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umm how did spam get a name like spam because the original spam is a meat right so why did spam get a name like spam and not somthing else like ummmmmmmmmm ummmmmmm lamb <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
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Spam is actually an acronym: Spontaneus Posting Anomaly Malfunction <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
"Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid" - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
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and then there's:
[color:"orange"]The original Spam was coined in 1937 by the Hormel corporation as a name for its potted meat product. This brand name is a blend of spiced ham.
From there, the transition from meat product to internet term has a stop with Monty Python's Flying Circus. In 1970, that BBC comedy show aired a sketch that featured a cafe that had a menu that featured items like "egg, bacon, and spam;" "egg, bacon, sausage, and spam;" " spam, bacon, sausage, and spam;" "spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon, and spam;" and finally "lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy, and a fried egg on top and spam." To make matters sillier, the cafe was filled with Vikings who periodically break out into song praising Spam: "Spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ..."
Computer people adopted the term from the Python sketch to mean overrunning a fixed-sized buffer with too much data, in other words the data was like the Spam in the sketch, something excessive and undesirable. With the commercialization of the Internet, the term expanded to include the unwanted commercial messages and that became the primary meaning.
There are two common alternative explanations that are certainly false. The first is that it refers to a quality of the meat product such that when you throw it at a wall, most of it bounces off, but a little sticks--much like commercial spam, most of which is deleted but some is answered. While this is no more silly than the Monty Python explanation, it does not jibe with the original computer sense of overloading a buffer. The second false explanation is that the computer spam is an acronym of some sort. Various phrases are suggested as the source, such as "stupid pointless annoying mail." All are obviously created after the fact. [/color]
(courtesy of wordorigins.org) ...no doubt, more than you ever wanted to know! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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I was joking but that is pretty interesting Rincewind <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
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I know <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />... and I actually liked your version better!
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[color:"orange"] From there, the transition from meat product to internet term has a stop with Monty Python's Flying Circus. In 1970, that BBC comedy show aired a sketch that featured a cafe that had a menu that featured items like "egg, bacon, and spam;" "egg, bacon, sausage, and spam;" " spam, bacon, sausage, and spam;" "spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon, and spam;" and finally "lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy, and a fried egg on top and spam." To make matters sillier, the cafe was filled with Vikings who periodically break out into song praising Spam: "Spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ..."
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I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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how can you not like it, it is so cute
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spam is delicious. sometimes when i smell that potted meat aroma...i just cant tAKE IT...I GOTTA JUST...GOTTA JUST RUB IT ALL OVER MY BODY!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! SPAM ME HORMEL!!! SPAM MMMMEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />
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SPiced hAM
Monthy Pythons's Flying Circus' sketch on spam is hilarious.
It's one of these days...
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About 38 years ago I bought some spam to bring on a trip with me--not knowing what it was. It was awful tasting stuff, and I couldn't force myself to eat it. When I told my mom how bad it was she said, "That's what the soldiers carried along with them as rations in WW 2, and they always hated it."
The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? ~Jeremy Bentham
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some things never change, eh? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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like that big pickel thing that grows in the ground.
woops. this isn't named Spam so you can Spam?
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Spam tastes nasty. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> but we had fun spam carving contests last year. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
guess wh o won?
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errr was it u by any chance?
wow and there was me thinking it was just a random word. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />
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You are all wrong this is SPAM !! The fool hath said there is no God But God was no ones fool so he forgave the fool for being a fool otherwise the thing about everyone is made in God's Image would look ... well foolish <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Never edited by Mea Culpa
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But God was no ones fool so he forgave the fool for being a fool otherwise the thing about everyone is made in God's Image would look ... well foolish <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> True that is Gods grace otherwise we would all be doomed.
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But God condemns good people to Hell for not believeing Him. So that's a slight drawback of His <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
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technically we all deserve to go to hell because we have all sinned but he shows his grace to those who believe in him.
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Well, those are views of inhabitants in a world different from mine. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it. --Dilbert cartoon
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Well, those are views of inhabitants in a world different from mine. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> we shall rename this topic "Another Unbelieavble Plug for Myself" shall we <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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About 38 years ago I bought some spam to bring on a trip with me--not knowing what it was. It was awful tasting stuff, and I couldn't force myself to eat it. When I told my mom how bad it was she said, "That's what the soldiers carried along with them as rations in WW 2, and they always hated it." Could this be what your dear mommy meant... Bully Beef. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
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