(once more for your reading pleasure...as in; Sometimes Wendell has to 'straighten' UP the board for various reasons.) 😛 I'd forgotten it, but it's still 'cute as a button'.:-)...
This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
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, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.
At other times, this 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 1/4 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 soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now . . . my time is UP!
Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?
U
P!
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Can I be the first?...Viagra
For when you can't get it...
Oh, never-mind, that's just dumb.
Don
Fast food orders are "UP". Why?
Day's first and last: wake up and shut up? 🙂
Can I be the first?...Viagra
> For when you can't get it...
> Oh, never-mind, that's just dumb.
>
> Don
😀
Good-un, Don!
Let us not forget the U.P. of Michigan
And every rod man and instrument mans favorite thing to hear, PICK UP.
> And every rod man and instrument mans favorite thing to hear, PICK UP.
I always liked to hear 'do it UP', or 'box it UP', myself.
And did you ever notice that the head of a tripod is lower after you set it UP?
What's UP with that?
One time I knocked UP my girlfriend and when I found out I almost UPchucked. I mean, I was so UPset thinking about how my time would be tied UP raising the kid that I just got plain old fed UP. But after the kid grew UP my life settled back down.
(geeez, what has my life become?! last night I dreamed all that stuff UP)
:-O
> (geeez, what has my life become?! last night I dreamed all that stuff UP)
Only one thing to do. AMMO UP!
Oh yeah and sometimes you smell updog.:-|
Front up?
Had a PC use this if he wanted you to move the rod away from your body... If you were standing on line, shoulders parallel to line.
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What's UP With That...
Word UP...that's right
if it is LEFT UP to me, I think this is a DOWNRIGHT crazy thread.
Word UP...that's right
....I was going to post a short YouTube video clip of the infamous Blazing Saddles scene where Sherrif Bart is walking down the street and bids a little old lady "Good Morning ma'am".
She replies with a profound "Up Yours ____________" (fill in the blank), along with a certain one fingered salute.
...but that blank contains a not very PC term, and I don't want to get banned, so I'm not posting it. 😛
I happened croos paths to share an elevator ride with this guy and a few other band mates in ther late 80's in Little Rock at a hotel. Nobody said nothing and some strage looks went around but were going UP
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Word UP...that's right
And there is the phrase used for mistakes "F... Up".
> I happened cross paths to share an elevator ride with this guy....
Julliard grad :-O
Word UP...that's right
> And there is the phrase used for mistakes "F... Up".
There is even an acronym to define them all... FUBAR 🙁
Word UP...that's right
> And there is the phrase used for mistakes "F... Up".
or as they would say in Australia and Happy Valley "cock up"
Word UP...that's right
> > And there is the phrase used for mistakes "F... Up".
>
>
> There is even an acronym to define them all... FUBAR 🙁
and SNAFU
