Not Quite A Joke .................

[Shaglene]

THIS IS CLEVER!
I'm sure you will enjoy this. I never knew one word in the 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 UP the 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 ?



Now I'll shut UP !

[marval]

HaHa, I'm up for this joke.

[Ellipsis]

I don't wish to UP-SET you, but the word "set" is (ironically) even more flexible than the word "up" ...

[Patsy33]

Oh, I give up!...

[piggynose]

up, yours

[Calibax]

Why does slow up mean the same as slow down?

[chrissa1]

Oh that was good. I'm all loved-up.

[Clanad]

Why, when preparing for winter, do we go to the forest and cut a tree down (for firewood) and then proceed to cut it up?

[Bazile]

I don't want to UPset you , but I would give UP posting these jokes , if i were you .

But then , it's UP to you

[DTCwordfan]

Would you like to ride up in our AB balloon?
Would you like to glide up in our AB balloon?
We could flow among the threads, together you and I

For we can fly, up, up and away
(For we can fly)
Up in our beautiful, our beautiful AB balloon

The world's a nicer place up in our AB balloon
It wears a nicer face up in our beautiful AB balloon
We can sing a song and sail up along the silver sky

For we can fly, up, up and away
(For we can fly)
Up in our beautiful, our beautiful AB balloon

Suspended under the Jokes canopy
We'll search the threads for a shaneystar to guide us
If by some chance you find yourself loving AB
We'll find a cloud to hide us, keep the moon up beside us

Love is waiting there, in our beautifu ABl balloon
Way up in the air, up in our beautiful AB balloon
If you'll hold our hands, we'll chase your dream across the sky

For we can fly, up, up and away
(For we can fly)
Up in our beautiful, our beautiful AB balloon

Up, up and away
Up, up and away
Up, up and away

[jourdain2]

Applause! DTC

[Caribeing]

Great little Scrabble word as well gets you an upgrade and upstart!

[Patsy33]

Very upbeat.. Keep it up DTC!