There's just too fucking much of it, history. There's some pretty important bits, like the Holocaust and how Colombus was a shithead, and occasionally the world's countries get super pissed at each other and have a war about it. But the esoterica of potted meat food product, 70s British comedy troupes, and their collective effect on internet lexicography is a bit much for me. Hell, your "eternal September" wording is probably another such invocation I haven't the memory to recognize.
Back in the old Usenet days, access was mostly limited to dedicated professionals and hobbyists, who had over time developed a certain “netiquette”.
Every September, though, new students got Usenet access, unwittingly disturbing the peace and sowing chaos until they learned the proper way to speak and behave themselves.
Around late 1993 and early 1994, though, ISPs started providing Usenet access to their customers, flooding the network with an unending flow of inexperienced users most of which would never learn the proper ways. An eternal September, as it were. And thus the Internet was ruined.
True story ; In Australia Hormel were ordered to withdraw an advertising campaign featuring the song "Spam - it's real spiced ham !" because Spam is not ham and doesn't contain any spices...
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leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 86 pts · 142d
And now for something completely different, here's the sketch in question.
cornshark@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 142d
If she doesn't want spam why doesn't she order Egg and bacon, or egg, sausage, and bacon, which are the first two menu items?
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 142d
That’s where it fell apart for you? 🤪
grue@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 142d
Because it wouldn't be as funny that way.
mwproductions@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 142d
Don't cause a fuss.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 142d
Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 142d
Cuz that's not got much spam in it.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 141d
That's part of the joke.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 142d
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 143d
LOVELY SPAM... WONDERFUL SPAAAAAM
jestho@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 143d
I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!
wjrii@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 142d
Well, spam, egg, sausage, and spam – that’s not got much spam in it.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 142d
Why can't she have eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage?
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 142d
Can't have eggs, bacon, Spam and sauage without tbe Spam - it wouldn't be eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage, then!
BorgDrone@feddit.nl · 18 pts · 143d
Bloody vikings!
who@feddit.org · 32 pts · 142d
And the Python programming language was named after that same troupe. :)
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 142d
A stain on the monty python reputation, no doubt
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
I mean it's not like it's Cobol. Or Perl! Could you imagine?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 142d
It's fun to see how people are re-learning history. It's like an eternal September.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 142d
There's just too fucking much of it, history. There's some pretty important bits, like the Holocaust and how Colombus was a shithead, and occasionally the world's countries get super pissed at each other and have a war about it. But the esoterica of potted meat food product, 70s British comedy troupes, and their collective effect on internet lexicography is a bit much for me. Hell, your "eternal September" wording is probably another such invocation I haven't the memory to recognize.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 142d
Back in the old Usenet days, access was mostly limited to dedicated professionals and hobbyists, who had over time developed a certain “netiquette”.
Every September, though, new students got Usenet access, unwittingly disturbing the peace and sowing chaos until they learned the proper way to speak and behave themselves.
Around late 1993 and early 1994, though, ISPs started providing Usenet access to their customers, flooding the network with an unending flow of inexperienced users most of which would never learn the proper ways. An eternal September, as it were. And thus the Internet was ruined.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 142d
there keeps on being more. Oh man I wonder what history classes will be like in a hundred years if they exist.
lime@feddit.nu · 20 pts · 142d
my favourite bit about this sketch is that they start out listing two dishes with no spam in them, which everyone promptly then forgets.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 142d
I always noticed that too...
noxypaws@pawb.social · 1 pts · 142d
how has that never occurred to me?? holy shit
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 142d
True story ; In Australia Hormel were ordered to withdraw an advertising campaign featuring the song "Spam - it's real spiced ham !" because Spam is not ham and doesn't contain any spices...
trk@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 142d
Wait, what is Spam then? I thought that was the whole thing... Sp(iced H)am.
I'm going to be disgusted by the answer, aren't I?
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 142d
Pork, ham, and salt, mostly. So it is spiced ham if you consider salt a spice (it’s not).
iMastari@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 142d
When I was young I asked my dad what Spam was made of. He told me “Chicken lips and assholes”. My dad is a funny guy.
islandcoda42@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 142d
Hormel uses only the finest assholes available!
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 142d
That is funny, but not true. They use the most diseased assholes.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 142d
your dad can't tell the difference between spam and hot dogs.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 142d
...Is the implication here that Americans consider salt a spice, or pork a spice?
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 142d
What's the difference between pork and ham? Aren't they both just pig corpse?
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 142d
Ham is a specific cut, and is cured. Pork is any pig meat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 142d
Legally you need quotation marks, "pork," and "ham," mostly.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 142d
No, it is real pork and real ham. It’s mostly the shoulder cuts, but there’s still real ham in there.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 142d
Yeah, I thought it was "Shoulder of Pork and Ham"
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 142d
Spam is an abomination created to short our armed forces of real vittles in World War II, fucking MarArthur that son of a bitch he's in hell now.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 143d
And here I thought it just meant stupid, pointless, annoying message...
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 142d
Backforming the acronym like whoever named the "Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division"
Yours is better, although it doesn't have the beautiful music of SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM!
Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 142d
Idk. I heard it decades ago in icq.
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 142d
don't forget repeated!
Krzd@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 142d
Here's a great video about it
N0MAD@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 142d
Great watch before I make Spam fried rice for dinner. Thank you.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 142d
its also a "ham" preserved sodium nitrate juice.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 142d
holy trump. I never made the specific connection.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 142d
Well.. sortof
quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 142d
Pretty dark to make jokes about such murder and torture
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
Ummm.... Huh?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 143d
Senseless Pointless Addendum Message.