Best E-mails of the Week Nov 27, 2005
Thank you Sal for all the great emails you contribute to this site.
I know that you are my classmate George's older brother
who wrote the school song for our high school when it was St. Mary's in Westchester.
Your sister married my cousin Peter Allen, and I saw you at a golf tournament on the
Taconic State Parkway, where you over powered them with your 4 wood!
Your son is at a great Ivy League college and you always send me great emails like this one.
Thanks again! Pete
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Subject: UP
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 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 UP the earth. 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 *
Lou,
Thanks for hosting us Thanksgiving Day and for telling me that you go back
to the Concentration type memory game I posted here a few months ago.
You still play that game and have reached the majority of hidden symbols!
You have a great mind Lou!
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration!
We had a nice meal at Melvin and Elaine's with Dan's family.
Chuck arrived Tue. to take Dad back to Wichita for the holiday and Ray will bring him back next week.
Jake chose to stay in Mpls. and celebrate with friends.
Thought I would share some pictures of Nick and Ryan's hunting this Fall.
Ryan shot a 6-point deer his first time out a few weeks ago.
Nick is pictured with his many prey...geese, pheasant and partridge.
They enjoy hunting and seem to have a nack for it!
I helped Ryan clean the deer and it brought back memories of
butchering chickens on the farm years ago!!
(Would one of the siblings in Wichita share these pictures with Mom..thanks!)
Liz
I decided to host the www.Plumpy-nut.
infowebsite.
It is a great food that helps hungry children.
Check it out when you can.
A couple go for a meal at a
Chinese Restaurant and order the "Chicken
Surprise". The waiter brings the meal, served in a lidded cast iron pot.
Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises
slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around before
the lid
slams back down.
"Good grief, did you see that?" she asks her husband.
He hasn't, so she asks him to look in the pot. He reaches for it and again
the lid rises, and he sees two little eyes looking around before it slams
down.
Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what is happening, and
demands an explanation.
"Please sir," says the waiter, "what you order?"
The husband replies, "Chicken Surprise."
You're going to love this....................
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Ah... so sorry," says the waiter, "I bring you Peeking Duck
Pete
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