Can someone explain the "spam song"?

[BeachBum]

I'm having flashbacks to middle school where people told jokes that were so over my head. :p I mean I get that when people spam, the song gets posted, and that the word spam is used a LOT :D But I keep feeling like there is something more I am supposed to "get". If there is nothing more to "get" I would still be interested in the "why" behind the song.

:D :D

[VictoriaL]

Monty Python, c. mid-1970's (I think)

Enough said, correct?!?!? :D

[badunnin]

Ah, it's a Monty Python and the Flying Circus sketch! The man and the wife are lowered down into a cafe, where there is a waitress, a cook, and vikings. Everything on the menu has spam in it, but the wife doesn't like spam. The vikings periodically break into song. :) (Bizarre, I know, but that's Monty Python for you!)

[lindrusso]

As a side note, the term "SPAM" for emails and spamming bulletin boards like this is said to have originated from the Monty Python spam sketch. There is another theory as to the origin of the term "SPAM" as it applies to the internet (relating it to the canned Spam), but I'm sticking with the Monty Python version. :D

[lsdesign]

And, the broadway opening of "Spamelot" with be happening soon. Stay tuned and keep eating Spam for breakfast as I did while growing up.

[colleency]

Someone wrote a webpage about the origins of Spam, but I can't verify the truthfullness.

http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html