It's quite nice while the junk mail type isn't makes no sense to me!
Bazilla
What's the matter you, hey! Gotta no respect, hey! Whattya think ya do? hey! Why you look-a so sad, hey! Itsa not so bad It'sa nice-a place Ahhh Shadduppa ya face!
Why is it called spam?
Nov 18, 2001, 4:44 PM ET29 posts by 22 posters
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It's derived from the Monty Python TV "Spam" sketch, set in a restaurant where Spam is the only item on the menu. It ends with the "Spam Song," which is just "Spam, spam, spam, spam" over and over.
I'm pretty sure it's an acronym. Can't remember what the S and P stand for , but A and M are for Advertisement and Mail.
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"Andrewjmilner" wrote in message news:[email]...
where
just
In article , "Soul2Ignite" wrote:
Naw, it's a Monty Python reference to the Spam Skit.
Stupid Phreakin'?
Luke Hoffmann [email]
MP3.com is being sued by teen pop band Hanson, who is claiming copyright infringement due to digital downloading of their music...
... The suit was thrown out due to lack of evidence...
Drunk and full of pie, Luke Hoffmann wrote:
Stinky Poopy Advertising Mail (but, how lowbrow of me...)
It's an acronym for SPiced hAM. "Luke Hoffmann" wrote in message news:[email]...
for
Specially Prepared Assorted Meats?
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:52:32 GMT, Gene Poole wrote:
No, Spam is the Cadillac of processed meat products: It's just ham and pork shoulder (and a lot of fat). If you want snouts and entrails, you have to go to the head cheese or potted meat food product.
Alan Hamilton wrote:
We must also remember that spam is no longer just spiced pork.
There's also my favorite, turkey SPAM. Plus, I believe the correct term is potted meat, not processed.
Greg Bair
In article , Greg Bair wrote:
Nope, potted meat is.... something... different from Spam, or Treet (fake Spam), or other Hormel canned meat products.
Potted meat is... well. We don't know. We don't want to know. Frankly its a product we can do without.
David Z Houston TX
Boy oh boy. Read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." Midway through sophomore year of high school, no one wanted to eat hot dogs ever again...
How does cow tongue and pork tripe sound... Yumm...!
Luke Hoffmann [email]
MP3.com is being sued by teen pop band Hanson, who is claiming copyright infringement due to digital downloading of their music...
... The suit was thrown out due to lack of evidence...
On 24 Nov 2001, Luke Hoffmann wrote:
My favourite's always been tripe. *Especially* when it's served as a special treat courtesy of our friends at the Meat Council.
/ Kristian
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Obviously my crazy friend has never heard of the food chain.
Gene Poole wrote in news:[email]:
When I grow up I want to go to Bovine University.
fake spam...... f-a-k-e s-p-a-m...........
FAKE SPAM!?
but how...if spam is real.... two opposites....
Luke Hoffmann wrote in message news:[email]...
(fake
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"David" wrote in message news:[email]...
What about Prem and Klik?
Dr Music P.S. Parking was ample.
Drunk and full of pie, Dr Music wrote:
And everyone's favorite... scrapple?
mmmmmm....snouts.
That must be an urban lenn...urban legend, I mean, then. Because I've heard a couple times that SPAM was derivative of specially prepared assorted meats.
if I wasn't so lazy I'd go look it up on snopes2.com or something.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 06:52:44 GMT, Gene Poole wrote:
No, really. That's not to say you can't get the rest of the pig if you want -- like I said, head cheese and potted meat food product can contain snouts, hearts, etc. If glands are more your thing, try Mexican chorizo sausage.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Alan Hamilton stated this considered view. Waking from my doze, I hastily scrawled -
Mmmm... Snouts!
"Alan Hamilton" wrote in message news:1NFK7.966$[email]...
"Mostly circus animals, Some filler."
Dr Music P.S. Parking was ample.
In the 1890's Chicago hog butchers came up with a way of utilizing discarded parts. The foodstuff was to be marketed as "Savory Pig Anuses in Mucus", but newspapers objected to the term "pig".
=v= More to the point, during the skit a group of vikings would starting singing the song loudly, intruding on and drowning out a conversation that was taking place. It is the intrusive nature of bulk/ad messages that inspired the name "spam."
=v= If an acronym was coined, it was long after the term "spam" was put to use, especially if the M is for "mail."
=v= Spam was originally something that happened to newsgroups.
It was years before email was afflicted with it, and in fact
people would snicker at "newbies" who referred to unsolicited
bulk/ad email as spam. Eventually unsolicted bulk/ad email
became the biggest problem by far, and now everyone
uses the word to mean that. .-.
<_Jym_> / /
|\/\/\/| / /Spiced + Ham = SPAM
Jym Dyer wrote in message news:...
"J.Re*" wrote in message news:[email]...
And Spam spelled backwards is Maps.
Dwayne wrote:
That definitely says something right there...
mmmmmmmmmm....maps.