Spam, Not that kind of spam... the food kind.
If you clicked on this than you are bored or think I'm trolling again which i am not...
(This got reported... If this gets close i want you to know I spent over 2 hours making this post so enjoy)
Spam Collection Image
This is Spam Formly known as The Ultimate Mystery Meat (Title of Thread).

For most of you who are reading this you probably so bored out of your mind you decided to click on this thread; either that or your a mod and you think this is a troll topic which it isn't. I will give 2 differing versions of the spam history, one which is thorough and one which is just for those who are bored and want to know the most interesting things. (Anything in collapse box is the thorough history)

Spam has an alter ego which is a popular internet term which refers to a useless comment, video, or post (usually an advertisement as opposed to troll) But spam was originated with the popular "Monty python". The story goes that the first email that was sent was an advertisement and the person who received said email had the TV on in the background which was playing the "Monty Python too much spam skit" and thus spam was coined as the useless junk on the internet (not trolling which is spam which was said for lulz).
(Too much spam skit video)

Like all trivial things turned into a collection there are those things in said collections people only care about. Such as rarest? strangest? and even the down right weird. (Although some might not find it all that wierd)

\\Rarest
Although this is technically not an actual spam tin can it is possibly the rarest spam can in existence as such it was near impossible to find an image of it.
(Image Link)
Sorry the image was too large to post.

\\Strangest
Spam had many different things released along side their meats; some examples include dice games, mug, pen, puzzle, cookbook, haiku poem book and many other strange things i don't wish to list however the link at the bottom of the post has many other links if your interested enough.


\\Weirdest
Even though the following isn't technically a product it was weird enough to top the list. Hormel girls which were a troupe of 60 women who traveled around the country advertising spam(anyone get the pun here)... although not much information is said about them however i did find two sites that explained them further. (Edit : they were Gi's or at least heavily involved in the war(Site didn't give much info))

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2007/11/13/59/spam_and_legs_hormel_girls_danced_sang_sold
http://www.spam.com/about/history/default.aspx (Move the circle in the bar at the bottom to the right)



http://www.spam-uk.com/aboutus/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28food%29
http://www.alaska.net/~royce/spam/ (For those who are interested this is where i got most of my information from)

Post has been edited 6 time(s), last time on Aug 7 2011, 1:11 am by Tempz.

This thread would have been truly epic if the actual title was simply "Spam"

Good post though, very informative.

Reported for spam.

But srs wat. Wat....

I don't get how spam brought forth the internet term spam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29#History

@Az
Well i wanted the thread to have some mystery to it but good suggestion... And so it shall be called "Spam".

@Tikels I posted the too much spam skit and that inspired the term spam... whats not to get ;O

Edit : Tuxlar posted a link about it so nvm

Sorry, didn't quote the error.

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Spam had many different things released along side there meats;

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@Poison

Ty for finding the error... fix'd

Also I'm heatstroke'd and sick again

There are many, many more errors.

@Tikels

Now what'd you expect from a tempz post