SPAM was originally intended to grease the axles of heavy mobile artillery, and when it was discovered to be edible under dire circumstances, was dubbed Some Pickled Anonymous Meat, which of course the army felt they had to make into an acronym.
The 'Lies Upon Lies' Game
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Little known fact: axle grease is one of Colonel Sanders eleven secret herbs and spices.
The Spamish do not like electricity, they use horses with carriages, and they love making a bunch of babies.
The use of Spam only became practical after its inventor bragged about it so much that people told him to "Can it!"
"Yes we can" said an American President - formerly working in the Cannery Row.
Before that, he was a short-order cook, but when one short order took too long, he said a discouraging word and had to leave his home on the range.
Then, in order to earn money for his living, he invented the Slow Food Movement.
The Slow Food Movement was slow to take off until the invention of the leisure suit by Polly Ester.
Polly Ester started her career in a Wet T-Shirt Competition.
When Polly gained some fame, she wanted the contest MCs to be a little classier, but thought a tuxedo was going too far, and a business suit didn't suit her monkey business, so she invented something more laid back.
And that inspired a Danish pop group naming themselves this way - Laid Back.
Laid Back became the epitome of easy listening when they recorded all their albums while lying in bed.
and their manager made them all rich with an Otis Elevator background music contract
Some years later Mr. Otis Elevator changed his name into Mr. Otis Redding.
And he recorded Sitting On the Dock by the Boat.
The reason for the song title was that he couldn't spell "yacht."
A yacht was in his mind indeed, but since he pronounced it yard, he did not succeed.
Little-Known Fact:
Interestingly, “yacht” was originally a unit of seafaring distance—as in a “yachtical mile”. But sailors, being sailors, were known to the women on shore as “naughty boys”—which was shortened to “naughties” and, later, “naughts”. When the “naughts” were caught with married women by their husbands, they ran back to their ships to escape capture and possible death. This distance—what a typical drunken sailor caught with his pants down could run before passing out—became known as a “naughtical mile”.
Interestingly, “yacht” was originally a unit of seafaring distance—as in a “yachtical mile”. But sailors, being sailors, were known to the women on shore as “naughty boys”—which was shortened to “naughties” and, later, “naughts”. When the “naughts” were caught with married women by their husbands, they ran back to their ships to escape capture and possible death. This distance—what a typical drunken sailor caught with his pants down could run before passing out—became known as a “naughtical mile”.
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"Yacht" was originally spelled "yaht," but Noah Webster changed it in his dictionary and then told his daughter so she could win a spelling bee.