Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!psuvax!psuvm%rak From: psuvm%rak@psuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: reprinted from mid-january FARM JOURNAL Message-ID: <427@psuvm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 08:56:54 EST Article-I.D.: psuvm.427 Posted: Thu Feb 16 08:56:54 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 01:08:02 EST Lines: 60 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! RAK@PSUVM on bitnet