The other day I was listening to Howards Stern show and Gary BA-BA-BOEY  used the term let me set the table when talking about a marriage that he thinks is doomed from the start and is going to fail. Howard thought is was set the scene.

The next day Howards says I think your using that phrase wrong and  BA-BA-BOEY  got all indignant and said no I am not its used in sports all the time.

Then the next day people emailed in saying Howard its Setting the stage.

I'm her to say there all wrong. The proper term would have been setting the pins. The phrase is your setting the Bowing pins up to be knocked down. So the situation is expected to fail from the start.

The term setting the table is used by sports announcers to denote a specific position of players on the field.

 Like this is where the salt shaker is and this is where the plate is and the napkin and so on, and if this happened to this piece or player then this will happen to cause this to the other table setting etc.

Gary would have been right if he say's your setting a table with one leg shorter than the other and at anytime someone will come by and knock everything over!

When you set the scene you are explaining general conditions that exist so everyone knows what your talking about.

Let me set the scene like in a movie or a play.

It the middle of the mountain range on a clear day the wagon trains is moving west.. Your not necessary expecting failure your just setting the conditions that exist.

Some one else said: It's setting the stage, this is close to setting the scene but failure is not necessary the end, and if setting the stage you are probably more specific.

Your in the middle of the Sara Madras mountain range, scenery a mountain range, enter horses and wagons stage right then exist stage left, bird singing in back ground, queue bird sounds, actors speak there lines etc, exit stage left curtain drops.

You can say setting the scene for disaster and add: The shy darkens, thunder sounds and the horses spook. If your setting the stage you have to go queue lightning machine etc.

So the correct way to infer that a marriage is doomed from before it started is.

Let me set the scene your at the bowling ally the pins have been set, and Bobo the clown is like the extra  pin laying in the gutter and it has to be cleared by a gutter ball before the game can resume and Bobo's fiancée is the bowler with the ball waiting to clear the pin out of the gutter and once the pin has been cleared by her you BOBO will be reset with all the other pins and the only way you have any hope is if your pin comes up in a 7-10 split and your wife is a poor bowler.

You also could have said you have a snowballs chance in hell of that marriage succeeding.

Or you can say let me set the scene: Your girl friends setting the table and your a glass of water sitting on the edge of the table that has a wobbly leg that's shorter than the other legs, that's what I think of your marriage.

Or you can say let me set the scene: A Matradee at a busy restaurant has set a table in the middle of a high volume area of the restaurant, your the half empty dirty stained glass of water setting on the edge of a table and the table has a wobbly leg that's shorter than the others and your wife is the beautiful flower in the middle of the center piece vase that has been pushed out of the way for the dirty dishes in the center to the opposite edge of the table and the only way your going to be together is the bus boy clearing the tables gets to you before you spill off the table and instead dumps you into her vase and there are four 5 years old eating at the table, so what do you think the chances are?

Then there's the most famous line of all time.

A rich man getting into heaven is like a camel going threw the eye of a needle.

(You Think Impossible.)

 Then everyone thinks' that's impossible!

 Christ is  saying its impossible for rich man to get into heaven.

 Ah! all those rich men depressing us poor are going to fry in hell.

The rich men are going: I'm going to fry in hell, so I a rich man should do what every the hell I want on earth.

but then Christ drops the other shoe or sandal.

With God all things are possible!  Those that have faith in God everything is possible, faith can move mountains anything you pray for in Gods name can happen, if you have absolute faith in God.

Except all the Catholics and all the doom Sayers all go around telling little children. A rich man getting into heaven is like a camel going threw and eye of a needle.

They don't tell you the last part.

Maybe people without money want to believe that so they feel better about their predicament etc.

I remember growing up and all the preachers on the radio would always say that and they never said the last part. blasphemers, shysters, false prophets, preaching to me about false profits' and blasphemers and telling me I was going to hell and that Armageddon was a pound us, every night I would go to bed figure I would wake up in hell. I mean between the dam atomic attack fall out shelter drills in school and preachers preaching damnation and my friends father telling me if I ever stole a nickel I was going to hell and the world was ending by such and such date. Then that date comes along and your thinking what's going on here?

So all my childhood. I'm thinking I have to be doomed to poverty all my life or I'll go to hell.

So you look in the bible and find the truth yourself. But then you go threw life things happen and things don't happen the way you plan, You say I have faith in God why aren't things happening the way I want? Why did this bad thing happen to me? Why did this person Die? I do good works. Why am I not having all I want? You may even say God why have you deserted me?

Then while your hands are on the asses of the 2 girls kissing in the middle of the dance floor in the Mob owned bar with your Mob buddy bartender filling your glass with free whiskey, you realize for the moment you've deserted god and while you still have faith, your faith is not absolute, your not giving all you own to god and becoming a preacher.

 Your being a human being, your not perfect, but if your faith is diminished for the moment or gets stronger at some times and you think god has deserted you, but its actually your deserting Gods word for the moment.

You learn that even though your faith is low at times, if you do good works and try to do more good everyday in your life than bad. You can chip away that stone and move  mountains.

That's faith.

 Though I walk threw the valley of the shadow of my death. I shall fear no evil. I added my to that phrase because that is what people fear there own death. So even , though I don't plan on going  all Matrix and disregarding my life like a fool and putting my hand up and stopping bullets like Neo in the Matrix, or going all Matrix (reminder Scully when I said I would kill you last? That's right Matrix! Well Scully I Lied. Ray Dong Chong to Arnold: what happened to Scully? Arnold (Matrix)) I let him Go! I'll be Back!)

because like I said my faith in God is never absolute. But it's there anyways. So ' I'll just keep chipping away that stone!

If you see me walking down the street and you ask me how's it going don't be surprised if you her me say!

I'm just chipping away that stone!

06/25/2008

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