Spam has long since ceased to be just canned spiced meat, but is more familiar to most as a flood of unsolicited advertising emails. An American woman actually found a message in her mailbox that brought her luck.
One of the nice things about the new era is being able to get treasures from television history on the screen in just a few steps. Click, click, it runs out in front of you, episode 25 of the series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, first aired on December 15, 1970. A rather special sketch, hanging by threads, a man and a woman are lowered from the ceiling into a snack bar setting, the remaining guests: Vikings, the fur jackets, wear blond long hair wigs and helmets. The couple unsuspectingly want to know what’s to eat here, and the waitress, played by a male comedian, rattles off the menu, “There’s eggs with “Spam”, meaning canned spiced pork, bacon with “Spam”, ” Spam” with… To shorten the plot a bit: At some point the Viking horde roars: “Spam, Spam, Spam, lovely Spam, wonderful Spam, lovely Spam…” They simply spam the others, a state of affairs that today everyone knows, and who actually – Attention: Fun Fact! – is supposed to come from this skit.
Because spam has long since ceased to be just canned food, but describes the flood of unwanted emails with subject lines such as “Confidential Business Proposal” or “Impotence? We have a remedy”, which in the best case are filtered and, exactly: end up in the spam folder. The American Laura Spears, 55, recently looked at this in search of an e-mail that she believed had been overlooked. She also skimmed one of the Michigan Lottery. You are one of the winners! Ah yes, all right. Although: hadn’t she just bought a lottery ticket there? She is now three million dollars (2.7 million euros) richer. lucky.
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