Hope your UP to reading this !lol > There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning 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 waken 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 read UP on a story in the paper that we pick UP to find out what is Up > in the world & make UP our minds to not give Up hope that some thing good > will turn Up. > > We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the > silver, and 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, and this is > confusing. > > 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 of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the > dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, UP takes UP almost 1/4th the page > and definitions add UP to about thirty. > > 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 Up to 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 UP the earth When it > doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP. > > One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for my time is UP & I leave > it Up to you to step UP & Keep Up the sharing of this list that has been > made UP to lift Up your spirit, And if it doesn't..... I give UP! > :p Peace to ya! >