What's UP?

From Dick Pedersen:

 

An amazing 2 letter English word. 

It can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and preposition.           
 

            
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 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 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 "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 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, the earth soaks it"UP". 

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!