|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Virginia Rocks!
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Just outside the beltway
Posts: 8,497
|
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????
__________________
Rosewood 1983 911 SC Targa | Black 1990 944 S2 | White 1980 BMW R65 | Past: Crystal 1986 944 na Guards Red is for the Unoriginal
|
||
10-27-2009, 04:35 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Magnolia State
Posts: 7,548
|
Because forks are fly rods...jeeez.
__________________
Jim 1987 Carrera 2002 BMW 525ti 1997 Buell Cyclone cafe project 1998 Buell S1W: "Angriest motorcycle I've ever ridden." |
||
|
10-27-2009, 04:44 PM
|
|
|
Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,135
|
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.
__________________
Steve '08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960 - never named a car before, but this is Charlotte. '88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
|
||
|
10-27-2009, 04:50 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Magnolia State
Posts: 7,548
|
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. Guns - a topic from the 911 Board...
__________________
Jim 1987 Carrera 2002 BMW 525ti 1997 Buell Cyclone cafe project 1998 Buell S1W: "Angriest motorcycle I've ever ridden." |
||
|
10-27-2009, 04:54 PM
|
|
|
Virginia Rocks!
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Just outside the beltway
Posts: 8,497
|
That'd be just like tabs, to take some obscure reference and carry on forever.
__________________
Rosewood 1983 911 SC Targa | Black 1990 944 S2 | White 1980 BMW R65 | Past: Crystal 1986 944 na Guards Red is for the Unoriginal
|
||
|
10-27-2009, 05:26 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
You dare to question Ignatius?
|
||
|
10-27-2009, 05:27 PM
|
|
|
|
Cars & Coffee Killer
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: State of Failure
Posts: 32,246
|
Do not try to bend the spoon — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon.
__________________
Some Porsches long ago...then a wankle... 5 liters of VVT fury now -Chris "There is freedom in risk, just as there is oppression in security." |
||
|
10-27-2009, 05:41 PM
|
|
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,943
|
Hate to break it to you guys but Tabdula the Great also collects spoons... you know, like the ones you eat with...
__________________
2013 Jag XF, 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins (the workhorse), 1992 Jaguar XJ S-3 V-12 VDP (one of only 100 examples made), 1969 Jaguar XJ (been in the family since new), 1985 911 Targa backdated to 1973 RS specs with a 3.6 shoehorned in the back, 1959 Austin Healey Sprite (former SCCA H-Prod), 1995 BMW R1100RSL, 1971 & '72 BMW R75/5 "Toaster," Ural Tourist w/sidecar, 1949 Aeronca Sedan / QB |
||
|
10-27-2009, 05:50 PM
|
|
|
Licensed User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ....down Highway 61
Posts: 6,506
|
Quote:
 
|
||
|
10-27-2009, 06:12 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Magnolia State
Posts: 7,548
|
Quote:
Guess that makes us part of the Confederacy....
__________________
Jim 1987 Carrera 2002 BMW 525ti 1997 Buell Cyclone cafe project 1998 Buell S1W: "Angriest motorcycle I've ever ridden." |
||
|
10-27-2009, 06:15 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
guilty as charged.
But I'm not picking up his used tissues... |
||
|
10-27-2009, 06:36 PM
|
|
|
Licensed User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ....down Highway 61
Posts: 6,506
|
Quote:
|
||
|
10-27-2009, 07:04 PM
|
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Magnolia State
Posts: 7,548
|
Quote:
He certainly has replaced the Lucky Dog Cart with the Las Vegas Casino buffet. 
__________________
Jim 1987 Carrera 2002 BMW 525ti 1997 Buell Cyclone cafe project 1998 Buell S1W: "Angriest motorcycle I've ever ridden." |
||
|
10-27-2009, 07:18 PM
|
|
|
Licensed User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ....down Highway 61
Posts: 6,506
|
Yes he has.
|
||
|
10-27-2009, 07:27 PM
|
|
|
AutoBahned
|
Quote:
he lived in his mother's basement and ran a small printing press same hat, face, beard, trench coat... no hot dog cart tho |
||
|
10-27-2009, 07:47 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
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.
__________________
Chris the more i learn, the less i know |
||
|
10-27-2009, 07:54 PM
|
|
|
Parrothead member
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Monmouth county, NJ USA
Posts: 13,846
|
Didn't Tabby actually collect spoons also at one time??
__________________
Vinny Red '86 944, 05 Ford Super Duty Dually '02 Ram 3500 Diesel 4x4 Dually, '07Jeep Wrangler '62 Mercury Meteor '90 Harley 1200 XL "Live your Life in such a way that the Westboro Baptist Church will want to picket your funeral." |
||
|
10-28-2009, 03:48 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: So. Cal.
Posts: 11,249
|
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.
__________________
David 1972 911T/S MFI Survivor |
||
|
10-28-2009, 07:54 PM
|
|
|
Detached Member
Join Date: May 2003
Location: southern California
Posts: 26,964
|
I've had brunch, dinner and cigars with Tabs. He is a very, very sharp person.
__________________
Hugh |
||
|
10-28-2009, 08:05 PM
|
|
|
A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
Posts: 51,063
|
When you sup with the devil you had better have a long spoon.
__________________
Copyright "Some Observer" |
||
|
10-29-2009, 06:09 AM
|
|
1979 Porsche 911SC 3.0
