -- What the mail ain't in the winter
Window -- What to shut when it's cold outside
Screen -- What to shut in black fly season
Byte -- What the black flies do
Bit -- What the black flies did
Mega Byte -- What the BIG black flies do
Chip-- Munchies for TV
Micro Chip -- What's left in the bag after you eat the chips
Modem -- What you did to the hay fields
Dot matrix -- Old Dan Matrix's wife
Lap top -- Where the kitty sleeps
Software -- The dumb plastic knives & forks they give you at McDonalds
Hardware -- The real stainless steel cutlery.
Mouse -- What eats grain in the barn
Main frame -- What holds the barn up
Enter -- City talk for - "come on in, y'all"
Web -- What a spider makes
Web Site-- The barn or the attic
Cursor -- Someone who swears
Search Engine -- What you do when the car dies
Screen Saver -- A repair kit for the torn window screen
Home Page -- A map you keep in your back pocket just in case you get lost in the field.
Upgrade -- Steep hill.
Server -- The person at the Dairy Queen that brings the food.
Mail Server -- The guy at the Dairy Queen that brings the food.
MSDOS -- Some new disease they discovered.
Sound Card -- One of them technological birthday cards that plays music when you open it.
User -- The neighbor who keeps borrowing stuff.
Browser -- What they call you when your eye brows grow together.
Network -- When you have to repair your fishing net.
Internet -- Complicated fish net repair method.
Netscape -- When a fish maneuvers out of reach.
Online -- When you get the laundry hung out on the washline.
Offline -- The clothes pins let go and the laundry falls on the ground. _________________
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn arouind and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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Barbara K. |
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Mary Dude
Quit Date: June 15, 2004
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Posted: October 9, 2009 9:17 PM Post subject: |
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Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness! |
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Cowgirl UP!
Quit Date: July 26, 2004
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Posted: October 9, 2009 11:27 PM Post subject: |
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Beth
Quit Date: September 3, 2009
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Posted: October 24, 2009 5:50 PM Post subject: |
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Thanks for making me smile. I loved this post. Though have to admit it had me longing to move back to a small little town in New York, up by the Quebec border. I miss that town. I miss going to the post office to pick up my mail and it would turn into social hour. The post office had a little sitting area set up. Coffee always warm and people would bring plates of cookies. We never locked our doors, or thought twice about letting a car run while we ran into the store on a cold winter's day. |
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Cowgirl UP!
Quit Date: July 26, 2004
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Posted: October 24, 2009 8:49 PM Post subject: |
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Beth, that sounds like the perfect little town..except I am not that fond of the cold or alot of snow...
Kay _________________
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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: October 25, 2009 12:10 AM Post subject: |
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Beth wrote: |
...it had me longing to move back to a small little town in New York, up by the Quebec border... |
can't be plattsburgh... hmmm... let's see... champlain? rouse's point? further west? chateaugay? _________________
keep choosing life!
kevin
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Beth
Quit Date: September 3, 2009
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Posted: October 25, 2009 12:21 PM Post subject: |
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Kevin I lived in Peru...close guess with Plattsburgh and Rouses Pointe. Sure miss my hikes along Lake Champlain. |
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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: October 25, 2009 12:53 PM Post subject: |
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i spent a lot of time on the lower part of champlain years ago; i taught a junior drum and bugle corps in port henry, and several times spent the entire summer on bulwagga bay.
a bunch of friends and i also used to go to rouses point maybe half a dozen times a year to fish off that pier that used to be the railroad bridge to vermont.
those were great times... _________________
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Barbara K.
Quit Date: December 23, 2004
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Posted: October 25, 2009 7:42 PM Post subject: |
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Blessings,
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