U P

"U P"

Lovers of the English language might enjoy this......
How do non-natives ever learn all the nuances
of English?

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more
meanings than any other two-letter word, and that
word is "UP."

You can use almost any verb in front of the word "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.

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 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 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 ....

Time to shut 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 . . .of course
you do!

Don't screw UP. Send this on to everyone you
look UP in your address book!

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"Three Surgeons from Arkansas"
{Don't throw stones at me - I just publish 'em}

Three Arkansas surgeons were playing golf together
and discussing surgeries they had performed.

One of them said, "I'm the best surgeon in Arkansas.
In my favorite case, a concert pianist lost seven fingers
in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later
he performed a private concert for the Queen of England."

The second surgeon said. "That's nothing. A young man
lost an arm and both legs in an accident, I reattached
them and 2 years later he won a gold medal in track
and field events in the Olympics."

The third surgeon said, "You guys are amateurs. Several
years ago, a man was high on cocaine and marijuana
and he rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80
miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the man's
hair and the horse's ass. I was able to put them
together and now he is President of the United States."
Received on Mon Apr 2 06:24:40 2007