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
UPto the secretary to write
UP a report ?
We call
UP our friends. And we use it to brighten
UP a room, polish
UPthe 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
UP 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 about the proper uses of
UP, look
UP 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, if it were
UP to me, but I'll wrap it
UP , for now my time is
UP, so........... Time to shut
UP.....!
Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?
U-P ------------------
...shboom