Why a spoon?
 

For the longest time I thought tabs really was talking about actual Spoons and since I didn't care about that I never clicked. Then I realized it was a code word for guns. But I don't understand why. So why? Someone explain it to me????

Because forks are fly rods...jeeez.;)

I remember one thread in particular where he posted photos of a spoon. That's the first that I remember. I don't know how that relates to the spoon=gun thing.

Actually I think it goes back to 2002 in an OT thread about gun control...years before PARF. Leland Pate made a reference to spoons being used as weapons in response to a post by Tabby and Cam.

Post #76...first ever reference to spoons in OT.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/89326-guns-topic-911-board-4.html

That'd be just like tabs, to take some obscure reference and carry on forever. :)

You dare to question Ignatius?

Do not try to bend the spoon — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon.

Hate to break it to you guys but Tabdula the Great also collects spoons... you know, like the ones you eat with...

:D

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_7FHQQJXuE40/Su...nces_cover.jpg

Guess that makes us part of the Confederacy....

guilty as charged.

But I'm not picking up his used tissues...

I can't articulate it over the web, but the resemblance of the Ignatius J. Reilly character in Toole's masterpiece to the online persona of our fellow forumite is the definition of uncanny, IMO.

He certainly has replaced the Lucky Dog Cart with the Las Vegas Casino buffet.:p

Yes he has.

friend of mine in NOLA used to date a guy exactly like that

he lived in his mother's basement and ran a small printing press

same hat, face, beard, trench coat...

no hot dog cart tho

I was under the assumption that a "spoon" was any collectable with a potential increase in value. firearms just seem to be the son's flavor at this time.

Didn't Tabby actually collect spoons also at one time??

My brother had the office next to the character IPR was based upon at USL. Apparently O'Toole was highly accurate in his descriptive efforts.

I've had brunch, dinner and cigars with Tabs. He is a very, very sharp person.

When you sup with the devil you had better have a long spoon.