Deep thinking for a Friday....

[TheRogue]

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. 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 1/4th 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 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 & the last thing you do at night?

U P



Have a great day!!

TR

[Pete]

Have an UP day! :smile:

[CATCH AND EAT]

UP........ oh never mind. :grin:

Thanks Kyle for the post.

[Hogmaster]

That's so upitty! :grin:

But then again, we seems to be nearly equally confused about DOWN.

We go DOWN the stairs

We go DOWN to the store

We sometimes feel DOWN

We even sometimes have to put our pets DOWN

But when we get DOWN at a party, we are UP!

Some people want to get high so they take DOWNERS?

When we learn something, we say we have it DOWN.

Indeed our direction seems to be generally messed UP! Or is it DOWN?

Like off a duck?

:whazzup:

[FallRiverGuy]

I think someone was trying to one up someone else.

[Hogmaster]

Nah,

I was just (weakly) trying to take on the challenge.

But I'm down with it! :grin:

[FallRiverGuy]

What's up with that?

[Abalone]

I used to work to the UP Railroad.

I quit because it gave me the hick-ups.

[STRUTTIN-1]

I have it up.

[Hogmaster]

Hey, I could use some props!

I've never heard of anyone falling up!

Or is it a seasonal thing?





:grin: :grin: :grin:

[Abalone]

Too much of this and I am going to Throw up....

Where's George Garlin when you need him ?

throw up
up chuck
Chuck it up
Push up
Make up
shut up
close up shop
uppers
Shut up.
up yours
up the down stair case.
Up John's
sneak up
up a creek with out a paddle.

Look it up in the dictionary.
Live it up.
you crack me up
Bucks up
nose up

[FallRiverGuy]

I've never heard of anyone falling up!

:grin: :grin: :grin:

I hear that it may have a down side. Everyone else...get down to it.

[CATCH AND EAT]

I just don't get it. I give up.......

[Fishfeet]

If Or When I retire, I`ll never put UP or DOWN my fishin` pole again! :grin: Cept for when I pick UP a golf club to drive a ball UP or DOWN the fairway! Ff

[Hogmaster]

I'm just glad no one is getting all sideways about this! :grin:

[Pete]

Oh, I don't know, Hogster, I'm upside down over it, just upended. I am surprised there isn't more of an uproar.

[Irish Pennant]

This thread shows that we live in a 3 dimensional world. Up, Down and Sideways. Note: Sideways is like backwards with only a 90-degree difference.