<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Bob, what’s up ? i know it isn’t up to me but this shit is fucked up.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 10, 2020, at 9:38 PM, Rob Anderson via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca" class="">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">How could the author forget JD’s “Why don’t you just dummy up!”<br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)" class="">An amazing 2-letter English word.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></font></p></div><div class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="99%" style="width:367.906px;border-collapse:collapse" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="100%" style="width:363.906px;padding:1.5pt" class=""><div style="margin-bottom:12pt" class=""><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""> <br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">A reminder that one word in the English language that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and preposition.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> </span></b> <br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">UP</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""><b class=""> </b></span> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">Read until the end ... you'll laugh.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">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].</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">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?</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">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 UPa 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.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">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.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class="">We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP aboutUP!</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">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.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">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.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">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 awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now . . . my time is UP!</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">U</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">P</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">!</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">Did that one crack you UP?</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">Don't screw UP. Send this on to everyone you look UP in your address book . . . or not . . . it's UP to you.</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family:Papyrus" class="">Now I'll shut UP!</span></b></font><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin-left:138pt;margin-right:138pt;margin-bottom:5pt" class=""><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div>
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