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Remember back in the happy-go-nutty dot-com days, when Hormel was grumpy that junk e-mail had earned the nickname “spam”? Didn’t people know—didn’t they care?!—that hardworking Hormel execs had come up with the name SPAM to sell delicious canned meat? And that they’d done so in 1937, before the parents of most bratty millionaire dot-commers were even born, for God’s sake?

Well, they looked like doofuses. So now, as Eric Idle preps his new Mike Nichols-directed musical, Monty

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