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02-22-2005, 08:06 PM
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Certified Executive Chef
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Eugene, Oregon
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WHAT's UP
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 word 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 the earth and often messes things UP.
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 to shut UP.....!
Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?
U-P !!!
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02-22-2005, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: usa
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thats a good one
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02-22-2005, 08:20 PM
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Chief Eating Officer
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Location: USA,Massachusetts
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LOL! Thanks for writing that up
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02-22-2005, 08:45 PM
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Executive Chef
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Posts: 4,677
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Why does you're "up-chuck" go down?
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02-22-2005, 08:51 PM
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Chef Extraordinaire
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Actually - I think it comes up AFTER it goes down
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02-22-2005, 08:54 PM
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Executive Chef
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No, it goes down-up-and down.
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02-22-2005, 08:58 PM
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Executive Chef
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Johnstown, Ohio
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That was just nauseating. Made me want to throw UP!
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02-22-2005, 09:02 PM
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Executive Chef
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sort of like a roller coaster. Up-down-up-down.....you ok damp?
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02-22-2005, 09:03 PM
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Chief Eating Officer
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Location: USA,Massachusetts
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Will you all shut up
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02-22-2005, 09:05 PM
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Executive Chef
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02-22-2005, 09:34 PM
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Chief Eating Officer
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Location: USA,Massachusetts
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Sorry that was rude of me. I will offer UP my apologies.
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02-23-2005, 09:00 AM
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Master Chef
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: USA, Pennsylvania
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GB
Will you all shut up 
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Thanks, GB! I was thinking that I'd had it UP to here with this thread!  :roll:
Actually, my family has an over-abundance of English majors who will all enjoy this!
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02-23-2005, 12:00 PM
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Master Chef
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: NW Chicago Burbs'
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Very UPlifting. :roll:
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02-23-2005, 04:47 PM
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Certified Executive Chef
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Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wasabi
Why does you're "up-chuck" go down?
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I give up, wasabi, why?
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02-23-2005, 05:13 PM
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Executive Chef
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Because it's easier to clean the floor than the ceiling.
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02-23-2005, 05:20 PM
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Certified Executive Chef
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wasabi
Because it's easier to clean the floor than the ceiling.
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you are right on today wasabi, were you a stand-up in your former life???
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02-23-2005, 05:23 PM
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Executive Chef
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Could be, but I'm a sit-down in this life.
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02-23-2005, 05:28 PM
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Certified Executive Chef
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Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wasabi
Could be, but I'm a sit-down in this life.
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that can be done, I saw on the comedy channel some of the funniest three guys sitting on bar stools, lmao.
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