It's like some twisted children's book around our house: "The
Poky Little Penis went up the hill, and then tumble bumble, down he went." Baby brothers are so useful to have around when you want to talk about potentially delicate masculine subjects.
The birds and the bees: when you're a lesbian mom, having "the talk" takes on a whole different meaning
The Christmas Letter by Kevin Prochaska is heartwarming novel depicting the story of Viola Martin and her unexpectedly friendship with her inquisitive and
poky grandson Jimmy.
The Christmas Letter
Some states are passing law to keep
poky drivers out of the left lane of the highway.
Slower traffic keep right
If you want more of a pocket rocket, you can opt for a very
poky 1.7 litre diesel, but the 1.3 version is still nippy enough, accelerating from 0-60mph in about 13 seconds.
DRIVETIME:MOTORING: TIME TO GET A LIFE; ROAD TEST: VAUXHALL CORSA LIFE 1.3
I had asked the nice people at VW for the loan of a
poky but economical car for a holiday with my younger son who is living and working in the far north of Scotland.
Motor Max: Bora not such a bore
And even the properties I looked at for that price were
poky.
Dream home nightmares
Now skaters are notoriously
poky, especially in times of tour, but in this case we didn't have a team manager type stoking the fires of responsibility, no demos, and the other usual drill captain--the photographer--was me.
Behind the music
The purchase would bring DIC an array of more than 500,000 titles and characters such as Pat the Bunny,
Poky Little Puppy, Underdog and Lassie, among others, as well as Golden Books' extensive distribution network.
Golden Purchase Brings DIC Characters, Distribution
Old,
poky machines are more susceptible to breakdown delays.
Technology for the new millennium
By contrast, the Voyager I probe moves at a
poky 38,000 miles per hour (912,000 miles per day).
The Fastest Spacecraft Yet?
While IHS has been scrambling to rid itself of businesses that were being hammered by PPS, such as home health and infusion, it's paying the price for being
poky. "They've been divesting themselves, but not as fast as they would have wanted or at the price they would have wanted," says Mains.
IHS reports $1.82B loss for 3Q99
Retailers seeking still lower price points can consider Golden Books Family Entertainment Home Video & Audio's upcoming release of
Poky and Friends, a three-video collection based on the top-selling books The
Poky Little Puppy, Scuffy the Tugboat and Soggy Baggy Elephant.
Children's titles still pacesetters
Melamine cup sets and a plastic cup set with books will be available in 2000, and will feature six characters from Golden Books -- The
Poky Little Puppy, Shy Little Kitten, Tootle the Train, Scrawny Lion, Scuffy the Tugboat and The Saggy Baggy Elephant.
NEW LICENSES, NOVEL PARTNERS
Their eggs go through a 12- to 15-month incubation, unusually
poky for a reptile.
Return of the tuatara: a relict from the age of dinosaurs gets a human assist
Work on the Queen Mary halted in December 1931, and the launch was not until 1934, when the sea-fevered John Masefield wrote an ode for the occasion, entitled 'Job 534' ('I long to see you leaping to the urge', etc., in The Times 25 September 1934), and, subsequently, a letter to Florence Lamont about the 'deplorable' decoration of the '
poky and stingy' lounges and lesser rooms (Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont), ed.
Auden's 'hush-hush engine' and 'wonder liner'