Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a State Police Officer see"s a car puttering along at 22 MPH.
He thinks to himself, "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over. Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies, two in the front seat and three in the back, wide eyed and white as ghosts. The driver, obviously confused, says to him, "Officer, I don"t understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?"
"Ma"am," the officer replies, "You weren"t speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers."
"Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly twenty-two miles an hour!" the old woman says a bit proudly.
The State Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle, explains to her that "22" was the route number, not the speed limit.
A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error.
"But before I let you go, Ma"am, I have to ask... Is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken and they haven"t muttered a single peep this whole time," the officer asks.
"Oh, they"ll be all right in a minute officer. We just got off Route 142."
adj. (-ier, -iest) tastelessly showy. gaudily adv. Gaudiness n. [obsolete gaud ornament, from latin gaudeo rejoice]
GAUGE
(us gage: see also sense 6) —n. - standard measure, esp. Of the capacity or contents of a barrel, fineness of a textile, diameter of a bullet, or thickness of sheet metal.
- instrument for measuring pressure, width, length, thickness, etc.
- distance between rails or opposite wheels.
- capacity, extent.
- criterion, test.
- (usu. Gage) naut. Position relative to the wind. —v. (-ging) 1 measure exactly.
- measure the capacity or content of.
- estimate (a person, situation, etc.). [french]
GAUNT
adj. - lean, haggard.
- grim, desolate. gauntness n. [origin unknown]
GAUSS
n. (pl. Same) unit of magnetic flux density. [gauss, name of a mathematician]
GAUZE
n. - thin transparent fabric of silk, cotton, etc.
- fine mesh of wire etc. gauzy adj. (-ier, -iest). [french from gaza in palestine]
GAVEL
n. Hammer used for calling attention by an auctioneer, chairman, or judge. [origin unknown]
GAWKY
adj. (-ier, -iest) awkward or ungainly. gawkily adv. Gawkiness n.
GECKO
n. (pl. -s) tropical house-lizard. [malay]
GEESE
pl. Of *goose.
GEMMA
n. (pl. Gemmae) small cellular body in plants such as mosses, that separates from the mother-plant and starts a new one. gemmation n. [latin, see *gem]
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