Monty Python is the reason we call junk e-mail 'spam'
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Monty Python is the reason we call junk e-mail 'spam'
The evidence shows that the use of the word "spam" when referring to junk e-mail could have come from a Monty Python sketch.
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🎭 Interesting fact: Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969) was built around the idea that comedy did not need structure, punchlines, or even logical endings. Sketches often stopped abruptly, shifted into animation, or dissolved into something completely unrelated, which challenged everything audiences expected from television comedy at the time. This unconventional style was partly enabled by the BBC’s confusion, as executives frequently admitted they did not fully understand the scripts but trust
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🎭 Interesting fact: Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969) was built around the idea that comedy did not need structure, punchlines, or even logical endings. Sketches often stopped abruptly, shifted into animation, or dissolved into something completely unrelated, which challenged everything audiences expected from television comedy at the time. This unconventional style was partly enabled by the BBC’s confusion, as executives frequently admitted they did not fully understand the scripts but trust
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