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| Thread ID: 49726 | 2004-09-28 11:14:00 | What does spam stand for | ApeNz (4220) | Press F1 |
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| 276474 | 2004-09-28 11:14:00 | I was wondering if SPAM standed for anything or is it just some thing that is assoiated with junk email | ApeNz (4220) | ||
| 276475 | 2004-09-28 11:19:00 | [From Spam(probably inspired by a comedy routine on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the word is repeated incessantly).] | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 276476 | 2004-09-28 11:21:00 | The word was coined as the winning entry in a 1937 competition to choose a name for Hormel Foods Corporation's "spiced meat" (now officially known as "SPAM luncheon meat"). Correspondant Bob White claims the modern use of the term predates Monty Python by at least ten years. He cites an editor for the Dallas Times Herald describing Public Relations as "throwing a can of spam into an electric fan just to see if any of it would stick to the unwary passersby." |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 276477 | 2004-09-28 11:23:00 | oh ... so there is a history to the word .. interesting | ApeNz (4220) | ||
| 276478 | 2004-09-28 11:36:00 | Spiced Ham | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 276479 | 2004-09-28 11:40:00 | Tinned meat. ("A determined butcher with a big enough mincer can put almost anything into a sausage." I suppose the same applies to Spam.) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 276480 | 2004-09-28 21:51:00 | SPAM = Specially Prepared (or Pressed) American Meat. Usually processed bits of animals pressed into a can. NB : in the US, "meat" is not "beef" and when presented with the choice, go for the beef. |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 276481 | 2004-09-29 03:38:00 | It's what the Americans sent us in food parcels during the war, along with peanut butter, dried egg and other goodies :). The tins had an American flag or red white and blue stripes on them from memory. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 276482 | 2004-09-29 03:43:00 | Didn't the yanks kill a handfull of Afganies recently when dropping food parcels?, and i do remember reports that the parcells were painted quite similar to shells they were bombarding the country with,some hungry sods were blown to pieces digging up what they thought to be a can of spam.... | metla (154) | ||
| 276483 | 2004-09-29 04:17:00 | > Didn't the yanks kill a handfull of Afganies recently > when dropping food parcels?, and i do remember > reports that the parcells were painted quite similar > to shells they were bombarding the country with,some > hungry sods were blown to pieces digging up what they > thought to be a can of spam.... Yes.. the cluster bombs are Yellow, the same colour as the food canisters they where dropping. Conspiracy theorists had a field day with that one |
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