{"id":14110,"date":"2023-03-21T02:57:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/the-story-of-spam-volume-3-1-2-december-20-1991-by-raphael-dareau\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T02:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:57:45","slug":"the-story-of-spam-volume-3-1-2-december-20-1991-by-raphael-dareau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/the-story-of-spam-volume-3-1-2-december-20-1991-by-raphael-dareau\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Of Spam Volume 3 1\/2 (December 20, 1991) By Raphael Dareau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?<br \/>\n3                       Compliments Of         12-20-1991   3<br \/>\n3                                                           3<br \/>\n3                       =PURGATORY BBS                      3<br \/>\n3                       (207)-866-2399                      3<br \/>\n3                                                           3<br \/>\n3            SysOps:  Thanatos and Raphael Dareau           3<br \/>\n@DDDDDDDDDDDDDBDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDBDDDDDDDDDDDDY<br \/>\n              3                                3<br \/>\n              3The Story Of Spam &#8211; Volume 3 1\/23<br \/>\n              3Much Ado About Nothing In Orono!3<br \/>\n              @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY<\/p>\n<p>                      BRIEF INTRODUCTION<\/p>\n<p>     The last &#8220;Story Of Spam&#8221; was the longest that ever<br \/>\nexisted and many people complained about its 9 page length,<br \/>\ncommenting that the text seemed to be constant blabber &#8230; as<br \/>\nif it was a term paper that needed to be an EXACT length and<br \/>\na person wanted to find a way to extend some words.  That is<br \/>\nwhy this text is coming into existence &#8212; to keep things<br \/>\nconcise, clear, and less wordy.  Plus, there was some<br \/>\ninconsistencies that were noticed in the story, which will be<br \/>\ncorrected in the following text.<\/p>\n<p>                  ANOTHER BRIEF INTRODUCTION<\/p>\n<p>     This is the Story Of Spam.  The title is not fitting<br \/>\nhowever in this text as it had been in others.  In order to<br \/>\nkeep the reader disinterested in the text, some other things<br \/>\nhave been added, hence the name &#8220;Much Ado About Nothing In<br \/>\nOrono.&#8221;  However, this text will be kept from becoming a<br \/>\nconstant blabber and if you do not like this new text, then<br \/>\nplease feel obligated to stick your head in a bucket of<br \/>\npiranha fish.  Also, some of the names of the people in this<br \/>\ntext have NOT been changed, and they will probably will never<br \/>\nbe able to get another decent job.  Also, this will be the<br \/>\nlast story of Spam for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>IIIII n the beginning, there was NovaNET.  However, due to a<br \/>\n  I   tragic blimp accident, much of the history of NovaNET<br \/>\n  I   was lost.  However, much is known about this computer<br \/>\n  I   system after something called The Matt Thomas Era,<br \/>\nIIIII which is an era that NovaNET signons were flung around<br \/>\n      like pennies in a auditorium that contains McKernan.<br \/>\nHowever, at the start of recorded history, things began to<br \/>\nchange quickly.  The entire universe was in shock as the<br \/>\nDebmeister and The Guardian Of The Lips swooped down on<br \/>\nNovaNETland and began to viciously attack people like crazed<br \/>\npiranhas.  And those who did survive the attack that caused<br \/>\nthe eventual collapse of the Matt Thomas era was subjected to<br \/>\nNovaNET poverty and could do little or nothing.  The Tower Of<br \/>\nBabbling was destroyed, which destroyed Term-Talk instantly.<br \/>\nTalkomatic was damaged as well, but it was not as hit as<br \/>\nhard.  According to legend, which was written in two large<br \/>\nstone tablets that were carried down from Mt. Urbana,<br \/>\ntroutman\/dialup\/nova was the only one that was not effected,<br \/>\nas his aurora was the best deflector for anything that the<br \/>\nLips and the Debmeister could dish out.  The stone tablets<br \/>\nturned out to be the Ten Commandments Of NovaNET, which were<br \/>\ngiven to troutman during his visit to Mt. Urbana by the Great<br \/>\nOne after he solved his quest for a Shiva.  This transaction<br \/>\ntruly marked the end of the Matt Thomas era.