after the Python sketch'SPAM is a meat product that is widely available in the US and other
places (see www.spam.com for details). Monty Python was a comedy
troupe from the UK that wrote and produced TV programs, plays and movies.
One of their most famous skits involved a group of vikings that visit
a restaurant and start ordering all dishes with spam (the meat product).
They also start singing 'Spam, Spam, Spam' loudly and over and over again.
They make all other conversation impossible and are very irritating.
This probably does not sound too funny when I describe it this way but
it is actually quite entertaining.
The initial waves of spam (junk mail) was in newsgroups. This large
amount of unwanted crap made normal discussion impossible which reminded
people of the Monty Python skit about SPAM. Thus everyone started calling
these junk newsgroup mailings as spam.
When the spammers started sending their junk via email, it did not have
the same effect but since it was the same people sending the same junk,
everyone called it 'spam'. In the early days of junk email, some folks
insisted on calling it UCE (unsolicited commercial email) or
UBE (unsolicited bulk email). But spam is much easier to say and most
people were familiar with the term. So, all junk postings - on email or
on newsgroups or on web-based message boards - is now called spam.'
thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 11:04,
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spam, spam, eggs, spam, spam, spam, chips, spam, ham and spam.and pie
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wingphil,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 11:06,
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yup.SPAM SPAM EGGS CHIPS SPAM AND SPAM.
SPAM EGGS SPAM SPAM SPAM CHIPS AND SPAM
etc.
(SPAM EGGS SPAM SPAM SPAM CHIPS AND SPAM
etc.
itwontbeeasy,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 11:07,
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the spam websiteis almost too good to be true. Check out the spam turkey!
(,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 11:13,
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well doneyou have enlightened me.
here you are:
don't spend it all at once.
congratulations to you.
(,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 11:14,
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here you are:
don't spend it all at once.
congratulations to you.
i knowthank you.
and remember, giving you brits pounds, is three times as expensive for me as it is for you.
what's 3 times nothing again?
(,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 11:21,
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and remember, giving you brits pounds, is three times as expensive for me as it is for you.
what's 3 times nothing again?
check your emailmr topgun6061
oops! this is munkt0n by the way..
(oops! this is munkt0n by the way..
jiva nearly always up for a game of scrabble,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 11:22,
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