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Subject: reprinted from mid-january FARM JOURNAL
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Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 08:56:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 08:56:54 1984
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Terms that would choke a computer:

Batch: a "whole lot" - like the batch of biscuits my
       wife bakes for breakfast.

Bit:   the part of the bridle that goes in the horse's mouth.

Byte:  what the horse may try to do when you put the
       bit in its mouth.

Calling Sequence:  rules for a hollerin' contest.

Chad:  my nephew.

Character:  Wendell Smith, up the road.  He can make a dog laugh.

Chip:  my son.  My wife says he's off the old block!

Conversion: what happens to some folks at our spring revival.

Debug: picking beetles off the plants and dropping them
       into a can of kerosene.

Debugging Aids: grandchildren.

Diskette: (pronounced diskit) what you do to a field after
       you plow it.

Documentation: what the vet does.

Echo Check: hollerin' twice from the same place.

Fixed Field: it's ready to plant.

Garbage: I haul it off myself.

Input: labor, seed, and fertilizer.

Job Stacking: working in the hayfield.

Keyboard: the beam aboce the kitchen door where we keep the keys.

Main Memory: my wife's - she never forgets anything.

Menu: it all depends on what's in season.

Modem: what I did with my oats before Job Stacking.

Output: crop from my "input".

Ram: Ramses Rogers, down the road. Drives a red pickup.

Rom: Ram's twin brother.  He drives a red pickup too.  Can't
     tell 'em apart, except for their mufflers.

Secondary Memory: my Dad's. If my wife can't remember it, my
     Dad can - he'll be 93 next month!

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