06-16-2003, 07:43 AM | #1 |
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"Spam" as in an inappropiate post.
Was it a byproduct of the famous Monty Python sketch? Something a random person made up which proceeded to spread through the internet like spam possesed? Why do I want to know? I'm settling a bet [ 06-16-2003, 07:45 AM: Message edited by: Sigmar ] |
06-16-2003, 07:46 AM | #2 |
Jack Burton
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I thought it was spam the...food...which tastes horrible and has no substance
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06-16-2003, 07:51 AM | #3 |
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But how did it make its way into the internet? Also do they still sell spam and if so WHY? Did people who purchased it during World War 2 enjoy it so much that they demanded that it should remain on the market
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06-16-2003, 07:55 AM | #4 |
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Perhaps Cloudy was eating spam when she started posting? Here's a link: http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
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06-16-2003, 07:56 AM | #5 |
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Maybe somebody thought it was good for kids? *Shrugs* [img]graemlins/spam2.gif[/img] . Yes, they still sell it. At least, they do at my local shop and if they don't sell it world wide I wanna know since when
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06-16-2003, 08:42 AM | #6 |
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I read somewhere that they sells lots in Hawaii, so it's popular there.
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06-16-2003, 08:45 AM | #7 |
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lol...
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06-16-2003, 08:59 AM | #8 |
Jack Burton
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I've always wondered why on the can they show it garnished with things like pineapple, or parsley...
I mean seriously, if you can afford pineapple and parsley WTF are you doing putting it on spam? |
06-16-2003, 09:13 AM | #9 | |
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Quote:
How do like 'em apples Tim the Badger! Perhaps I should garnish them with spam [img]tongue.gif[/img] |
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06-16-2003, 09:28 AM | #10 |
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I think y'all are ignoring the most common use of the word "spam" on the internet: to refer to unsolicited e-mail. This is highly annoying, so I guess that its meaning spread to annoying one-word or smilie posts. It's use for off-topic posts or essentially meaningless posts is pretty much limited to this site, I guess, since it is not used at others like SF-Fandom, where spamming in our sense forced them to close "The Green Dragon," which was similar to the Cafe, but much, much spammier.
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