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Skriven 2005-02-15 15:05:31 av Everett Hertenstein (1:116/27.0)
Ärende: Wasted space
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Here is something that came from a joke list I get.
If you like it, perhaps you can think of a reason to justify 
its being here>  :-)
 
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Hi,You lovers of the English language might enjoy this. 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 for me too shut UP!!!

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    Everett 
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 * Origin:      -=-  Nashville, Tennessee, USA  -=-  (1:116/27)