Why are slabs called slabs?

pcgs69

LickThoseStamps

Safe Location for All Bullion (SLAB)

edix2001

Because they are entombed -- the whole death motif.

speety

<< <i>Because they are entombed -- the whole death motif. >>



^ That's what i've always thought.

MrEureka

I presume it was something HRH's marketing gurus dreamed up.

TwoSides2aCoin

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lathmach

Hmmmmmmm?
Idon't know.
I ate an apple just a bit ago, and you know, I don't know why they call them things apples.
But I know this............
I know what an apple is, and I know what a slab is.

Ray

oxy8890

Because once they are graded they are placed in a small slab.

Besides monolith was too hard for some to remember.

Baley

the shape.

MrSpud

Webster says
Main Entry: 1slab
Pronunciation: ˈslab
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English slabbe
Date: 14th century
1: a thick plate or slice (as of stone, wood, or bread): as a: the outside piece cut from a log in squaring it b: concrete pavement (as of a road); specifically : a strip of concrete pavement laid as a single unjointed piece c (1): a flat rectangular architectural element that is usually formed of a single piece or mass <a concrete foundation slab> (2): a rectangular building having little width with respect to its length and usually height
2: something that resembles a slab (as in size, shape, or density) <backed up by a solid slab of reference material — Times Literary Supplement>

EagleEye

Originally it was called a Tomb, as in entombed.

Actually, the term "slab" came about from a skit on Monty Python where a bunch of Vikings were sitting in a deli singing "Slab", "Slab", "Slab"......

edix2001

First they were referred to as being slabbed (a verb), then as a slab (a noun).
When people die, they are slabbed -- at least put on the slab at the morgue.

A Slab 69 Bustie is not a Goth Sexual Ritual.

Broadstruck

NumisOxide

<< <i>A Slab 69 Bustie is not a Goth Sexual Ritual. >>

Bear

Because the word "CHAIR" was already taken.

fastrudy

Curiously, the fruit that we know as an "Apple", used to be spelled a "Napple". Very early typo that stuck.

tahoe98

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Coxe

When they first hitting the streets, they were seen as more of a plastic box than a coin and they'd stack in a box like slabs of ribs in a slaughterhouse.

For many of the original remnant, they are slabs as in tombstones...."Here lies an alleged PCGS MS65DMPL $1"

ModernCrapNut

it sounded better than tomb

Gemineye

Have you heard the expression.."you stab 'em we slab 'em"....
Well that's what the graders do ...take a stab at the grades...and then place them ino their tombs and alas they are ..Slabs.....