Have you ever wondered why junk email is called “spam?”  This bit of nonsense from Monty Python’s Flying Circus is said to be the basis for the use of the term spamming to describe the sending of unsolicited junk email:

“Well there’s egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam; or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate’, brandy and a fried egg on top of spam.”