Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL spam (as refering to online unwanted communication) came from a Monty Python sketch.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square45linkfedilink
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoAnd here I thought it just meant stupid, pointless, annoying message…
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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…
don’t forget repeated!
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.