Spam

Definition: Spam

Spam

Noun

1. (trademark) a tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.

Date "Spam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references)

"Spam" is a common misspelling or typo for: seamy, slum, spar, spun.

Domain	Definition
Computing	Spam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1. To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data. See also buffer overflow, overrun screw, smash the stack. 2. To cause a newsgroup to be flooded with irrelevant or inappropriate messages. You can spam a newsgroup with as little as one well- (or ill-) planned message (e.g. asking "What do you think of abortion?" on soc.women). This is often done with cross-posting (e.g. any message which is cross-posted to alt.rush-limbaugh and alt.politics.homosexuality will almost inevitably spam both groups). This overlaps with troll behavior; the latter more specific term has become more common. 3. To send many identical or nearly-identical messages separately to a large number of Usenet newsgroups. This is more specifically called `ECP', Excessive Cross-Posting. This is one sure way to infuriate nearly everyone on the Net. See also velveeta and jello. 4. To bombard a newsgroup with multiple copies of a message. This is more specifically called `EMP', Excessive Multi-Posting. 5. To mass-mail unrequested identical or nearly-identical email messages, particularly those containing advertising. Especially used when the mail addresses have been culled from network traffic or databases without the consent of the recipients. Synonyms include UCE, UBE. 6. Any large, annoying, quantity of output. For instance, someone on IRC who walks away from their screen and comes back to find 200 lines of text might say "Oh no, spam". The later definitions have become much more prevalent as the Internet has opened up to non-techies, and to most people senses 3 4 and 5 are now primary. All three behaviors are considered abuse of the net, and are almost universally grounds for termination of the originator's email account or network connection. In these senses the term `spam' has gone mainstream, though without its original sense or folkloric freight - there is apparently a widespread myth among lusers that "spamming" is what happens when you dump cans of Spam into a revolving fan. Hormel, the makers of Spam, have published a surprisingly enlightened position statement (http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm) on the Internet usage. Source: Jargon File.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

(This article is about the canned meat, see Spam for alternate meanings)

SPAM is a canned meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation company that has entered into folklore. SPAM luncheon meat is also used as an artistic medium in SPAM carving contests.

The labeled ingredients on the original SPAM are chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite.

A Hormel official once stated that the original source of the name SPAM was "Shoulder of Pork And haM". Other explanations of the origin of the term include "SPiced hAM", "Spiced Pork And haM", "Specially Processed Army Meat", and "SPAre hAM." The current official expansion is the acronym "Specially Processed Assorted Meat" because the SPAM Lite variety contains both pork and chicken meat.

According to Hormel's trademark guidelines, you should spell SPAM with all capital letters and treat the mark as an adjective, following it with a more generic descriptor, for example "SPAM luncheon meat".

A little known religion called Spammism worships the meat. It may just be an Internet joke, though.

Not everyone likes SPAM cold, which is how you would eat any other luncheon meat. Fried SPAM is popular amongst many people.

Also of interest is a small local festival in Austin, MN, USA where Hormel corporate HQ is located. The event, known as SPAM Jam is a carnival type celebration which coincides with local fourth of July festivities, featuring parades and fireworks which often relate to the popular luncheon meat.

SPAM was one of the few meats excluded from the British food rationing that began in World War II and continued for a number of years after the war and the British grew heartily tired of it. The British comedy troupe Monty Python used this as the context for their Spam sketch.

SPAM is not to be confused with unsolicited emails, see spamming.

External Links

The official SPAM web site
The SPAM trademark versus spamming
Hormel's trademark guidelines

Spam
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Spam may mean:
- Unwanted email and other unwanted large amounts of communication over the Internet; see spamming
- SPAM, a brand of canned meat
- A fanzine published in the mid-1990s in Houghton, Michigan. There are also a number of other unrelated fanzines and magazines with the same name. See Spam magazine
- A character from the Tolkien parody Bored of the Rings
- A well known Monty Python sketch from which the email variety of spam derives its name, see Spam (Monty Python)
Spam (Monty Python)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Spam is a popular Monty Python sketch that takes place at a cafe in which almost every menu item includes SPAM (a variety of tinned pork). A customer attempts, without much success, to get a breakfast without Spam. Eventually, a group of Vikings at the cafe drown out all conversation by chanting more and more loudly the word "Spam".
The sketch was the final sketch of the 25th show of Monty Pythons Flying Circus, and was first aired December 15, 1970.
Spam was one of the few meats excluded from the British food rationing that began in World War II and continued for a number of years after the war and the British grew heartily tired of it, hence the sketch.
The phenomenon, some years later, of marketers drowning out discourse by flooding Usenet newsgroups and individuals' email addresses with junk advertising messages was named spamming in honour of this sketch.

