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  2. Hobble skirt - Wikipedia

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    One series of comic cards called it the "speed-limit skirt." [4] There were several reports of women competing in hobble-skirt races as a joke. [6] Boarding a streetcar in a hobble skirt was difficult. In 1912, the New York Street Railway ran hobble-skirt cars with no step up. [4] Los Angeles introduced similar streetcars in 1913. [7]

  3. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Similar to the barn-megaparsec, the Hubble-barn uses the barn with the Hubble length, which is the radius of the visible universe as derived by using the Hubble constant and the speed of light. This amounts to around 13.1 litres (3.46 US gallons, 2.88 Imperial gallons).

  4. Killing of Jaahnavi Kandula - Wikipedia

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    Dave was driving 74 miles per hour (119 km/h) without a continuous siren while responding to a drug overdose call, and the street had a normal speed limit of 25 miles per hour (40 km/h), making his speed a Class "A" traffic violation subject to a $440 fine. [3] [4] Kandula died after the collision threw her 138 feet (42 m). [5] [6]

  5. 120 twisted jokes for dark humor fans - AOL

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    Wife: “I want another baby.” Husband: “That’s a relief, I also really don’t like this one.” My wife and I have reached the difficult decision that we do not want children.

  6. Rules of the Road: 25 mph is too fast. Is there a lower speed ...

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    Without a local alley speed limit law, does it default to the state law of 25 mph? The law I referenced actually opens with a broader requirement: “No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway ...

  7. Speeding in a California school zone? Here’s what ‘when ...

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    Any driver caught going faster than that speed limit could be issued a speeding ticket. Fines range from $35 to more than $500, not including additional court costs and assessments, according to ...

  8. Up to eleven - Wikipedia

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    The locomotive's cruising speed was 70 miles per hour (113 km/h), at which point the throttle was on "seven". During a trial run with a reporter from Popular Mechanics aboard, a C&O engineer expressed his dissatisfaction with a local speed limit of 75 miles per hour (121 km/h), noting that he would "Sure like to be able to pull it back to eleven!"

  9. I Can't Drive 55 - Wikipedia

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    In 2001, NBC Sports had Hagar record a "corrected" version titled "I Can't Drive 65", reflecting the common 65 miles per hour (105 km/h) speed limit on freeways at that time (six years after the National Maximum Speed Law was repealed), for use during Budweiser Pole Award presentations on Winston Cup Series broadcasts on NBC and TNT. It was ...