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- The Incomplete and Abridged Computer Term Lexicon
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- ANALOG - Hors d'oeuvre, usually made of cheese and covered with crushed
- nuts. Served at all staff parties.
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- APPLE - Typically, a device used to seduce men. Usually equipped with
- display screens and/or worms.
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- BAR CHART - A list of places to go when it's Miller time.
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- BINARY - Possessing the ability to have friends of both sexes.
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- BIPOLAR - Refers to someone who has homes in Nome, Alaska, and Buffalo,
- New York.
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- BIT - Similar to a nibble. Commonly eight nibbles to a mouthful. See
- BYTE.
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- BPI - A 1960s term used to describe unmentionable parts of the anatomy,
- as in "you bet your bpi."
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- BUBBLE MEMORY - A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's
- intelligence. See also "vacuum tube."
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- BUG - Small living things that small boys throw on small living girls.
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- BYTE - A mouthful, as in "How many bytes in a Big Mac?"
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- CASSETTE - A very small petite cass - usually achieved through exercise.
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- CPU - A juvenile way of telling your dog he missed the paper.
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- CHARACTER DENSITY - The number of very weird people in the office.
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- CHIP - Any number of small crunchy objects often served with onion dip.
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- CLOSED LOOP - A method of execution no longer in vogue except in Iran.
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- CODE - Virus lasting about three to five days, accompanied by sore
- throat, runny nose and fever.
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- COMMAND - Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in
- such a manner as to make the human fell as if he is in control.
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- COMPILE - A heap of decomposing vegetable matter.
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- CONVERSATIONAL MODE - Describes the typical office the day after a major
- sporting event.
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- CRT - A movie about a little alien who forgets his telephone number and
- must write home.
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- CURSOR - An expert in four-letter words.
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- DEBUG - The act of placing shoe leather against a small creeping
- creature.
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- DOWNTIME - Coffee breaks, lunch or Friday mentality in the office.
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- DUMP - The EPA's answer to health.
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- ERROR - Something only humans can commit.
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- FIFO - Common name for a dog.
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- GIGO - A movie industry acronym referring to the numerous "Gidget
- Goes..." movies, i.e. GIGO Hawaii, GIGO surfing, etc.
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- HARDWARE - Typically boots, leather and chains. Contrast with software.
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- INTERFACE - The opposite of "Getouttamyface."
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- K - A term used in employment ads to disguise how much they are really
- willing to pay.
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- MEGAHERTZ - A very large car rental company.
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- NETWORK - THe occupation of a fisherman.
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- ON LINE - A statement shouted at tennis judges in response to serves
- being called out.
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- OUTPUT - What people who talk backwards do with their cat.
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- PROGRAM - What commercials try to do to us.
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- RAM - A male sheep.
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- REAL TIME - Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs
- there and then.
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- ROM - A RAM after a delicate operation.
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- SEMI-CONDUCTOR - A person hired to lead an orchestra before he has
- graduated from director's school.
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- SOFTWARE - Typically silk nighties, nylons, garter belts. Contrast with
- hardware.
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- TERMINAL - What most people have to be before consenting to see a
- doctor.
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- TRANSISTOR - A sibling, opposite of transbrother.
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- VACUUM TUBE - A derogatory term. See "BUBBLE MEMORY."