[triadtechtalk] Re: Up
- From: RICHARD MATTHEW <modelworker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:04:32 -0700
Up until now, I had never thought about this. Thanks!
Richard
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Juanita Kimble <jkimble@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> *You lovers of the English language might enjoy this ..
>
> There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other
> two-letter word, and that is **'UP.'**
> **
> It's easy to understand **UP*, meaning toward the sky or at the top of
> the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake *UP *?
> At a meeting, why does a topic come *UP*?
> Why do we speak *UP *and why are the officers *UP *for election and
> why is it *UP *to the secretary to write *UP *a report?
> We call *UP *our friends.
> And we use it to brighten *UP *a room, polish *UP *the silver; we
> warm *UP *the leftovers and clean *UP *the kitchen.
> We lock *UP *the house and some guys fix *UP *the old car.
> At other times the little word has real special meaning.
> People stir *UP *trouble, line *UP *for tickets, work *UP *an
> appetite, and think UP excuses.
> To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
> A drain must be opened *UP *because it is stopped UP.
> We open *UP *a store in the morning but we close it *UP *at night.*
>
> We seem to be pretty mixed **UP **about **UP*!
> To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of *UP*, look the word *UP *in
> the dictionary.
> In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes *UP *almost 1/4th of the page
> and can add *UP *to about thirty definitions.
> If you are *UP *to it, you might try building *UP *a list of the many
> ways *UP *is used.
> It will take *UP *a lot of your time, but if you don't give *UP*, you
> may wind *UP *with a hundred or more.
> When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding *UP*.
> When the sun comes out we say it is clearing*UP*.*
> When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things **UP*.*
> When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry **UP*.*
>
> One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it **UP*,
> for now my time is *UP*,
> so........it is time to shut *UP*!
> Now it's *UP *to you what you do with this email.
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