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> Subject: THIS IS SOOOOOOO CLEVER...!
>
> It´s been
> around already but it´s always fun checking this
> up:
>
> PHENOMENAL 2
>
> LETTER WORD
>
>
> I'm sure you will enjoy this. I never knew one word
> in English language that can be a noun, verb, adj, adv,
> prep.
>
> UP
>
> Read until the end ... You'll laugh.
>
>
> This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other
two-letter
> word, and that word is UP .'
> It is listed in the dictionary as an
>
> [adv.], [prep], [adj.], [n] or
> [v].
>
> 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 (if there is a tie, it
> is a toss UP ) and why is it UP
> to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our
> friends,
>
> brighten UP a room,
> polish UP the
> silver, warm UP the leftovers and
> clean UP the
> kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UPthe old
> car.
>
>
> At other times, this 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
> blocked 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
UP 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
> ( 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 soaks
UP the earth. When it does not rain for a while, things dry UP .
> One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP ,
> for now . . . My time is 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 !
>
> Did that one
> crack you UP ?
>
> Don't screw UP .. Send this on to
> everyone you look UP in your address book . . . Or
> not . . it's UP to you.
>
>
> Now I'll
> shut UP !
> --
Quoted from the UHH site
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