<\/p>\n<p>                             SPAM<\/p>\n<p>W     W  orking late one night in 1937 in his secret<br \/>\nW     W  laboratory, Jay Hormel had a deadline lurking.  He<br \/>\nW  W  W  worked at the Hormel Meat Company and he had several<br \/>\nWW W WW  thousand extra pounds of pork shoulder that he did<br \/>\n WWWWW   not know what to do with &#8212; and he had to find<br \/>\n         something to do with all the extra meat before it<br \/>\nrotted.  He then began to mix different products into the<br \/>\nmeat and then a big black puff of smoke came up from the<br \/>\nmixture and Jay averted his eyes from the sight.  When he<br \/>\nfinally looked at the final product, he saw a huge cubical<br \/>\npiece of meat.  Carefully, he tasted the product, which<br \/>\ntasted a bit odd, but yet had possibilities.  He then began<br \/>\nto market it as Hormel Luncheon Meat, which was as lame as<br \/>\nthe word &#8220;hip.&#8221;  Because of this lame name, a emergency<br \/>\nmeeting was held and the President Of Hormel offered $100 for<br \/>\na person to come up with a catchy name.  After several<br \/>\nminutes of pondering, Kenneth Daigneau stood up, yelled<br \/>\n&#8220;SPAM&#8221;, and ran down the hallway.  Surprised, yet quick to<br \/>\nadapt, the luncheon meat was dubbed the ever-holy name and<br \/>\nthe meat began to reproduce into its current definition &#8212; A<br \/>\nmeat substance that is consumed at the rate of 3.8 cans per<br \/>\nsecond and is sold in more than 50 countries.  Margaret<br \/>\nThatcher ate it for Christmas dinner in 1943 and Nikita<br \/>\nKhrushchev called it the only thing to keep the Soviet Army<br \/>\nalive.<\/p>\n<p>     Then 50 years later, Spam&#8217;s birthday was celebrated in<br \/>\nMinnesota.  The luncheon meat was featured in many different<br \/>\nways &#8212; a luncheon that featured a &#8220;all you can eat&#8221; Spam<br \/>\nBreakfast for $1.99.  Also, there was Spam Pizza and Spam<br \/>\nsubmarine sandwitches.  There was a Spam eating contest where<br \/>\ncontestants were timed as they ate a 7-ounce can of Spam.<br \/>\nOnly fingers were allowed, no utensils, and the only thing<br \/>\nthat they could drink was a 7 ounce glass of water.  There<br \/>\nwas also a Spam sculpting contest, in which artist could show<br \/>\ntheir favorite medium to work in.  Also, the jamboree<br \/>\nfeatured the Spam recipe contest, with live bands, and<br \/>\nbicycle and foot races.  Also, A Spam King And Queen was<br \/>\nchosen.<\/p>\n<p>     Also, much literature and music was written about the<br \/>\nmeat substance.<\/p>\n<p>                   3001: A SEARCH FOR SPAM<\/p>\n<p>     As I made my way down the tunnel toward my favorite<br \/>\nhangout, I got a pain in my stomach.  I had only felt this<br \/>\nway once before, but that was many years ago.  The doctor<br \/>\ntold me that it was gas, but I knew this was much more than<br \/>\ngas; it was a pain sent to me as a message from the gods.  I<br \/>\nfelt better after a while, so I proceeded to my hangout.<\/p>\n<p>     When I got there, it was empty except for the bartender.<br \/>\nI approached him and ordered one Pepsi and a disk of Spam.<br \/>\nHe looked at me with deep concern and told me the whole<br \/>\ncomplex was out of Spam.  &#8220;How could this be?&#8221; I thought.<br \/>\n&#8220;No Spam.  Can I survive without Spam?&#8221;  I asked the<br \/>\nbartender if there was anything I could do to help find more<br \/>\nSpam.  He told me that a meeting was being held in the town<br \/>\nsquare on the matter, and that everybody was there now.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s when I realized that the pain was a message telling me<br \/>\nthat I was the one that must save us all and find Spam.<\/p>\n<p>     I jumped on my motorized tricycle and headed for the<br \/>\nmeeting.  When I got there, a man was standing on a giant<br \/>\nTide box he had turned into a makeshift stage.  He was<br \/>\nsaying, &#8220;As you all know, in the mid-21st century, we were<br \/>\ndriven underground by global warming.  The only thing we took<br \/>\nwith us was a large supply of Spam, and as most of us have<br \/>\ndiscovered, that supply has run out.  We have other foods to<br \/>\neat, but we have all been eating Spam for so long, we now<br \/>\nhave a physical dependence on it.  Without it, we will go<br \/>\nmad.  Our scientists have already made some digging machines<br \/>\nequipped with Spam radar.  