Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTIL spam (as refering to online unwanted communication) came from a Monty Python sketch.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1381arrow-down13
arrow-up1378arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 days agoAnd here I thought it just meant stupid, pointless, annoying message…
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days 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!
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!