You might not be a savvy RVer if you think the following definitions are accurate:
By Gail Ault, F106024
March 2003
Backup: Happens when you forget to empty the holding tank
Byte: What could happen if loose animals at the campground are surprised
CD: What you used to pay for your new motorhome
Chip: Munchies to eat at the campfire
Compress: Something you do to garbage
Computer: Keeps the savvy RVer in touch
Crash: What could happen when the copilot gives inaccurate directions
Dot matrix: Danny Matrix’s wife
Enter: Northern slang for the Southern “C’mon in, y’all”
Floppy disk: A loose hubcap
Hard drive: Any day trip longer than 250 miles
Keyboard: Place with hooks where you hang your assortment of keys
Laptop: Where the grandchildren like to cuddle up
Log on: Tossing another log on the campfire
Mainframe: The steel frame your motorhome body is bolted to
Megahertz: When one of the basement doors drops on your head
Memory: Something you lose with age
Microchip: What’s left in the munchie bag
Modem: What the grounds crew at the campground did with the blades of grass
Monitor: Rear camera necessary for backing up that big coach
Mouse: A critter that finds holes the factory promised didn’t exist
Net: Something a woman puts on her head to preserve her hairdo
Port: Red wine
Prompt: What the wait at a one-dump station is not
RAM: Cousin of a goat
Screen: Should come with the windows
Software: Tissues, toilet paper, and paper plates
Virus: The flu
Web: A spider’s home and a motorhome wife’s nemesis
Windows: Something you want plenty of even though you hate to clean them