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[Ryan Verner]

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On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 04:34 PM, Bret Busby wrote:

> 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.

Haha.. yes, I remember the exact sketch you're describing.  Classic 
Monty Python.

> 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.

Hah - amusing how relevant it is, even though the implied meaning these 
days didn't mean anything back then.

>   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>   A Trilogy In Four Parts",

Ah, a HHG2G fan :)

A big hi to everybody, btw - only subscribed up to this list a few days 
ago.  Already looks interesting.

R

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