13 Thursday: Spam I Am
1. Does your arm ever get tired from blogging?
2. Do you have a callus on your mouse hand?
3. Note to young offspring, “Don’t end a phone conversation with your mother by saying “My hands are being held together by super glue!”
4. My Asheville potter son has been working overtime to prepare for his BFA Thesis show. He’s had to step up his production of pots and has been firing bricks for a brick wall installation that is to be part of his show, all of which are very hard on the hands.
5. In describing the procedure he’s using to fire bricks at different temperatures for a rainbow colored effect, he said to me, “I’m painting with fire.”
6. There was news story on TV this week about a fireworks factory catching on fire and fireworks were going off all night.
7. I don’t know how to make faces using the keys on the keyboard. I don’t know what all the extra computer keys mean. I remember when typewriters had a cent key. Now a penny is all but obsolete.
8. You could argue that computer spam has given the luncheon meat spam a bad name. Or you could say the luncheon meat spam already had a bad name.
9. At the Floyd’s Friday Night Jamboree, they sell cans of possum. I’m pretty sure it’s done as a joke and shows that the Jamboree folks have a good sense of humor, but I could be wrong.
10. Looking for a unique name to name your baby, a character in your novel, or maybe a spam signature? I think I’ve figured out why so many of my spammers have interesting names. I think they’re getting them HERE.
11. I’ve been collecting some that I find particularly intersesting, like: Colten Ross, Haden Bowles, Declan Butcher, Quentin Hinds, Layton Norris, Noe Burk, Javion Davila, Jaxon Winters, Kaden Mauro, Alden Brock. First names include Jalen, Arturo, Jace, Asher, Kale, Brice, Den, Nata, Lully, Juju, Irgy.
12. There’s a web page for Spam and a fan club! I guess they figure they have to counter THESE guys.
13. Spam is one of those words that the more I say or write it the less it seems real. I’ve never even tasted spam. Is it full of bologna?
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December 7th, 2006 9:04 am
I saw the news story about the fireworks factory over the weekend — the TV footage was pretty neat. I remember the cent key on typewriters, too…. now when you want to say, “Just throwing my two cents in,” you have to either write it like I just did or write it this way: “Just my $0.02.” Doesn’t seem as effective..
December 7th, 2006 9:12 am
Spam is huge in Hawaii. I don’t know what exactly it is but I have been told it is some sort of ham product. Hawaii, such a beautiful place, with such an odd food passion.
December 7th, 2006 9:15 am
I certainly hope the cans of possum were meant to be a joke! I cannot think of anything more disgusting….. not even canned spam. Reminds me of the Monty Python skit….. spam, spam, spam, spam. And of course the Broadway show I didn’t get to see… Spam-a-lot!
December 7th, 2006 9:15 am
You’ve never eaten spam? Grandma use to fry a few slices of spam for my lunch whenever I would visit her for lunch. (she lived next door) And a can of Franco American Spaghetti on the side. Other times it was vienna sausage and rice.
Now days I don’t care for spam. It doesn’t taste the same as it did back in the forties and fifties if you ask me. That was back when you had a little key on top of the can and you would insert a little metal tab on the can into the key and twist it all the way around the can to open it. I am sure you remember cans that opened like that.
I just bought a can of spam a few weeks ago for use in one of my photo projects. More on that may one day follow. Here is what that can says is in it…
Pork with Ham, Salt, Water, Modified Potato Starch, Sugar, Sodium Nitrate.
Ha….What the hell is “Pork with Ham”? I thought pork was ham…or is ham pork? Honest…that what it says.
December 7th, 2006 9:22 am
colleen- i thought of you when i was a reading a medical study yesterday- the last name of the scientist was Speedweed (no joke). and i have a cousin who’s last name is Derryberry, and they named their son Jerry- cruel, huh?
December 7th, 2006 9:25 am
I always thought if I had a boy I’d name him Bryce…I think I would’ve chickened out but I still like it.
No 1, yes. No 2, I don’t have a mouse but that mouse pad that is on the computer keyboard…(a notebook) so my index finger gets really sore and has a callus from rubbing round and round.
I bet you are very proud of your son.
December 7th, 2006 9:26 am
I think that Spam has a lot of pig parts we don’t want to know about. I remember tasting it many years ago, and I was not impressed at all. I can’t imagine why it is so popular in HI, but they do eat more of it than anywhere else on earth.
