Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL spam (as refering to online unwanted communication) came from a Monty Python sketch.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1360arrow-down12
arrow-up1358arrow-down1external-linkTIL spam (as refering to online unwanted communication) came from a Monty Python sketch.en.wikipedia.orgQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square37linkfedilink
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoAnd here I thought it just meant stupid, pointless, annoying message…
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoBackforming 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!
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agodon’t forget repeated!
And here I thought it just meant stupid, pointless, annoying message…
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!
Idk. I heard it decades ago in icq.
don’t forget repeated!