- who@feddit.orgEnglish20 hours
And the Python programming language was named after that same troupe. :)
- leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 day
And now for something completely different, here’s the sketch in question.
- cornshark@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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?
- ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldEnglish19 hours
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…
19 hoursWait, 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?
- teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 hours
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.
- hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish16 hours
Pork, ham, and salt, mostly. So it is spiced ham if you consider salt a spice (it’s not).
What’s the difference between pork and ham? Aren’t they both just pig corpse?
- iMastari@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
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.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish3 hours
your dad can’t tell the difference between spam and hot dogs.
- teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 hours
That is funny, but not true. They use the most diseased assholes.
- Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish14 hours
…Is the implication here that Americans consider salt a spice, or pork a spice?
- hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish6 hours
No, it is real pork and real ham. It’s mostly the shoulder cuts, but there’s still real ham in there.
- corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish23 hours
It’s fun to see how people are re-learning history. It’s like an eternal September.
- 19 hours
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.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish3 hours
there keeps on being more. Oh man I wonder what history classes will be like in a hundred years if they exist.
- leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish12 hours
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.
- pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish19 hours
Can’t have eggs, bacon, Spam and sauage without tbe Spam - it wouldn’t be eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage, then!
my favourite bit about this sketch is that they start out listing two dishes with no spam in them, which everyone promptly then forgets.
- N0MAD@sh.itjust.worksEnglish21 hours
Great watch before I make Spam fried rice for dinner. Thank you.
- Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish22 hours
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!
