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."
- (foll. By out) get (a thing) out of a person or cheat (a person) out of a thing by wheedling. [origin uncertain]
WHEELER
comb. Form vehicle with a specified number of wheels (three-wheeler).
WHEELIE
n. Slang stunt of riding a bicycle or motor cycle with the front wheel off the ground.
WHEREAS
conj. - in contrast or comparison with the fact that.
- (esp. In legal preambles) taking into consideration the fact that.
WHEREBY
conj. By what or which means.
WHEREIN
conj. Formal in what or which place or respect.
WHEREOF
conj. Formal of what or which.
WHETHER
conj. Introducing the first or both of alternative possibilities (i doubt whether it matters; i do not know whether they have arrived or not). whether or no whether it is so or not. [old english]
WHIMPER
—v. Make feeble, querulous, or frightened sounds. —n. Such a sound. [imitative]
WHIPPET
n. Crossbred dog of the greyhound type used for racing. [probably from obsolete whippet move briskly, from whip it]
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