LubeDude
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Man it will be nice when boating season starts again!<br /><br />Lovers of the English language might enjoy this.....<br /><br /><br />There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP." <br /><br />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?<br /><br />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?<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />To be dressed is one thing but to be dressedUP is special. And this UP is confusing:<br /><br />A drain must be openedUP because it is stopped UP.<br /><br />We openUP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !<br /><br />To be knowledgeable about the proper uses ofUP, 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 .<br /><br />If you areUP 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.<br /><br />When it threatens to rain, we say it is cloudingUP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. <br /><br /><br />When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.<br /><br />One could go on and on, but I'll wrap itUP, for now my time is UP, so.............<br /><br />Time to shutUP.....! <br /><br />Oh...one more thing:<br />What is the first thing you do in the morning &the last thing you do at night?<br /><br />U P
