Posted on 11/13/2002 6:35:41 PM PST by SierraWasp
This is a test of the institutional memory of FReeperdom.
My query is first about the tasty canned meat, but also to learn if the current common slang regarding undesirable e-mail is in anyway related, or if that term has it's own independent basis in origination.
No. It comes from OWK's proclivity to post "I like cheese" on inane vanity threads.
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 spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: (starting to chant) Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: (singing) Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor au Crevettes 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.
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) Spam, spam, spam, spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spaaam! Lovely spam! Wonderful spam. Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spaaam! Spam, spam, spam, spaaaaam!
It was, in fact, _the_ staple of WWII for much of the world, and hence the Hawaian fascination with it.
I'll tell you what is gross, though - sitting in a foxhole in 1981, and noticing that the "use-by" date on one's half-eaten lunch is 1946.
I also read somewhere that during the difficult days of food shortages during the war, some British wag remarked that if spiced ham was SPAM, then that must mean that Dried Eggs were DREGS.
Bravo!!! Mrs. Wasp is the one that got me goin on this. She was tellin me that it was "Specially Prepared American Meat." Tonite I asked her where she got her info from and she said she seen a PBS program on WW2 and that's what they said it was.
All you FReepers have really got this Wasp's head a buzzin with alla this here information.
smapd - SMTP proxy (server portion) (SMTP =Simple Mail Tranfer Protocol)
The Firewall Toolkit smapd proxy is an application level proxy that provides configurable access control and logging mechanisms. The smap client proxy together with the smapd server proxy, which run on the firewall, transfer mail between internal and external mail servers, using rules you supply.
All packets, and therefore all application requests go to the firewall. On the firewall, the smap and smapd proxy software relay information from one side of the firewall to the other. They prevent versions of sendmail on the exter- nal network from talking with versions of sendmail on the internal network, and vice versa. No IP packets pass from one side of the firewall to the other. All data is passed at the application level.
The server portion of the SMTP proxy (smapd) generally runs as a daemon (invoked from /etc/rc.local). Periodically, based on a configurable value (by default every 60 seconds), the server daemon (smapd) wakes up and checks to see if there is any new mail that the SMTP client proxy (smap) has placed in the spool directory. The smapd daemon checks the headers of the mail for formatting problems. It then calls the configured message transfer agent (usually sendmail in delivery mode) for final delivery.
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