Quit being so upity.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto:  KISS
Motivation:  Don't ask

What's this?  Upsmanship?

Well, ya got one up on me there pawdner...

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto:  KISS
Motivation:  Don't ask

Down is the new up...dawg

drawn to design, designed to draw

he's apparently not down with that.

Peel back 'sup or whazzup.....should be hidden in there somewhere.

Sounds like Thud's second law: what goes down must come up.

==> Where did it go?
Is this thread you're thinking about?  thread1010-113028: What's it with up?

Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

Yes Cajun that's the one.  Thank you.

OK -- I went to thread1010-113028: What's it with up? and re-lauged all the way thru.  I even laughed at some of my own posts.  Is that gauche or what?

At my workplace, we upsize thousands of holes every working day.*  But the other day we had an unusual issue aka problem with an upsized hole which triggered a remembrance of the referenced thread so that a whole string of ups came to mind even though upsize is a legitimate word:

Wakeup, take-up, windup, measure up, tune-up, lineup, speak up, signup, fire up, tone down, and roundup just to name a few that I think were not mentioned in the other thread.

There is a town Roundup, Montana.  I have been there.  This is also a legitimate word, roundup.  I looked it up in the dictionary.  So what do you do when you disperse the cattle or let them go?  Do you round-down or round out or...?

* I first wrote, "...every single working day."  But now that jimbo has sensitized me to the inaneness of using superfluous and meaningless words, I find myself rethinking much of what I write and then rewording it.  I even considered writing, "...literally thousands of holes...".

When I wrote this post on Ms Word, It told me that the sentence prior to the * is a fragment.  Can anyone tell me why that would be a fragment?

I hope this post does not cause anyone to hurl.

==> At my workplace, we upsize thousands of holes every working day.
I cant' be certain, but I would guess that MS Word doesn't recognize the verb "to upsize".  And without a verb, MS Word calls it a fragment.  Another possibility, although I believe much less likely, is that MS Word was confused by mixing of the singular 'my' in the introductory phrase with the plural subject "we".

Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

My input on this important discussion:

This is f____d up...

tg

Well then, in this economy, things must be looking ... up?

In your dreams dude.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto:  KISS
Motivation:  Don't ask