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Mike Rollins <mjr@conan.ids.net> wrote:
>
>On 21 Nov 1995, Sean Brennan wrote:
>> controversial than some turkey hooker message. By the way what exactly 
>> does SPAM stand for?
>
>        The term "Spam" allegedly refers to the way that a certain 
>canned meat product allegedly looks, when it is thrown against a 
>wall.  This is an experiment which I have not personally conducted.  
>
>        In popular Internet usage, the term "Spam" refers to any 
>message that is cross-posted to numerous newsgroups, or one which 
>is not relevant to those newsgroups where it is posted.  It also 
>sometimes refers to any post of a commercial nature.  
>
>        As a couple of previous posts in this thread have already 
>mentioned, there is also a great song about Spam by Monty Python.  

In fact, having just finished an article on the etymology of spam in the net 
context, as best as my research has been able to determine, the Month Python Spam 
skit is the origin of the net usage of spam. Apparently, the premise was, if people 
kept doing this to USENET, all the good stuff would be gone and everywhere you 
looked there would be nothing but the horrifyingly ubiquitous...SPAM!!!!!

My one gripe was that Hormel wouldn't issue an official statement about this new use 
of the term  <sigh>

-- 
"Chunka-chunka-chunka. Bleep. Chunka-chunka-chunka. Whir. Bleep.
 Chunka-chunka-chunka. 'Sadness despair anger.' Chunka-chunka-chunka.
 Bleep."

 - entire review of Circle of Dust printed in Creative Loafing

In article <498s19$l15@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>,
Mike Flannery  <soccer01@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm looking for a Chicago women. (rest of personal snipped)

Then why are you posting to regional newsgroups in the Philadelphia, 
Atlanta, San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, New England, 
Nevada, New York City, Pittsburgh, and Sacramento areas?

Not to mention that at _least_ one of the newsgroups doesn't welcome 
personal ads, period.  (Its FAQ has been mailed.)

(Folks - please read the newsgroups header, and set followups if you 
can when it is as massively crossposted as this.  Thanks.)

Follows reset to chi.personals.

C(sheesh)LB
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Charlotte L. Blackmer                   clb@rahul.net
Berkeley Farm and Pancake Palace (under construction)

In article <498s19$l15@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> soccer01@ix.netcom.com (Mike Flannery ) writes:

>Hi,
>I'm looking for a Chicago women. I'm 6'1, 180, brown hair/eyes. I like
>sports,movies,parties,go out and stay in, read, love to laugh. If you
>are interested, write to me


Wow, Mike! 

Out of all the newsgroups you posted to looking for a Chicago woman,
not a single one was actually a CHICAGO group! Or even an Illinois
group for that matter! Not even a St. Louis group! Or ANY group
pertaining to a midwestern city!

Congratulations, you win the coveted atl.singles Golden Nothing
award!
<golf clap>

Sheesh,
Robbie

In <499auc$c2p@mark.ucdavis.edu>, sznoreen@chip.ucdavis.edu (Noreen Mastascusa) writes:
>Mike Flannery (soccer01@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: Hi,
>: I'm looking for a Chicago women. I'm 6'1, 180, brown hair/eyes. I like
>: sports,movies,parties,go out and stay in, read, love to laugh. If you
>: are interested, write to me
>
>Well, I'm sure that there are many women from Chicago living in the San 
>Francisco Bay Area, but now you've probably pissed them all off by 
>posting a personal ad to ba.singles.
>
>--
>-Noreen Mastascusa, aka namastascusa@ucdavis.edu
>Where was I?  I forgot the point that I was making.
>I said if I was smart that I would save up for a piece of string
>and a rock to wind the string around.  -tmbg
Noreen, if you'll notice, this dude posted to every newsgroup on the globe EXCEPT
Chicago singles. Go Figure!!

In <robbie.45.03C72993@mindspring.com> robbie@mindspring.com (Robbie
Honerkamp) writes: 
>
>In article <498s19$l15@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> soccer01@ix.netcom.com
(Mike Flannery ) writes:
>
>>Hi,
>>I'm looking for a Chicago women. I'm 6'1, 180, brown hair/eyes. I
like
>>sports,movies,parties,go out and stay in, read, love to laugh. If you
>>are interested, write to me
>
>
>Wow, Mike! 
>
>Out of all the newsgroups you posted to looking for a Chicago woman,
>not a single one was actually a CHICAGO group! Or even an Illinois
>group for that matter! Not even a St. Louis group! Or ANY group
>pertaining to a midwestern city!
>
>Congratulations, you win the coveted atl.singles Golden Nothing
>award!
><golf clap>
>
>Sheesh,
>Robbie
>


Wow Robbie, you and I must be tied for the "Nothing Better To Do With
Your Time Award": you win the category for hassleling a guy trying to
meet girls, and I for wasting my time writing to a stupid bitch like
you. 

Yeah, its my real name.

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