There is a Shoe comic strip I haven’t been able to track down on the Internet. In it Skyler, the nephew of Perfessor Cosmo Fishhawk, asks his uncle what a word processor does. The Perfessor says something like:

You know what a food processor does to food…

Now… word processors are better at handling words then food processors are at handling food. At least when the person using the word processor knows what the deal is.