[Linux-aus] linux-aus

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Ryan Verner wrote:

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> On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
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> > Uh, is that the one that starts with the question, "What's for
> > breakfast?", and ends up with lots of vikings singing?
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> Haha... no idea, but it sure sounds interesting...
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In a Monty Python sketch, a married couple staying at a British B & B, 
go to the bar or whatever, and ask what is available for breakfast. The 
answer starts, something like "Sausages and spam. Bacon and spam. Eggs 
and spam. Eggs, bacon and spam. Eggs, spam and spam.", and ends up with 
"spam, spam and spam". Seated at the tables, are about 40-50 vikings, 
who, as all of this is going on, start softly singing "spam, spam, spam, 
spam...spam, spam, spam, spam...", and it gradually gets louder, untill 
all that can be heard, is a loud singing... "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, 
SPAM...SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM...". It is better seen, than described.

It is a bit like the messages that have come through the list, from time 
to time, with repeated spam being the dominant factor, from time to 
time.

Hence, the calls that have occurred, for the elimination of spam from 
the list, which calls have met with hostile, derogatory, opposition, 
from some of the louder members of the list.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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