FW: Up

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: ) i f you are not up to it, just hit delete...

This is GOOD! There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more uses

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 call UP our friends, 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.

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 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

awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,

for now my time is UP, so I'll shut UP, hoping that you aren't fed

UP with me for sending this on to you!!! Thanks for putting UP with

me, Must go now, have to catch UP with my E-Mails! . I will leave

it UP to you to pass this on.