OK...what is the 'tabs' story??????

[SlowToady]

Yea, curiosity is getting the best of me. Rolls Royce's, vintage spoons, nice firearms, gigantic houses...just what is the deal with tabs? Got lucky on Real Estate in the 80s/90s? Cashed in on the tech boom and smart enough to get out before the bust? I could have sworn I saw him say something about a Trust Fund...is that it?

However, tabs, you seem to talk about large parts of your wealth as being in the past...you had money at one point and you don't now? Or just not as much?

It's fun/interesting to see how board members online identities change...witness Mul. Well, tabs is a pretty interesting character..so, what's his story?*

*I realize taking this to PM would have been more private, but I'm interested as much in his take of things as I am in other members who have been here for awhile. What do other members remember about tabs and his story?

[Drago]

Ask Paul.

[Tobra]

Did you ever see Devil's Advocate? That was about him, and I don't mean Keanu Reeves

[competentone]

My understanding is that his name "tabs" comes from all the soda can tabs he picked up and saved during the time he lived under highway overpasses.

The story, as I've heard it, is that he sold his collection of tabs during the peak prices for aluminum around 1990 and bought himself a nice single-wide (used) which he lived in in New Orleans until hurricane Katrina displaced him.

The government gave him a new double-wide along with a number of credit cards and he's been spending "hog-wild" at auctions ever since, actually making some good returns in his wheeling-and-dealing -- demonstrating that government hand-out programs can actually work!

[Joeaksa]

He is really Elvis. Elvis never left the building, just had it all moved to Las Vegas.



If you had come to this recent Pelican lunch in Vegas, you would have seen photos of his spoons, and he even brought one with him. After all, how can you have lunch without a spoon?

[Jeff Higgins]

Tabs was a male prostitute, the original American Gigilo.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
Tabs was a male prostitute, the original American Gigilo.

some say he danced with wolves... as foreplay...

[pwd72s]

Originally posted by Drago
Ask Paul.

If Toady knew the full story, we'd have to kill him....

[turbo6bar]

Come and listen to a story about a man named tabs
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin' crude.

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by pwd72s
If Toady knew the full story, we'd have to kill him....

From what I hear, "Guido and his friends" in Vegas will be happy to take care of any issues on this thread...

[the]

Originally posted by turbo6bar
Come and listen to a story about a man named tabs
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin' crude.

I thought it was more like this:

Come and listen to a story about a man named Ted,
A rich trust funder, he kept his piehole fed,
Then one day into the towers flew the ragheads,
The next thing you knew, the market it was dead.

Crash it did, huge decline, big bear roar.

Well the first thing you know ol' Ted's not a millionaire,
Kinfolk said Ted, you gotta move away from Bel Aire
Said Las Vegas is the place you ought to be
So he loaded up the truck and moved to the LV.

Purgatory, that is.
Last chancers, the down and out.

The LV Hillbillies!

Ya'll come back, you hear.

[Eric 951]

tabs was born the son of a poor sharecropper. After a stint in the Navy, he opened up his first dry cleaning store. Through hard work and dedication, he parlayed that single store to a mini-empire of (7). His newfound wealth allowed him to move into the high-rise apartment of his dreams and hire a sassy full-time maid. Often at odds with his quirky neighbors and tip-hungry doorman, he eventually left that enclave for the ministry--where he presided over an unlucky-in-love grown daughter, and was subjected to more sass and quirkiness in the form of choir members, and his flock. Tiring of constantly helping those in need, he abandoned the cloth for the genteel life of the trailer park and its upper-crust pastimes of spoon collecting, firearms dealing, buffett dinners, and fez-wearing. On occasion he will pass on wisdom to those fortunate enough to have not been banned from PPOT. Like modern-day Johnny Appleseeds, those who have heeded his sage advice go forth and spread his message--nurturing new pockets of humanity based upon these teachings,and ensuring those gleaned truths will forever be known as having been taken from the source itself--that which is tabs. And the circle is complete.

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally posted by svandamme
some say he danced with wolves... as foreplay...

I've never done the Tango with Tabs.

[turbo6bar]

Originally posted by WolfeMacleod
I've never done the Tango with Tabs.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by WolfeMacleod
I've never done the Tango with Tabs.

Have heard, underground you know, that anyone who "does the Tango with Tabs" is never heard from again.

Its a large desert out there and every Ace hardware sells shovels for less than $10...

[speeder]

If you're in with the right people in Vegas, the holes are already dug. All you have to do is push the dirt back in after you use them.

[tabs]

TABS = Throughly A$$ BackwardS

Or at least thats what Mother says, she named me...so it must be true.

[Tim Hancock]

Originally posted by Joeaksa

Its a large desert out there and every Ace hardware sells shovels for less than $10...

Iraq's desert is large also. No doubt there are a few things buried there if you know what I mean Joe

Back on subject, does Tabs live in a trailer or a mansion now as it seems I have seen pictures of both?

Or does Mother live in the mansion and Tabs sleeps in the trailer away from Mother's sharp tongue?

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by Tim Hancock Iraq's desert is large also. No doubt there are a few things buried there if you know what I mean Joe

You mean like this?




When you realize that someone can hide a whole batch of airplanes out in the desert, just think what else might be out there???

The mind boggles and Tabs has a fertile mind...

[fingpilot]

Most men have to use a shovel to bury their sins.

Tabs uses those spoons.