" Unsolicited
non-commercial e-mail is also spam.
SPAM (in capital letters) has been a trademark of the Hormel Foods
Corporation since 1937 (acronym of "Shoulder Pork and hAM"/"SPiced
hAM"). It is a kind of fluffy canned luncheon meat and it gained fame
(or notoriety) during the second world war when it was served to
American soldiers throughout the world. The Hormel Foods Corporation
failed in its legal battle to block the use of the word "spam".
No one knows how the term originated.
Yourdictionary.com suggests that it is derived from a Monty Python
skit in their Flying Circus television show in 1970. In it a group of
Vikings harass two patrons in a restaurant with incessant chants of
"spam, spam, spam..."
Spam may be an acronym of Simultaneously Posted Advertising Message.
It was the derogatory phrase used to describe the April 1994 marketing
campaign of the Canter and Siegel law firm. They posted an offer to
every news group thus provoking an outcry and giving rise to - spam.
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Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition is notorious for its prosecution and bestial
torture of the Jews in Spain and its territories.
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