Where did the term SPAM come from?
My auntie asked me this last night and I was kind of embarrassed that I didn't know.
Here is the link to the Wikipedia post about it.
And here is the Monty Python sketch mentioned on Wikipedia
Personally, I like the false etymologies from the Wikipedia post:
There are three popular false etymologies of the word "spam". The first, promulgated by early spammers Canter & Siegel, is that "spamming" is what happens when one dumps a can of SPAM luncheon meat into a fan blade. The second is the backronym "Shit Posing As Mail" The third is similar, using "Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages" Another false etymology is the Esperanto interpretation: The term spamo (with the o-ending designating nouns) makes sense as "senpete alsendita mesaĝo", which means "a message sent to someone without request.
