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The Colour Green
Diana
Do-It-Yourself Love Poem
Letter To A Grown-Up Child
Money Cannot Buy...
Mr. Right
Rabbit Stew
Rainbows at Night
The Runner
Short Poems
The Sun and the Moon
Sunset Over the Ocean
What Good Is War?

Word Fun

All-American Word Find
What's Your Phobia?
Oxymorons
Australian-American Translation
Do-It-Yourself Award
Net Jargon
Test Your Vocabulary

Other Features

My Nephew's webpages
In Memoriam
My Favourite Websites
My Favourite Quotes
Aussie Songs

Net Jargon

Remember when the doctor would come to your house, but you
had to go out for pizza. Here is what now-familiar Internet terms
meant in those days:

Website
Where a spider makes its home.

Mouse pad
Where a mouse makes its home.

Email
Mail that makes you scream when you open it, e.g. big bills (EEEE!)

40 bytes per second
Speed of a piranha's mouth.

Megabyte
What a shark might take out of you.

World Wide Web
A spider's plan to rid the world of bugs.

Server
A wheeled cart or tray for serving food or beverages.

Download
Output of a feather factory.


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