I say we start a search<br \/>\nimmediately for another underground civilization that has the<br \/>\ntechnology to make Spam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     We all agreed and headed for the machines.  Two people<br \/>\nwere assigned to each vehicle.  My partner&#8217;s name was Chris.<br \/>\nHis job was to watch the radar and mine was to drive.  While<br \/>\nmost of the groups started moving outward, I had a hunch that<br \/>\nthe best way to go would be straight down.  Chris thought I<br \/>\nwas crazy, but he wasn&#8217;t driving.  We went straight down.<\/p>\n<p>     After we had driven down for two hours, it became hot,<br \/>\nbut luckily we had air conditioning.  Chris watched the radar<br \/>\nwith an eagle&#8217;s eye and his own eyes too, but there was no<br \/>\nsight of Spam.  We traveled for several more hours.  When my<br \/>\nstomach growled and Chris started to sweat from lack of Spam,<br \/>\nthere was nothing to do but what we did.  I broke the glass<br \/>\npanel labeled EMERGENCY.  I took out a small can of Spam and<br \/>\nshared it with Chris.  Of course, we had other foods in the<br \/>\nmachine to eat, but I didn&#8217;t want anything except for Spam.<br \/>\nWe had to find Spam now.  If we didn&#8217;t find some in less than<br \/>\n24 hours, we would die for sure.  There was no turning back.<\/p>\n<p>     Just when we were about to turn back, Chris told me he<br \/>\nhad a faint Spam signal on the radar.  We celebrated by<br \/>\nlicking the empty Spam can.  The longer we traveled, the<br \/>\nstronger the signal became.  It got real hot.  When Chris<br \/>\ntold me the air conditioner had broken under the strain, I<br \/>\nbarely heard him.  We would be finding Spam soon, and that<br \/>\nwas all that mattered.  I could almost feel that slimy meat<br \/>\nreplica going down my throat.  &#8220;The Spam readings have shot<br \/>\noff the scale.  We should be finding the mother lode any time<br \/>\nnow,&#8221; Chris told me.  Suddenly we broke through a shell into<br \/>\na large chamber.  A great aroma overcame us.  It was Spam!<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;The instruments tell me that huge ball is two things.<br \/>\nOne, it is the very core of the Earth.  Two, it is pure<br \/>\nSpam,&#8221; Chris said in a state of awe.<\/p>\n<p>     At that very moment, a small ball of moldy Spam flew<br \/>\nover my head.  &#8220;Mold &#8212; did you see mold?  I didn&#8217;t know that<br \/>\nstuff ever went bad,&#8221; I said to Chris.  Then I spotted what<br \/>\nhad shot the ball at us.  Two cats were evidently guarding<br \/>\nthe core.  They were shooting catapults at us, but luckily<br \/>\nthey were bad shots.  A closer look made us think that their<br \/>\ncataracts had to do with it than luck, though.  We paid them<br \/>\noff with some catnip, so they let us pass.  We grabbed a big<br \/>\nchunk of Spam and headed back for the complex.<\/p>\n<p>     When we got back, there was a huge celebration in honor<br \/>\nof our Spam discovery.  The crowd began chanting for a<br \/>\nvictory speech, so I gave them one.  &#8220;Yo, Adrienne, I<br \/>\nachieved Spamness.&#8221;  &#8211; By Damon Heitland Of Ada, OK<\/p>\n<p>                The Monty Python Sketch &#8211; SPAM<\/p>\n<p>     Cut to a cafe.  All the customers are Vikings.  Mr. and<br \/>\nMrs. Bun enter &#8212; downwards.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bun:  Morning.<br \/>\nWaitress: Morning.<br \/>\nMr. Bun:  What have you got, then?<br \/>\nWaitress: Well, there&#8217;s egg and bacon; egg, sausage and<br \/>\n          bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg,<br \/>\n          bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and<br \/>\n          spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked<br \/>\n          beans, spam, spam, spam, and spam; or lobster<br \/>\n          thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce<br \/>\n          garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg<br \/>\n          on top and spam.<br \/>\nMrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?<br \/>\nWaitress: Well, there&#8217;s spam, egg, sausage and spam.  That&#8217;s<br \/>\n          not got much spam in it.<br \/>\nMrs. Bun: I don&#8217;t want any spam.<br \/>\nMr. Bun:  Why can&#8217;t she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?<br \/>\nMrs. Bun: That&#8217;s got spam in it!