Since it's very important that we all be well-informed about spam... 

Histories of indigestible, electronic kind of spam:

http://keithlynch.net/spamline.html
http://www.easyfind-in-1.com/anti-spam/history_of_spam.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,44111,00.html 

History of the digestible (kind of) SPAM, 
right from the horse's mouth.
[I can't believe he said that...]

http://www.hormel.com/templates/corporate.asp?articleid=27&zoneid=27 

On or about 2/26/04 1:13 PM, VRic ever-so-carefully typed:

>Oh, and now something completely different ...
>Here's the script.
>
>--------------------
>*** Spam
>*** from The Final Rip Off
>*** transcribed from tape 3/30/88  Daniel Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Man: Morning.
>Waitress: Morning.
>M: Well, what you got?
>W: 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, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam; spam, spam,
>    spam, egg and spam; (vikings start singing in background) spam, spam,
>    spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.

And for those who've never heard it, and would like 
to get a glimmering of what the skit sounded like, 
we have these two lovely sound files.  Remembering 
that the parts of the waitress and the wife were 
played by men in drag, here's a bit of the 
description of the menu:
http://www.ironworks.com/comedy/python/spam.wav 

And the SPAM song that the Vikings(?) were singing:
http://www.mailmsg.com/sounds/spam-song.wav

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