Is spam an acronym? If so, what does it stand for?
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Nope. Spam is not an acronym. It actually comes from the famous Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy skit by the same name. The truest beginnings of the term are in question, but one history suggests that back in the old IRC (internet relay chat) days, users who wanted to annoy others' conversations would continuously dump the words to the spam song/skit into the channel. So, essentially, spam was seen as an unwanted annoyance. :) It was used for quite a few years before, in several contexts until its definition came to be honed down to the most common usage, today, as 'unwanted advertisements, or junk mail'. Here's a link to info, as well as the famous skit. http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
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If you're talking about the food, it is a shortened version of Shoulder of Park and Ham. the email term, dunno.
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Shoulder Pork And Meat It is ham meat...and there you have it SPAM
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SPAM was originally the combination of two words: Spiced and Ham hence s-pam. But was changed from Spiced Ham to SPAM to create a catchy phrase for people to remember it by. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)
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the product from Hormel SPAM is from SPiced hAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food) Spam in the internet sense comes the acronym: Short Programers Are Mean.
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Just as an aside to this one : The phrase "Sweet FA" does not actually mean Sweet F"%* all but is actually Sweet Fanny Adams. Fanny Adams was a girl who was killed in Alton Hamshire England by a butcher who chopped her up. This occurred at the same time as Spam was introduced to the navy for their prolonged trips. When they were given a tin of spam for their dinner and asked what it was the reply was "Sweet FA" Fanny Adams' grave can be seen in the cemetary at Alton
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Shoulder of pork and ham, oh you mean electronic spam.
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