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Antenna coupling - Insect's foreplay
Banana plug - Fruit marketing board advert
Base drive - Primitive motivation
Bass - A type of fish
Block diagram - Football strategy plan
Bonding wire - Cheap wedding ring
Bridge rectifier - Facial plastic surgeon
Bubble gate - Entrance to soap factory
Burn in - Pyromaniac's convention
Local Bus - Public Transport
Carrier - Transportation company
Character density - Number of odd people at the office
Circuit board - Racing track committee
Circuit breaker - New lap record
Core dump - Orchard compost heap
Coupling methods - Positions for intercourse
Crosstalk - Angry words
Current mode logic - Contemporary fad in mathematics
Current status - Available bank balance
Cursor - Tourette syndrome sufferer
Degraded minute - TV program interrupted by an advert
Delayed trigger - Loser in a gun fight
Discrete device - Little white lie
Discriminator - Bigot
Doping techniques - Alcoholism made easy
Electromotive force - Electric railway engine
Emphasis network - CNN
Equalizer - HiFi component
Floppy disk - Tired UFO
Four-bit latch - Cheap lock
Four terminal network - Small railway company
Full adder - Type of snake
Group delay - Long queue
Group translation - Interpretation for foreigners
Heatshrink - Tropical psychiatrist
Hex code - Witchcraft standards
High pass filter - Strong cigarette
High to low transition - Income tax deduction from pay rise
Jump instruction - Order to paratrooper
Joystick - Sexual aid
Kermit - Frog Muppet
Keyboard - Musical instrument
Line driver - Road hog
Log amplifier - Tree fertiliser
Low pass - Indecent proposal
Macintosh - Rain coat
Megabyte - Glutton
Megahertz - Large car rental company
Memory management - Brain washing
Microchips - Diet
Microwave dish - Temperature resistant china
Minimum loss pad - Low rental apartment
Mixer - Kitchen helper
Mob system - Laws as set down by the Mafia
Monostable - For one horse only
Motherboard - Nun's convention
Multiplexer - Situation causing much concern
Negative feedback - Vomit
Network - Fisherman's occupation
OMOS - Underwater vegetation
Operating system - Surgeons' standards
OR gate - Turn-off before toll road
Path loss - Heavy petrol consumption
Pilot detector - Airport security
Plan position indicator - Kama Sutra
Potential difference - Fight between jock and nerd
Power connection - Friend in high places
Power plant - Nutritional vegetable
Primary cell - Pre-sentence jail
Pulse delay - Cardiac arrest
RAM card - Sheep identification tag
Push-pull control - Wresting match referee
Rectifier - Ombudsman
Saw-tooth generator - Dentist
Side band - Support act at a concert
Star connected - Well-known in Hollywood
Strip line - Queue outside night club
Sync - Place to wash your hands
Sync period - Boat warranty time
Thermal noise - Rattling old heater
Time division - Day planner
Transient suppression - Anti-vagrancy law
Trimpot - Weight reduction plan
Truth table - Torture rack
Tuner - (see *Bass)
Two-button mouse - Laboratory rat
Unix - Cousin of Asterix
Waveguide - Coastal plumbing
Windows - Holes in the wall you can see through
White noise - Kugel
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