Nov 07, 2015 3:32 PM

Funny, I was wondering about the term just yesterday!

That's good :)

Would it be fair to say that Satoshi just thorn that TABLE apart? :D

As in, no more fucking TABLE ? :D

I have heard of "turn the table."

Like, upside down? :D

I guess it's talking about the club house table that you have to pay to not be apart of.

<<According the Oxford English Dictionary, if you �turn the tables� on someone, it is generally understood that you have reversed the fortunes in your favor to some capacity, so as to �reverse one�s position relative to someone else, especially by turning a position of disadvantage into one of advantage.� Useful saying, especially for motivational halftime speeches at sporting events, but where does it come from?

Believe it or not, from board games!

Backgammon and similar games belong to a class of board games referred to as �tables,� a general name given to games played on a board with dice. If the game wasn�t going in your favor, you would have to �turn� them, figuratively, if you wanted to win. You can�t actually �turn the tables� in a game of backgammon, although that would be nice. The phrase is a metaphor, a substitute for the common idea of a �comeback,� because you would have to reverse the board/the players� current positions/situations in order to change the outcome.

While not as directly relevant to the meaning of the phrase in today�s language, there�s also a hint of this phrase, at least in terms of the words themselves, found amongst old-school dinner party procedures. To prevent anyone from being excluded from conversation, the host would choose a direction (typically the right) and speak with the person to that side of him/her. Everyone else was to follow suit, until the host �turned the tables� halfway through the meal, at which point everyone then switched their focus to the person on the opposite side.>>

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53009/where-does-phrase-%E2%80%9C-turn-tables%E2%80%9D-come

<<Turn the tables:

Meaning

turn the tablesReverse the positions of adversaries. The phrases is often used when the weaker position subsequently becomes dominant.

Origin

Games like backgammon are known as 'tables' games. The phrase 'turn the tables' derives from these games and from the practise of reversing the board so that players play from their opponent's previous position.

The first known example of the figurative use of the phrase in print is in Robert Sanderson's XII sermons, 1634:

"Whosoever thou art that dost another wrong, do but turn the tables: imagine thy neighbour were now playing thy game, and thou his."

See also: vice-versa.>>

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/390300.html

So, apparently the term "tables" (not table, in singular) comes from "table" games, games such as backgammon.

I see it's "Saturday-Wine-Fest" for you, Kent Barrett! :D

:/ ....stay on topic :P

I think "working under the table" means earning fiat, and not declaring it to be taxed.

I was going with your first option, but now I am confused seeing the second one.

So what does this table REPRESENTS? :D

Umm... The place where the goods are accounted for? And it must have owners. Is that where you are going with this?

Above board is synonymous with on the table...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/above+board

What happens under the table can't be seen and is done in secret... Above the table is visible for everyone to see. The blockchain is always above board...

The blockchain is the very definition of above board... ?

What if the slave brought a peanut and some butter separately under the table... Would Nickelback still suck?