<br \/>\nMr. Bun:  Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.<br \/>\nMrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage<br \/>\n          without the spam?<br \/>\nWaitress: Uuuuuuuggggh!<br \/>\nMrs. Bun: What do you mean uuuuuggggh?!  I don&#8217;t like SPAM!<br \/>\nVikings:  Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam &#8230; spam, spam, spam,<br \/>\n          spam, spam &#8230; lovely spam, wonderful spam &#8230;<br \/>\nWaitress: Shut up.  Shut up!  Shut up!  You can&#8217;t have egg,<br \/>\n          bacon spam, and sausage without the spam.<br \/>\nMrs. Bun: Why not?<br \/>\nWaitress: No, it wouldn&#8217;t be egg, bacon, spam and sausage,<br \/>\n          would it?<br \/>\nMrs. Bun: I don&#8217;t like SPAM!<br \/>\nMr. Bun:  Don&#8217;t make a fuss, dear.  I&#8217;ll have your spam.  I<br \/>\n          love it.  I&#8217;m having spam, spam, spam, spam,<br \/>\n          spam&#8230;<br \/>\nVikings:  Spam, spam, spam, spam &#8230;<br \/>\nMr. Bun:  &#8230; baked beans, spam, spam, and spam.<br \/>\nWaitress: Baked beans are off.<br \/>\nMr. Bun:  Well can I have spam instead?<br \/>\nWaitress: You mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam,<br \/>\nspam, spam and spam?<br \/>\nVikings:  &#8230; spam, spam, spam, spam&#8230;<br \/>\nMr. Bun:  Yes.<br \/>\nWaitress: Arrrrgh!<br \/>\nVikings:  &#8230; lovely spam, wonderful spam &#8230;<br \/>\nWaitress: Shut up!  Shut up!<\/p>\n<p>     A Hungarian enters.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian:Great boobies huneybun, my lower intestine is full<br \/>\n          of spam, egg, spam, bacon, spam, tomato, spam&#8230;<br \/>\nVikings:  Spam, spam, spam, spam&#8230;<br \/>\nWaitress: Shut up!<br \/>\nHungarian:My nipples explode&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>     Cut to a historian.<\/p>\n<p>Historian:Another great viking victory was at the Green<br \/>\n          Midget cafe at Bromley.  Once again the Viking<br \/>\n          strategy was the same.  They sailed from these<br \/>\n          fiords here, assembled at Trondheim and wated for<br \/>\n          the strong north-easterly winds to blow their oaken<br \/>\n          galleys to England whence they sailed on May 23rd.<br \/>\n          Once in Bromley they assembled in the Green Midget<br \/>\n          cafe and spam selecting a spam particular spam item<br \/>\n          from the spam menu would spam, spam, spam, spam,<br \/>\n          spam&#8230;<br \/>\nVikings:  Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam &#8230; lovely<br \/>\n          spam, wonderful spam &#8230; spam, spam, spam, spam,<br \/>\n          spam &#8230; lovely spam, wonderful spam &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. and Mrs. Bun rise into the air.<\/p>\n<p>                         CREDITS ROLL<\/p>\n<p>                 Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus<br \/>\n         was conceived, written and spam performed by<\/p>\n<p>                       Spam Terry Jones<br \/>\n                      Michael Spam Palin<br \/>\n                       John Spam Cleese<br \/>\n                       Graham Spam Spam<br \/>\n                         Spam Chapman<br \/>\n                 Eric Spam egg and Chips Idle<br \/>\n                   Terry Spam Sausage Spam<br \/>\n                       Egg Spam Gilliam<br \/>\n                   Also Appearing On Toast<br \/>\n        The Fred Tomlinson Spam Egg Chips And Singers<br \/>\n            Research Patricia Houlihan and Sausage<br \/>\n          Make-Up Penny Penny Penny and Spam Norton<br \/>\n       Costumes Egg Baked Beans Sausage And Tomato, Oh,<br \/>\n                     And Hazer Pethig Too<br \/>\n          Animations By Terry (Egg On Face) Gilliam<br \/>\n      Film Cameraman James (Spam Sausage Egg And Tomato)<br \/>\n                    Balfour (Not Sundays)<br \/>\n   Film Editor Ray (Fried Slice and Golden Three Delicious<br \/>\n                   Millichope (Spam Extra)<br \/>\n        Sound Chips Sausage Liverwurse, pheasant, spam<br \/>\n              newsagents, chips, and Peter Rose<br \/>\n             Lighting Otis (Spam&#8217;s Off Dear) Eddy<br \/>\n     Designer Robert Robert Robert Robert Berk And Tomato<br \/>\n        Produced By Ian (mixed Grill) Macnaughton 7\/6d<br \/>\n                         BBC SPAM TV<br \/>\n                     Service Not Included<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Here is my list of demands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but plutonium is kinda hard to find.