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<DIV><FONT size=4><B>tom in TN(USA)</B><BR></FONT><FONT
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<DIV><FONT size=4>...The Emmy Awards will<BR>employ seat fillers. Because
it is not just<BR>"about" TV shows but in fact IS a TV<BR>show, the
producers want to impress the viewers<BR>that it is an Important TV show
and so has no<BR>empty seats. So when a star goes potty or to get
a<BR>drink or leaves early because they didn't win or<BR>whatever, their
seats will be filled by nobodies<BR>who just want to be near the beautiful
and famous.<BR>You can sign up to be a seatfiller at several<BR>agencies.
I went to TV taping once where not<BR>enough live bodies came to fill the
all free<BR>seats. So they moved everybody down front and<BR>loaded the
back seats with cardboard cut-out<BR>people. When the cameras scanned the
crowd there<BR>were at least silhouettes of folks in the back,
so<BR>viewers at home new it was an important sold-out<BR>full house kind
of show! I wonder if Jesus was<BR>just a seat filler at the dinner, or had
an<BR>assigned seat? Who got to sit by him because<BR>somebody else didn't
show up? I wonder if he would<BR>have had just as good a time talking to
a<BR>cardboard cut-out?<BR>We should have seatfiller agencies for
churches!<BR>Call up Saturday and say, "Hey, we have 3<BR>families on
vacation. Send me 12 pewfillers<BR>tomorrow," or "Old man Smith is back
in<BR>the hospital. Mrs. Smith will be with him. Looks<BR>like we'll need
2 pewfillers for the next<BR>month." Then, when the world looked at
our<BR>full houses, they'd know we were doing something<BR>important and
want to get in. We could make them<BR>reservations for the following week
(not front or<BR>aisle seats mind you) and use fewer pewfillers<BR>then.
Nothing succeeds like success! Isn't that<BR>what the Gospel is all about?
Is that my tongue in<BR>my cheek? Am I asking too many questions
again?<BR><BR><BR></FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>