Brad: Have you heard the expression “bacon?”

Alec: mmmm?

Brad: It’s like spam, but it comes from companies you’ve done legitimate business with.

Brad: The continue to send you crap, even though you’ve opted out.

Brad: It’s like Network Solutions sending me offers to do my Web site for me, when all I want them to do is hold on to my domain names and shut the fsck up; but I have to read it, because it may be something pertaining to my domain names…

[update: apparently it’s ‘bacn’ not ‘bacon’ – hat tip to ed vielmetti]