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Oh, that.  You can just substitute Spam!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                                      -Night Court<\/p>\n<p>     Spamalope:  &#8220;Fast as fast can be, no one will DARE to<br \/>\nEAT ME!&#8221;<br \/>\n                          &#8211; Mix Of The Far Side And Raphael<br \/>\n                          Dareau&#8217;s Parody Of A Famous Phrase<br \/>\n                          On America&#8217;s Funniest People.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it true that the state of Nebraska is entirely<br \/>\nmade up of Spam?&#8221;<br \/>\n                          &#8211; Dave Barry, Bangor Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>                         BACK TO NOVA<\/p>\n<p>     Laecretius, a fine and powerful sorcerer, was running<br \/>\nlevel 14 in Avatar, roasting and toasting monsters like all<br \/>\nfine young sorcerers do, and was having fun making the<br \/>\nmillions that he usually does, when all of a sudden he ran<br \/>\ninto something called Ninja.  Ninja did not appreciate<br \/>\nLaecretius teleporting into his room and awakening him from<br \/>\nhis nap, and instantly took out his Ginsu knives and sliced<br \/>\nthrough Laecretius like the tin cans in the commercials.<br \/>\nLaecretius yelled out &#8220;OH SPAM&#8221;, fell to the floor, and<br \/>\npromptly died.  These words that he yelled were echoed around<br \/>\nthe walls of the dungeon and were actually amplified so that<br \/>\nthe entire dungeon heard his last words before Laecretius&#8217;s<br \/>\ntotal demise.  Within the next few minutes, the conversations<br \/>\nbetween warriors, magicians, thieves, etc, were about Spam<br \/>\nand it happened so fast that it made people dizzy when they<br \/>\nwere finally subjected to the concept.  People kept talking<br \/>\nabout their favorite items, but they wondered what it would<br \/>\nbe like if those particular items were made of Spam, for<br \/>\nexample, Helmet Of Spam.  However, this topic was not totally<br \/>\nliked, as people got sick of it rather quickly and yelled out<br \/>\n&#8220;No more SPAM!&#8221; before they turned off their ability to<br \/>\nreceive messages of any kind from any other player of any<br \/>\nkind, especially those characters that belonged to Raphael<br \/>\nDareau, the creator of the new NovaNET concept.<\/p>\n<p>     As soon as alpert t became involved, KOR and SPAM became<br \/>\none and acted like a single unit.<\/p>\n<p>     After the creation of the Spam phrases and the Nova<br \/>\nconcept of it, it began to spread at a rate that could not<br \/>\nhave been predicted by anyone.  It overflowed not only<br \/>\nAVATAR, but Nova itself and the local Bangor BBS&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>     Meanwhile, in a galaxy far away, Felix stood on the<br \/>\nbridge of his Imperial StarShip watching over his dominion.<br \/>\nHis executive officer was monitoring the status of the<br \/>\nportals of the other universes while Felix sat in his<br \/>\nCaptain&#8217;s chair for the purpose of looking important.  After<br \/>\nall, there was not much to do as he had an iron fist over<br \/>\nCERL and there was nothing that anyone could do about it.<\/p>\n<p>     Finally, he felt like he should give an order to make<br \/>\nhimself look important.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Lieutenant Jones, would you please open a hailing<br \/>\nfrequency to Grog&#8217;s Pizza and have them beam up 21 large<br \/>\ngrease bombs to go?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Aye-aye, sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     Suddenly, the red alert alarms came on and a huge vessel<br \/>\nappeared and fired.  Felix&#8217;s Imperial StarShip shook wildly.<br \/>\nFelix&#8217;s Tactical Officer then announced, &#8220;Incoming Vessel<br \/>\nfrom the NOVA portal!  Sensors indicate it is powered by a<br \/>\nimprobability drive!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     Then pink blobs came out of a torpedo tube of the enemy<br \/>\nvessel and began to stick onto the Imperial StarShip.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Sensors indicate no damage from the objects, however,<br \/>\nthey are creating excess mass on our hull, decreasing our<br \/>\nmaneuverability.  