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Golden Spam Cans to Promote Python Musical
Eibwen writes "For the upcoming release of Monty Python's Spamalot, Hormel foods is giving the first 100 customers who purchase a ticket a golden can of honey grail spam."
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this is pretty interesting, Hormel embracing the Python language and its role in combating unsolicited commercial email!
what? oh, nevermind then...
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Not only will we being seeing these cans for years on Ebay, the contents will still be 'edible'.
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Why is this in the IT section?
Do you get a lesser, silver can?
here it is, the...
...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
The Monty Python Spam Sketch
From the second series of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
Transcribed 9/17/87 from "Monty Python's Previous Record" by Jonathan Partington (JRP1@PHX.CAM.AC.UK)
Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings with horned helmets on. A man and his wife enter.
Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: (to Waitress) Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spa hrefam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: (starting to chant) Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress:
Vikings: (singing) Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress:
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want any spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: That's got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam (crescendo through next few lines)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: (shrieks) I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: (singing) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: (singing elaborately in RealAudio) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot!
God is my Palm Pilot.
Then thou must count to 100. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be 100. 101 shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count 99, excepting that thou then proceedeth to 100. 103 is right out. Once the number 100, being the number of the counting...
...and that's all there is to it.
But just before we award you this can, the old man from Scene 24 has a few questions...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
In this day of over-sensitivity, political correctness, and people/corporations sueing at every possible interval, it's great to see the makers of the dreaded Spam yuck it up with laughter, turning a positive light on the fact that they are the butt of many jokes. In fact, they are probably laughing all the way to the bank ...
-- (Score:i , Imaginary)
Like that, the people at Hormel understand that all of the Spam humor isn't REALLY directed at them, so why not have a little fun with it, doncha' know?
What is the difference between a small revolutionary change and a large evolutionary change?
I love spam...I'm gonna have Spam spam spam spam eggs spam spam spam bacon and spam!
Dan
Easy Home Improvements
I'm more worried about fresh fruit. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me!
I dreamed that the U.S. government was going to outlaw online gaming in an effort to tank the computer industry... Score: -2 -1 Modifier "offtopic" -1 Modifier "retarded" Yesssss....
"I like you, but I wouldn't want to see you working with subatomic particles."
spamplz@comcast.net The interesting thing is that the spammers will actually drop my email from their lists in a couple of days. Apparently, they purge their lists of emails that contain the word 'spam' under the (generally correct) presumption that these are junk accounts. So, if tradition holds, I'll get some spam for the next few days and in a week it will taper off to nothing.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
that assumes it was edible to begin with
Not too many American companyies do.
I remeber hearing on NPR a while back (Gulf War I?) where someone was writing a book to companies with joke letters and collecting the PR responses, and Hormel was asked why they named their company after the Straits of Hormuz, and the reply was pure Python-isc.
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I think Cmdr Taco saw the words "spam" and "python" in the title and decided this must be IT related.
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
...to the super-secret Hormel Spam Factory where you will meat Sammy Hamm, the inventor genius responsible for spam. You will also be able to swim in the pork river that runs through the factory, and meat the Athero-sclerosos, those diminutive factory workers that make it all happen at Hormel. And maybe even get to chew the beta version of Hormel's Sweet and Sour Pork-flavored bubble gum if you dare*
*Beta versions may cause curly-tail syndrome in certain individuals.
Really, instead of the squared-off pig logo, this is one of the few times the old SPAM can logo would have been correct.
And I too congratulate Hormel for their attitude on this - they really have taken the appropriation of their trademark pretty damn well.
Most companies would have hired kneecappers to hunt down the Python troop for what they've done.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Someone wrote an entire musical in python? Not sure what junk email has to do with it though. Guess I should have RTFA.
Literally.
Ever been to a meat-packing plant?
Instant vegetarian...
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One year they sues to protect their meaty name and the next year they endorse it by giving out golden cans.
there really is a lot to make fun of :)
I know more than you drink.
I can see people buying it for the amusement value... but would they actually EAT it?
Google for
"between our quests" "seek incest"
I firat encountered this mistranscription in DEC's internal Notes conferences in 1989. Thankfully, idiots across the world have kept copies.
The bad news: Pursuant to the binding contract language on the back of the ticket, you actually have to eat it!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
I wonder if this means we get to meet the Willy Wonka of the spam world, and get a life time supply of Spam!
If you have a job and can't take the day off to go and get tickets.
I don't care about your karma, I don't care about what's hip. --Weird Al
That is probably the doing of your ISP who is filtering out repeat offenders.
But let's not forget that spam is anything but a value-neutral product. Sure, it doesn't look or taste like there's any real meat in there, but there is. And if you're going to eat the stuff, you ought to know how meat is produced.
It's always bothered me how few people in the tech community are clued into the cruelties associated with factory farming. Hormel is not a company that deserves anyone's praise, and it certainly doesn't deserve free ads on Slashdot.
I'm generally "Interesting," "Insightful," and even "Funny" here. What the hell happens to me at parties?
I have the email plz@comcast.net and I get all your junk after they remove spam from your address!
Finally, a chance for my girlfriend to show me how much she cares!
the contents will still be 'edible'
I don't think so Tim.
Each winner will receive not just one can of spam, but 100 a day, for the rest of their life, delivered to their front door.
We interviewed one lucky winner, Mr. Smith. He said he'd never heard of this promotion and hadn't even bought a ticket for the musical. "Please just stop sending me this stuff, I can't even get in my house anymore!", he pleaded.
Hormel, in a statement, replied, "Although Mr. Smith did not actually buy a ticket, he did purchase a can of spam in 1972, thus establishing a business relationship with us. If he no longer wishes to receive his prize winnings, he may send us a letter at '123 Unsubscribe Avenue, Springfield, The World, The Universe'"
I wonder what Hormel is going to put in those cans? Sure, they could just put in some processed meat, but they don't really have to. In todays "collectors edition Ebay oooh that's gonna be worth a lot of money someday" society, none of those cans is ever going to be opened.
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!
Vegans are whackjobs. BUT, they -do- taste like CHIKKEN!
Minnesota is also the home of 3M and the Post-It Note.
Terry Gilliam is Minnesotan, which I think explains the SPAM / vikings / Python connection.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Spam free for months.......well, maybe not anymore
They're going to be selling the things in supermarkets too. So it's not like it'll be uber-rare or anything.
Here's the script of the origional Spam sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus:
The Spam Sketch
I believe it was out of this sketch that spam came to mean something there was plenty of, but you didn't want...
Spencer Ogden
I saw Monty Ruby's Spamalot the other day and, let me tell you, it was far superior to Monty Python's Spamalot. Don't believe those people who think that they are nearly identical musicals; I find the ruby version to be SOOO much more elegant.
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What is *it*?
So which makes me a bigger geek:
A) seeing the word "spam" and thinking both Monty Python and useless e-mail
B) seeing the word "python" and thinking both Monty and the language of the same name
or
C) Thinking of all of these at the same time, seeing how it would all work out in one big musical, and thinking "now THAT would be cool!"
I think people downplay Minnesota... they shouldn't. North Dakota it ain't.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
My wife & I bought tickets for the first preview performance of Spamalot on 14 February. Yep, we're going to see it for Valentine's Day. I'm not expecting perfection from the first preview, but hey -- Tim Curry? David Hyde Pierce? Woo-effin'-hoo!
...small single engine, aluminum-skinned general aviation airplane, like a Cessna 150/152/172, Piper Cherokee, Beech Musketeer, etc.
I've heard the screams of the vegetables.....