The word "spam" meaning to flood a place with unwanted messages comes from a carnist joke made by #MontyPython in which the capitalist product Spam is mythologized as an archetypal unwanted worthless repetition. A murder victims body reduced to a literal throw-away joke depicting their mangled corpse as nothing more than a nuisance. The company that killed them "Spam company" is remembered more readily than the victim
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We made elderberry wine with the berries from around the vineyard.
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It's taking all the willpower I have to not start quoting Monty Python's cheese shop sketch right now...
Nope! Can't do it!
"Ohhh!!! ... The cat's eaten it!
... Has he...?
She, sir.' 🧀
"Not much of a cheese shop is it, really.
Finest in the district, sir!"🧀
@span sashag They’d be like Sir Robin’s minstrels. #MontyPython
#Listening to the 1969 album
Tadpoles by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band;
Tadpoles by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band;
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCIVQjOLLGl4yfixXwAlgo0tn0F7Bheb4
There's a track that starts with a posh-sounding gentlemen trying to interview passers-by about shirts. It's not surprising that these folks shared personnel with Monty Python, in the form of Neil Innes.