The objects appear to be made of a Spam<br \/>\nlike substance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Fire all available weapons.&#8221;, Felix ordered.<\/p>\n<p>     Powerful weapons lanced out into space but the other<br \/>\nships shields absorbed all of the energy quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Incoming Message from the Enemy Vessel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;On screen.&#8221;, Felix said with a sigh.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;Don&#8217;t be alarmed, Mr. Orotony.  Be very very afraid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     Felix kept firing, hoping that one of his phasers or<br \/>\ntorpedoes would knock out Merlin&#8217;s main power source, a cup<br \/>\nof tea, but all attempts failed.  Theo destroyed the Imperial<br \/>\nStarShip with a slingshot that was armed with a keg of Spam<br \/>\nand Felix&#8217;s vessel became a bowl of petunias and they sighed,<br \/>\n&#8220;Not again!&#8221; before being destroyed by the flick of a sperm<br \/>\nwhales tail.  However, Felix escaped in his trusty pod and<br \/>\nheaded back to Magrathea, which is an incredible clone to<br \/>\n=pad.  With the Spamalope, Merlin kept bombarding the planet<br \/>\nwith his Spam missiles and The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide To The<br \/>\nGalaxy, causing CERL to collect a fleet to destroy this<br \/>\nnuisance.  However, much of CERL was too far away to actually<br \/>\nkill this person, so they offered high powers to him if he<br \/>\nwas to leave =pad alone.  He agreed, but CERL squeezed out of<br \/>\nthe agreement, which encouraged Merlin, who was eventually<br \/>\njoined by Raphael Dareau and Gecko (Thanatos).  However, this<br \/>\nportal was the only way to affect CERL and things from NOVA<br \/>\ncould not exist long within the alternate universe therefore<br \/>\nthe attacks did not maintain themselves.<\/p>\n<p>     However, 21 large pizzas mysteriously appeared within<br \/>\nNova on a Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>     Spam found several domains within the NovaNET world.  It<br \/>\nresided not only in AVATAR and =pad, but it found it&#8217;s<br \/>\nhomebase within =purgatory, a notesfile that was quite like<br \/>\n=pad, but it was locally based by Raphael Dareau and was<br \/>\nknown to have been somewhat of a success, as people actually<br \/>\nused it.  =Pad was the location of the portal that went to<br \/>\nCERL, and Merlin frequently slung Spam into the Portal, not<br \/>\nonly hitting Felix and his Imperial StarShip, but he hit<br \/>\ncountless innocents as well.  Then once CERL devised the<br \/>\nultimate defense, the Spam Shields and Death Threats, phrases<br \/>\nwere tossed out into the portals from sources such as Monty<br \/>\nPython&#8217;s Flying Circus, The HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy,<br \/>\nand Star Trek.  The Star Trek itself was not regarded as bad,<br \/>\nmore of a sugar coating over the rest of the material that<br \/>\ncame through.  The Death Threats did not work though, and the<br \/>\nSpam Shields eventually eroded under the weight.<\/p>\n<p>     However, the term &#8220;slinging&#8221; became quite popular, and<br \/>\nthe Pro-Spam people became to be known as &#8220;The Slingers Of<br \/>\nThe Spam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     Then things became worse when many slingers were given<br \/>\nhigher powers on NovaNET.  These higher powers were known as<br \/>\n&#8220;meauthor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>     Then a few celebrations occurred.  The Thomasrino and<br \/>\nMerlin decided to cook a can of Spam at midnight at Merlin&#8217;s<br \/>\nhouse.  The smell quickly engulfed the entire house, causing<br \/>\nMerlin&#8217;s Parental Unit to be resurrected to a state of<br \/>\nconsciousness.  She quickly went to the head of the stairs<br \/>\nand yelled &#8220;What IS that AWFUL smell?&#8221;  As last report, it<br \/>\ntook 3 days to remove the essence of the Spam-Cookathon.<\/p>\n<p>     Months went by.  Then the Great Felixmeister, who had<br \/>\nrecovered enough funds to rebuild his Imperial StarShip,<br \/>\ndecided that he would extend more powers over more of<br \/>\nNovaNET.  He took firm control of Avatar, and then decided to<br \/>\nchange the entire look with the current version at CERL.  