D'on ve la paraula spam?
És un aliment de carn de porc amb espècies que va enllaunat. Hi ha una escena del grup còmic anglès Monty Python on la cambrera d'un restaurant descriu els plats d'un menú a una parella. El que passa és que tots els plats duen spam. Per exemple: salsitxes amb spam, spam amb ous, spam i spam. L'spam acaba per tapar tota la resta com passa amb el correu electrònic.
Sketch del spam (Monty Python's Flying Circus - 1969)
Man:
You sit here, dear.
Wife:
All right.
Man:
(to Waitress)
Morning!
Waitress:
Morning!
Man:
Well, what've you got?
Waitress:
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg
bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and
spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon
spam tomato and spam;
Vikings:
(starting to chant)
Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress:
...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked
beans spam spam spam...
Vikings:
(singing)
Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress:
...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a
Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle
pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife:
Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress:
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in
it.
Wife:
I don't want any spam!
Man:
Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife:
That's got spam in it!
Man:
Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings:
Spam spam spam spam (crescendo through
next few lines)
Wife:
Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress:
Urgghh!
Wife:
What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings:
Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress:
Shut up!
Vikings:
Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress:
Shut up! (Vikings stop)
Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the
spam.
Wife:
(shrieks)
I don't like spam!
Man:
Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm
having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam
and spam!
Vikings:
(singing)
Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress:
Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man:
Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but
it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings:
Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am
spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!