Remember the good ole' days when one night each week as kids we celebrated all that was good in the world, and sat down with our parents to a nice meal of ... SPAM ... that delicious Epicurean repast of a tightly packed gelatized glob of pig shoulder and God knows what else? C'mon now, admit it ... you had it, and loved it. Well... sorta'. Remember?

Well, that was then, and this is now. With a little help from Monty Python and friends, we now know Spam in a whole new context. Yes, instead of a delicious mixture of pig parts, shimmering under candlelight on your dining room table (and did you know, they now have Spam with CHEESE? Yum-yum!) ... yes instead of that, Spam is now a varied mixture of uninvited sales pitches and grossly plagiarized emails that find their way to our computers faster than those little gnats find my face in the summer.

Yeah, like I really need to lose weight! I stepped on a scale in Walmart the other day, and it gave my money back! A N Y W A Y ... about Spam. Well, you'll be happy to know that last week, our lawmakers in Washington introduced a bill known as "The Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act". Could it be that the act alone might just cause some gelatized pork to come out of Congress, eh? The bill followed testimony by an 8th grade dropout who said that he could "spam" 180-million emails in 12 hours ... and, he does !!!

Anyway, I hope you don't find this little weekly masterpiece to be "spam", but if you do ... try it with cheese. I've actually found that the new "cheezeified" Spam really pulls out much of that old grit and "dead paint" on my 13-year-old Jeep...and, it buffs up quite nicely, too. Cheers!