Monty Pythons Flying Circus/Spam

Spam, spam, spam!

The spam sketch, in which a group of Vikings in a cafe prevent all conversation by louder and louder chanting of the name of a variety of tinned pork, was very popular. The phenomenon, some years later, of marketers drowning out discourse by flooding Usenet newsgroups and individuals email addresses with junk advertising messages was named spamming in honour of this sketch.