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...cover) includes the immortal "Dead Parrot" sketch. Unfortunately it's an import and so more expensive than the ordinary record; this is compensated for, though, by the availability of MP's subsequent two albums as $1.99 cut-outs. These are both classics and include the "Argument Clinic," "Budgies," "Spam," "The Undertaker," "The Travel Agent," "How Long is it?" and Karl Marx on a quiz show. Each contains at least one run of five or six superb pieces...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Of Budgies and Spain | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

...consumers: predictions of record harvests this fall caused farm prices to fall 6% in the month ended April 15, the second straight decline. Citing lower livestock costs, the Hormel packing company cut the price of its meat products by 7% to 14%. Among other things, the price of Spam will drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Bulge After Death | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Monty Python's Flying Circus started on a comedy show on BBC-TV and have begun recording their material only in the last two years. Their first two records, "Another Monty Python Record," and "Monty Python's Previous Record" contained now-classic routines like "Spam," "The Death of Mary Queen of Scots," "The Spanish Inquisition," "The Argument Clinic," and "Eric the Halfabee," but there's nothing like that on this album. The best scene is an Oscar Wilde party where each guest insults the Prince of Wales and then claims someone else made the remark. "Your majesty is like...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Not-So-Great Snakes | 4/17/1974 | See Source »

...from about 89? per doz. in supermarkets to 98?, and as high as $1.19 at small groceries. Center-cut pork chops in Chicago climbed 20? per lb., to $1.69; they were $1.89 in Los Angeles. The Hormel Co. fattened the price of a 12-oz. can of pork-based Spam by 16?; it is now selling for about 85?. Chicken was up 10? per lb., to about 65? in Atlanta, 69? in New York -and rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHASE IV: Prices Leap, Tempers Rise | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...does not have a food stamp program. Instead, there is surplus food doled out in cans and bags at local distribution spots. This "food"-which the government has no use for and generously throws to the poor-consists of delicacies such as powdered milk, lard, flour, canned hamburger meat, spam, and powdered potatoes. Much of it is inedible at best...

Author: By Katharine L. Day, | Title: Welfare: Keeping People Down | 3/10/1971 | See Source »

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