He<br \/>\ncreated monsters in the game that would finish the entire<br \/>\ngame, and people made suicide runs to the lowest part of the<br \/>\ngame and they quickly got toasted by Astral Traveller or by<br \/>\nsome other nasty.  (Laecretius got toasted by Scubbi for 2881<br \/>\ndamage, which killed him too fast to enable him to yell &#8220;Oh<br \/>\nSpam.&#8221;)  Then the game became different in the mass transport<br \/>\nfrom CERL to NOVA.  However, Spam at this time began to<br \/>\noverflow into real-life in the Bangor area of Maine.  Murph,<br \/>\nSchultz, Winn, and a few others were hit the hardest, as the<br \/>\nSlingers Of The Spam visited within their domain, a little<br \/>\nplace in Orono called CAPS, a truly marvelous place that you<br \/>\nwould not like to see.  NOVA overlapped this place, and<br \/>\npeople frequently went here to use Nova en masse, creating<br \/>\nhuge groups of Characters to go down into the dungeon of<br \/>\nAVATAR to make money.  One such group was called =zhentarim,<br \/>\na group that was in direct competition with =warlond.<br \/>\n=Warlond was headed by the mysterious Murphy S\/Umaine, who<br \/>\nfor some reason vanished quickly after the Incident in<br \/>\nRevelations.<\/p>\n<p>     Murph and Schultz in particular, became quite annoyed at<br \/>\nthe visits of The Slingers Of The Spam, and Schultz, who ran<br \/>\nthe head-Warlock at the time, announced universally, &#8220;NO<br \/>\nWARLOCK SHALL EAT SPAM!&#8221;, not that they really paid any<br \/>\nattention.  Murph bombarded the group by asking them:  Do you<br \/>\nhave any thing else better to do?\/Do you have homes?\/I&#8217;ll pay<br \/>\nyou $5 if you go home RIGHT NOW.  Raphael Dareau retaliated<br \/>\nwith Merlin and Gecko acting as shields.  However, the CAPS<br \/>\ngroup did have hearts, and decided that perhaps that if they<br \/>\nrescued these souls from the afterlife when they died in<br \/>\nAVATAR, that they might concede to their ideas.  This never<br \/>\nhappened however.<\/p>\n<p>     Then the Gods Of NovaNET got together in a conference<br \/>\nabout the entire ordeal on Nova.  They took special attention<br \/>\nto the course that the Spam ideals were taking, and they<br \/>\ndecided it was much more obtrusive than anything that had<br \/>\noccurred.  They decided to take action, showing these pitiful<br \/>\npeople that they could me much more OBTRUSIVE than anything<br \/>\nelse in the world.  After they had completed this, they were<br \/>\ndelighted with the results.  They had made CERL and NOVA one<br \/>\nwhole and complete Universe, taking away the breathing Space<br \/>\nthat the Slingers Of The Spam had.  Besides, this action<br \/>\nsaved them $1 million a year, because it was very hard to<br \/>\nclean CERL from all the soiling the Slung-Spam had caused<br \/>\nthem.<\/p>\n<p>     It was at this time in history that Raphael Dareau<br \/>\nto coin the phrase, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to change your mind&#8230;by<br \/>\nhitting it with a rock&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     Then it happened.  Judgement Day.<\/p>\n<p>     The Debmeister swooped back down to the Earth and began<br \/>\nto attack people again, like the last time, but this time for<br \/>\nkeeps.  Again, Jim Troutman remained unaffected, as all blows<br \/>\nand such things that caused most of the other people on the<br \/>\nSystem to die remained ineffective.  Indeed, few people<br \/>\nremained.  Raphael Dareau survived, but barely.  Murph, Winn,<br \/>\nand Schultz still survived.  Leonardo still survives also.<br \/>\nThen, Debbe sucked all the ports out of existence, cutting<br \/>\nmany contacts.  A few of these people had signons, but they<br \/>\nhad no way to use them &#8212; except for the rare occasion that<br \/>\nthe fabric of the local universe wears thin and the Nova<br \/>\nuniverse is visible through the crack in the fabric.<\/p>\n<p>     Then Spam slowly began to fizzle out.  However, before<br \/>\nit lost more of it&#8217;s sight, Raphael Dareau, Merlin, and Gecko<br \/>\nfound out that Spam Pizza was not wholely bad (Even though<br \/>\nGecko wanted his stomach pumped for a second time.), that<br \/>\nMerlin&#8217;s Parental Unit can be made to evaculate the house<br \/>\nquickly and more efficently than ever imagined.  