External link
Full text of the Spam sketch

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
Spam	English	Spiced ham	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and spam a lot. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail ; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) You know, I once built a castle out of Spam. (That Darn Cat; writing credit: Gordon Gordon; Mildred Gordon) Spam in a can! (The Right Stuff; writing credit: Philip Kaufman; Tom Wolfe) See, that's the difference between a great investigator like me, and a piece of spam like you. (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane; writing credit: Rex Weiner; James Cappe)
Song Titles	Spam (performing artist: Monty Python) Spam (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Hawaii's Spam Cookbook (reference) I'm a Spam Fan: America's Best-Loved Foods (reference) Marketing with E mail: A Spam Free Guide to Increasing Sales, Building Loyalty, and Increasing Awareness (reference) Stopping Spam (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Spam [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Spam" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.77% of the time. "Spam" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.77%	60	43,597
Noun (proper)	3.23%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	62	N/A

Expression using "Spam": spam bait. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Spam": spam-can.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "Spam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		löncshús (luncheon meat), fűszeres disznóhús sonkával. (various references)

Pig Latin		amspay

Russian		консервированный колбасный фарш. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Spam": spammed, spammer, spammers, spamming, spams. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Spam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espgan, Isapm, Psabm, Psam, sapm, Spaan, spamm, spamn, Spano. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Spam" (pronounced spa"m)
3	-p a" m	Pam.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: amps, maps, pams, samp.
	Words within the letters "a-m-p-s"
	-1 letter: amp, asp, map, mas, pam, pas, sap, spa.
	-2 letters: am, as, ma, pa.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-p-s"
	+1 letter: camps, damps, gamps, lamps, palms, pimas, plasm, prams, psalm, pumas, ramps, samps, scamp, spams, spasm, stamp, swamp, tamps, vamps.
	+2 letters: abamps, ampuls, campos, campus, champs, clamps, cramps, gramps, lampas, limpas, maples, milpas, mishap, pampas, passim, plasma, plasms, praams, primas, psalms, remaps, sampan, sample, scampi, scamps, spasms, stamps, swamps, swampy, tramps, wampus.
	+3 letters: amperes, amplest, ampules, aplombs, armpits, baptism, campers, compass, copalms, dampens, dampers, dampest, dampish, decamps, empales, encamps, gazumps, grampus, hampers, impacts, impairs, impalas, impales, imparks, imparts, impasse, impaste, impasto, impawns, impresa, lampads, lampers, lipomas, madcaps, magilps, magpies, makeups, mappers, markups, maypops, metepas, mishaps, mispage, mispart, misplan, misplay, mobcaps, mudcaps, myopias, napalms, oompahs, pablums, pajamas, palmers, palmist, pampers, panamas, paramos, pastime, paynims, phasmid, pianism, pitmans, plasmas, plasmic, plasmid, plasmin, plasmon, pneumas, pomaces, pomades, postman, preamps, prearms, prosoma, psalmed, psalmic, psammon, pyemias, pyjamas, restamp, revamps, sampans, sampled, sampler, samples, scamped, scamper, shampoo, shipman, shopman, smashup, spammed, spammer, stamped, stamper, sunlamp, swamped, swamper, tampans, tampers, tampons, topmast, tympans, vampers, vampish, wampish, wampums, warmups.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
spam	6,688	free spam filter	143
anti spam	1,155	messenger spam	137
spam filter	1,037	spam assassin	118
spam blocker	628	spam control	113
spam killer	600	outlook express spam	111
stop spam	552	spam free	104
anti spam software	352	free spam software	94
spam software	290	outlook spam	89
spam blockers	258	free spam killer	88
spam inspector	254	blocking spam	82
block spam	253	outlook spam filter	81
spam email	214	reporting spam	75
i hate spam	195	spam buster	74
remedy spam	193	spam filtering	74
report spam	190	stop spam mail	68
spam mail	188	spam fighter	67
free spam blocker	181	free anti spam software	66
spam stopper	180	spam list	64
spam protection	176	spam assasin	64
spam guard	144	spam black list	61
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spam

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