[align=left]>[align=center]There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning 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 waken 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 read UP on a story in the paper that we pick UP to find out what is Up
>in the world & make UP our minds to not give UP hope that some thing good
>will turn UP.
>
>We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the
>silver, and 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 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 of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the
>dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, UP takes UP almost 1/4th the page
>and definitions add UP to about thirty.
>
>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 Up to 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 a while, things dry UP.
>
>One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for my time is UP & I leave
>it Up to you to step UP & Keep Up the sharing of this list that has been
>made UP to lift Up your spirit, so put UP or Shut UP.
>
>
>..... I give UP!
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