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Cham doesn’t sound like a word, so it’s a good thing that the inventors of spam didn’t use curry powder instead of ‘spice’.

March 4, 2007 at 4:43 AM ::
grudknows's avatar

Are you trying to imply that spam has spice in it?  My grandma used to make us sandwiches with spam but we didn’t like them and ‘fed them’ to the almond tree - I don’t remember it having any particular flavour except bland and ick.

grudknows on 03/04/07 at 09:23 AM ::
Keith's avatar

Ha!  Cham.... chamber pot.

Keith on 03/04/07 at 10:20 AM ::
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[snip - for some reason, my comment appeared twice]

grudknows on 03/04/07 at 10:29 AM ::
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I had a thought along similar lines - and it was this, that while Cham doesn’t sound like an actual word, it certainly sounds like a partial word, that is something someone started to utter but then got distracted and didn’t complete.  I must say, I had nothing so interesting as a chamber pot in mind - just cham-pion and cham-pignon.

grudknows on 03/04/07 at 10:29 AM ::
Keith's avatar

Chammer
verb
1. to eat Cham in an uncontrollable manner.
2. to inadvertently eject Cham from one’s mouth while speaking, due to over excitement, enthusiasm, or simple lack of manners: At dinner, Henry was so excited about finding the key to the time machine, that he began to chammer.

noun
1. an act of chammering.
2. the bits of partially chewed food ejected from a person’s mouth while eating and speaking at the same time.
3. a political speech of minor importance (mostly Brit.)

Keith on 03/04/07 at 10:48 AM ::
Jo's avatar

“My cheeks burned with cham” is usually not said in polite company, only to one’s doctor.

Jo on 03/04/07 at 10:57 AM ::
grudknows's avatar

And… found of the Internet (and therefore, by nature, the absolute truth):

NOTE:  Nouns, verbs and other uh… stuff randomly mixed up in no particular order.

Cham Albanians, also spelled as Çam, a people living in Northern Greece of Albanian descent
Cham people, a people living in Vietnam and Cambodia
Cham language, the language of the Cham people
Cham alphabet, the script of the Cham people
Champa, the former Cham kingdom
Cham Dance, a masked dance associated with some sects of Buddhism
Cham (place), Germany and Cham (district), a town and a district in Bavaria, Germany
Cham (place), Switzerland, a city in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland
Jorge Cham (person), a comic-book artist
Amédée de Noé, a French artist whose pseudonym was “Cham” (person)
Cham (singer) born 1977 in Jamaica, a Reggae artist, known for the single
Cham (film), 1931 film
Cham a fictional girl band in the anime Perfect Blue
Cham a type of maneuver used by traceurs more commonly in the United States
Cham an athletic, gymnastic maneuver in which one person leaps over the head of another person, using his hands to push off their shoulders, meanwhile launching himself into the air

I think, that if scriners are going to practice - or be - any form of Cham, it should be the last - I’m not sure why I think this but it’s possibly because if given enough beer, I can picture scriners *attempting* to leap over one anothers heads and shoulders while laughing madly, stopping time to time for beer… or when the need arises, a strong coffee to help sober them up.

grudknows on 03/04/07 at 11:17 AM ::
Keith's avatar

Yes, I believe you’re right, Grud.  I’m long overdue for a bit of spectacular gymnastic maneuvers.

But I don’t see why the event can’t be made even more memorable by combining several of the above Cham items.  Okay, learning a new language is out, for me at least, but I’m up for adding Buddist Cham masks, traveling to either Germany or Switzerland, and at least giving that fictional girl band a chance to audition.

This is exciting!  I’m going to go start limbering up!

Keith on 03/04/07 at 11:28 AM ::
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Gor blimey - 6 billion cans of spam had been sold by 2002 and even if only quarter of those cans that were sold were consumed, there’s a mind boggling number of people that obviously enjoy the stuff.

grudknows on 03/04/07 at 07:33 PM ::
boot's avatar

The nice thing about this place is watching the fun of the ripples after you drop the proverbial pebble in the Scrine-pond.

I make no suggestion that there are spices in spam (how would I know?), but in fact they do:

The current official explanation is that the name is a syllabic abbreviation of “SPiced hAM"…

boot on 03/04/07 at 07:55 PM ::
Keith's avatar

With talk of SPAM still going on, I would suggest everyone pop open the New Tunes player, choose 01 March, and have a listen to High Sheriff Blues.

Don’t be distracted by Soaky in the Pooper, even though that sounds like much more of a SPAM song.

Keith on 03/04/07 at 08:02 PM ::

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