As we are currently working about news in class, I'd like to take advantage of it and encourage you (or at least to those of you who haven't done it yet) to have a look at your high school's magazine, Brocal.
Apart from being a really nice publication with many interesting contents, it also has some sections in English which can make a very good reading (or maybe even writing) practice for us.
It is in one of those English sections, Odds and Oddities (page 5) where Ana María Lopez González unveils the mysterious origin of the word "spam", feared and hated by internet users all over the world. In a nutshell, what she says is that this term comes from a very famous sketch by the comic troupe Monty Python... The following sketch, to be precise...
Should anyone need it, there's a Spanish subtitled version here.
By the way, I'm sure you already knew about Monty Python (is there anyone who hasn't seen "The Life of Bryan" yet?), but if you didn't, I'd really encourage you to discover them (they've got their own website and youtube channel). I really love them, and I think that they are really funny (and I'm sure they will appear in this blog again).
That's all for now.
Hope you liked it!
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I think that the best Monty Python sketch is the Ministery of The Silly Walks
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