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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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But just before we award you this can, the old man from Scene 24 has a few questions...
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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 ...
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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?
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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.
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I think Cmdr Taco saw the words "spam" and "python" in the title and decided this must be IT related.
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...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.
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The sketch was originally performed by Peter Sellers, some time in the 1950s, and was on the "Best of Sellers" Album released in about 1961.
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Just about anything from Monty Python was done earlier, and better, on the Goon Show with Sellers, Spike Mulligan, etc.
The catch is: the Goon Show was a radio program.
"What's the frequency Kenneth?"
Well, it's not on 'Best of Sellers', because I'm looking at it right now. It's also not on any of the discs re-issued in 'A Celebration of Sellers'.
Honestly, it doesn't really sound like something Sellers would do, and the Pythons performed original material to my knowledge.
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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'"
In Peter Sellers's "Balham, Gateway to the South", he goes to a cafe where everything is off. Maybe the OP is thinking of that.
It's worth noting that the point of the Spam sketch is that it's merely a pastiche of British cafes, where everything comes with chips. "Sausage, egg, chips", "Sausage, bacon, egg, chips", etc.
well, not everything.... the chips, chips, baked beans, and chips doesn't have much chips in it.
Nothing harms a cause more than overstating it.
To pretend that "just about anything" in Python was unoriginal is no more convincing than saying it appeared from nowhere.
Not a single sketch, character or even line in Python is directly derived from The Goon Show. In fact the two shows are very different in format and comic style, character-led stories vs. sketches etc. Both are vaguely absurdist, which was novel at the time, and no doubt Spike Milligan had some influence on the Pythons in other ways, but that's about as close as it gets.
You talk about cruelty to animals, but what about those veggies? You rip apart that poor defenseless piece of lettuce, and eat it while it's still alive! The local produce stand is a haven for plant torture. Ripped from the earth and left to slowly die of starvation, with their only release being crushed to death between some vegans molars.
You sick bastard.