>Spam is an acronym for SPiced hAM.
>
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>That may well be, however I have it on very old and good authority ("WWII"
>wisedom) that "Spam is ham that failed it's physical"

My Dad, an ex-Marine from the European theatre, said it was an acronym
for "Specially Prepared hAM". But maybe that was just the only one he
felt he could tell his (at the time) 10-year-old son.