December 7th, 2006 9:28 am
Everything was made better back in the day, even spam! I kept seeing visions of Eric Ildle and the rest of the MP’s while I was typing this…and missing the cent key is a sign that things are not simple anymore.
December 7th, 2006 9:29 am
mmmm, I love Spam, diced, sauteed til crispy, and tossed in with some Japanese rice (sticky rice) and corn, and sprinkled with a bit of soy sauce…yum!!!
Altho Alan G is right…it doesn’t taste as good as it used to!
December 7th, 2006 9:41 am
LOL. Yes my fingers and eyes get sore from blogging. Is there a support group? Maybe online.
Happy TT
December 7th, 2006 9:45 am
you know there’s a whole SPAM festival? I used to eat it as a kid, but can’t bring myself to do it now. 🙂
December 7th, 2006 10:13 am
I really like “painting with fire.” That is an excellent expression, and I guess it is literally true.
Before my spam counter rolled over, I had more than 170,000 spam comments blocked. In the month since that happened, I’ve run up to at least 7,000 again. I don’t know how certain blogs get to be targets.
When my little ones were littler, they begged us to fix them Spam for dinner once. I remember it being salty and of some mixed ancestry I thought dubious. We never repeated the experience.
December 7th, 2006 10:45 am
spam the food gross.. I get abotu 450 spam emails a day..ugh!
December 7th, 2006 10:47 am
Funny!
December 7th, 2006 10:47 am
“Painting with Fire” I love that image.
LOL #3.
Spam! UGH! My inbox is filled!
Happy Blessed Thursday to YOU!
December 7th, 2006 11:00 am
Awww….girlfriend, what an amazing mind you have. As usual you left me with a smile and giggle.
December 7th, 2006 11:21 am
I didn’t know about the spam ham! the random name generator might cause addiction, lol!
My arm sometimes hurts from blogging…I once had a tennis elbow although I don’t play tennis, but blogging does it to me.
Happy TT, enjoyed my visit as always!
December 7th, 2006 11:31 am
I think the edible stuff already had a bad name…yuk! And I doubt you’ve missed a thing by never trying it.
Love all those names for future characters! Very catchy!
Great TT.
December 7th, 2006 1:50 pm
A potter paints with fire. Are you going to build a poem around that?
December 7th, 2006 4:06 pm
Whenever I go to delete the contents of the “spam” folder in my gmail account, Google places incredibly helpful text ads full of yummy recipes. Featuring Spam. I find it hilarious.
🙂 Smilies were the first thing I learned about the internet/email/chatting from my kids a million years ago.
December 7th, 2006 4:16 pm
I have been looking for the division key on my computer for days now. How could it not be there?
I guess I am just not supposed to divide anything.
Wishing your son great luck on his upcoming thesis show. That is so exciting!
December 7th, 2006 5:24 pm
Alright. There is NOTHING funny about a can of possum! ~,:^)
December 7th, 2006 6:30 pm
I guess our parents and grandparents never liked SPAM Coll and that is why we never had it. But I do remember the key and opening the can that way, but I am sure it was something else?……like Deviled ham with the two red devils on the can or was it sardines?….I don’t eat sardines either. But I did buy a can of Possum for my son Andrew when I went to the Jamboree years back and he loved it!! But of course he loves everything.
December 7th, 2006 7:21 pm
Are you kidding? Did Andrew eat it? I never even opened mine up.
December 7th, 2006 10:24 pm
Yep, I am kidding!!!
Have a great time in Asheville. Give my love to JOSH!
December 8th, 2006 12:17 am
Echoing the others in my love of “painting with fire.” I didn’t try spam until after we moved down here, and then I’ve had only turkey spam. It’s usually too salty for my taste, though our cat Daisy adores it.
December 8th, 2006 12:35 pm
I grew up on Spam, bologna and Chef-boy-a-dee; I did go buy a can awhile back and was disappointed; seemed like it wasn’t as good as I remembered. And neither was the canned spagetti. The names you collected are a lot more fun than the name generator ones!
December 8th, 2006 5:13 pm
The fireworks went off in Sussex England..what irony…a free disply for people from miles around!
I actually have Spam earrings from Germany! My nephew works for Maple Leaf Meats and he knew I would actually wear them!
December 10th, 2006 11:29 am
When I wound up in Saudi Arabia, courtesy US Army 16 years ago, my first hot meal in several days was spam and reconstituted eggs. It was luscious, but I will never be hungry enough for it to be that good again.