The Power of a two letter word

[Super Ordinary Guy]

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 UP to the secretary to write UP a report? 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.

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. 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 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, but I'll wrap it UP for now before someone tells me to just "dry up" my time is UP.

[n11pilot]

I'm not sure I'm up for this.

[Farnham]

After reading that, I'm up for a drink.

[Blackthorn]

I just woke UP and it's too early in the morning for such deep thought. I'll understand it better after I get some coffee and begin caffeining UP.

[Major Eaton]

According to my superiors, I'm too much of a [censored for your protection]-UP to understand, mostly because they say I have my head UP my [censored for your protection]...

[Super Ordinary Guy]

I knew you guys were UP to the task of adding to the list...

[Doug Palumbo]

Please do shut up.

[CharlieB]

After reading this, and thinking too long and hard about it, I may crack UP, but...
we will never give UP!

[Bendingoak]

I don't think I'm UP for reading all this.

[Super Ordinary Guy]

Please do shut up.

[n11pilot]

Please do shut up.

Now, now SOG. Doug didn't mean it. I'm sure he was really up for this post. See, look he put a smiley emoticon after his post, its ok. Things are looking up.


Geeze these creative types are so sensitive, er, did I say that out loud?

[CharlieB]

Please do shut up.

Now, now SOG. Doug didn't mean it. I'm sure he was really up for this post. See, look he put a smiley emoticon after his post, its ok. Things are looking up.


Geeze these creative types are so sensitive, er, did I say that out loud?

Yes buck-up SOG, your posts always brighten up our day!

[Cousi]

There's too much sucking up going on here. I'm of the mind that he needs to suck it up and grow up a bit.

[n11pilot]

OK, enough picking on SOG!

SOG is a personal friend of a guy whose brother-in-law knows the guy who hands out towels in Raoul's gym, tenuous I know, but that is enough for Raoul.

You wouldn't want Raoul to light you UP, now would you?

[DanielJones]

Cheer UP guys! It's Friday!

Cheers!

Dan