BIT:            A word used to describe computers, as in "Our son'scomputer cost quite a bit."
BOOT:           What your friends give you because you spend too much timebragging about your computer skills.
BUG:            What your eyes do after you stare at the tiny greencomputer screen for more than 15 minutes.Also: what computer magazine companies do to you afterthey get your name on their mailing list.
CHIPS:          The fattening, non-nutritional food computer users eat toavoid having to leave their keyboards for meals.
COPY:           What you have to do during school tests because you spendtoo much time at the computer and not enough studying.
CURSOR:         What you turn into when you can't get your computer toperform, as in "You $#% computer!"
DISK:           What goes out in your back after bending over a computerkeyboard for seven hours.
DUMP:           The place all your former hobbies wind up soon after youget a new computer.
ERROR:          What you made the first time you walked into a computershowroom to "just look."

EXPANSION UNIT: The new room you have to build on to your home to house

your computer and all its peripherals.

FILE:           What your secretary can now do to her nails six and a halfhours a day, now that the computer does her day's work in30 minutes.
FLOPPY:         The condition of a constant computer user's stomach dueto lack of exercise and a steady diet of junk food(see chips).
HARDWARE:       Tools, such as lawn mowers, rakes and other heavyequipment you haven't laid a finger on since gettingyour computer.
IBM:            The kind of missile your family members and friends wouldlike to drop on your computer so you'll pay attention tothem again.
MENU:           What you'll never see again after buying a computerbecause you'll be too poor to eat in a restaurant.
MONITOR:        Often thought to be a word associated with computers,this word actually refers to those obnoxious kids whoalways want to see your hall pass at school.
PROGRAMS:       Those things you used to look at on your television beforeyou hooked your computer up to it.
RETURN:         What lots of people do with their computers after onlya week and a half.
TERMINAL:       A place where you can find buses, trains and really gooddeals on hot computers.
WINDOW:         What you heave the computer out of after you accidentallyerase a program that took you three days to set up.