beginner whitespace question

[eggie5]

On Aug 9, 10:37 pm, James Stroud <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Dan Bishop wrote:
> >> Tabs are for tables, hence the name. "Use spaces for space and use tabs
> >> for tables" can be a little mnemonic to help you remember the rules. We
> >> can make a little song together if you can think of some things that
> >> rhyme with "don't" and "use" and "tabs".
>
> > "won't"
>
> > "blues", "booze", "bruise", "choose", "cruise", "fuse", "hues",
> > "Jews", "lose", "muse", "news", "snooze", "views", etc.
>
> > "abs", "cabs", "crabs", "dabs", "grabs", "labs", "scabs", "slabs",
> > "stabs", etc.
>
> When you want to screw your whitespace--don't!
> Take this little pledge and I know you won't:
>
> When I was in school I would take of booze
> While my typing teacher said I'm free to use
> Space or formfeed or even tabs
> And I punched so hard with my pinkie that scabs
> Covered my Jake and Elwood tatoos.
> (You didn't see that one coming did yous?)

I'm so confused, I have no idea what's going on...