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Originally Posted by robsteve
Reminds me of the Monty Python skit where the restaurant specialized in Spam. How did it go "spam eggs spamm spamm and spamm or eggs spamm spamm and spamm"?
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The Monty Python sketch you refer to is actually the source of the Internet term "spam". In the sketch, vikings start to sing "spam spam, wonderful spam" increasing in volume and drowning out the dialogue of the other characters (until told to be quiet). On the internet, unsolicited commercial email (or "spam") drowns out the email you want to receive, and is increasing in volume all the time.
So, it has nothing specifically to do with Hormel's luncheon meat
wikipedia (as always) has the full story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28Monty_Python%29
See also
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spam