The Boy&#8217;s<br \/>\nlocker room at Orono High School has a piece of Spam hidden<br \/>\nin the panels at the top of the ceiling &#8212; which has been<br \/>\nthere since November 3rd, 1991 (The Rats Haven&#8217;t Touched It<br \/>\nYet.) &#8212; and Gecko had to do this to keep his parents from<br \/>\npoking and staring at it all of the time in the freezer.<br \/>\nMerlin also discovered a Can Of Spam in a stocking on<br \/>\nChristmas morning, which his Mom and his sister thought was<br \/>\nhilarious, until Merlin threated to cook it then and there.<br \/>\nThe Spam Incident happened at the John Bapst Library, where<br \/>\nthree members of the Anti-Spam (Leo, Don and the Sexman) took<br \/>\na can of Spam that Raphael Dareau brought in, and threw it<br \/>\nacross the entire room, causing the can to split when it hit<br \/>\nthe floor, causing a horid smell and mess.  The library still<br \/>\nsmells like Spam to this day.  (And the librarian thinks it<br \/>\nis a new wood cleaner.)  Gecko has chased several teachers<br \/>\naway with just the mentioning of Spam.  And finally, the<br \/>\nThomasrino has decided to become Anti-Spam.<\/p>\n<p>     However, a prophet on top of King&#8217;s Mountain decided<br \/>\nthat it was written in the stars that Spam would make a<br \/>\ncomeback some day in the near future, that is, if Eloise<br \/>\nDaniels doesn&#8217;t make it completely as a Cartoon Superhero<br \/>\nwith Dan Quayle.<\/p>\n<p>     The Slingers Of The Spam wait for its return&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>     However there are those who believe that Spam has<br \/>\nchanged into another form.  One of thses forms that it is<br \/>\nbelieved to had becomed is that of a IBM computer program<br \/>\ncalled TriTel.  Tritel, however, resembled KOR more than it<br \/>\nresembles Spam, but this may not be entirely true.  The only<br \/>\nreal simularity between Spam and TriTel is that is was made<br \/>\nalmost by the same way.<\/p>\n<p>     M.G. was working on his latest BBS program, which for<br \/>\nsome reason did not seem to be working at the time, but he<br \/>\nspend many sleepless nights working on this program, a<br \/>\nsupposed replacement for many BBS types.  However, after many<br \/>\ntimes debugging the program, he finally was satified with the<br \/>\npackage.  It was at this time that he and Mutant Slime<br \/>\ndecided it was time to give the program life.  M.G.  placed<br \/>\nthe TriTel disk on a bench, and put electrical wires on the<br \/>\ndisk and clamped them to the media.  Then after clearing the<br \/>\nimmediate area, Mark threw a huge switch, causing electricity<br \/>\nfrom Bangor Hydro to flow into the disk.  Then the disk began<br \/>\nto move and Mutant Slime announced, &#8220;It&#8217;s ALIVE!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     Indeed, at that point, TriTel was born, and it began to<br \/>\nspread in almost the same exact way as Spam did, but on a<br \/>\ngrander scale.  Within 2 months, people in Europe heard about<br \/>\nTriTel and began to use it.  But unlike Spam, TriTel&#8217;s growth<br \/>\ndid not reach the &#8220;deadly plateau&#8221;, but it kept growing.<br \/>\nHowever, people decided that TriTel was not wholely KOR, as<br \/>\nit is editable, unlike KOR.<\/p>\n<p>     Several recipies were made involving triTel, but to<br \/>\nconserve space, we ask that you look at &#8220;How To Eat TriTel&#8221;,<br \/>\nwritten by the same author as this publication.<\/p>\n<p>Or was it?<\/p>\n<p>     If you hate these texts, you probabally won&#8217;t like these<br \/>\nones either:<\/p>\n<p>y The Story Of Spam<br \/>\ny The Story Of Spam, Volume 2<br \/>\ny The Story Of Spam, Volume 3<br \/>\ny How To Eat TriTel<br \/>\ny Story Of TriTel<br \/>\ny Adventures Of Eloise Daniels the HEROINE.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-14110 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='14110' data-nonce='bc39e8310e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-14110 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-14110 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 Compliments Of 12-20-1991 3 3 3 3 =PURGATORY BBS 3 3 (207)-866-2399 3 3 3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-14110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-othernonsense","tag-english","wpcat-7-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14111,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14110\/revisions\/14111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}