When an application is processed in FRVIS using the letter “O”, it automatically converts to a 0 (zero). When a request for a personalized license plate contains the letter O, inform the customer that we DO NOT manufacture license plates with the letter O. We use the number 0 (zero) instead. Only process license plate configurations with the number 0 (zero).
We were at South Illinois University in Carbondale for the total solar eclipse in April and saw paw prints EVERYWHERE. I now know what a Saluki is, ha ha.
Spotted in Apr 2018, the picture isn’t great because the car was ahead of me and I couldn’t close the distance. I wanted to see what kind of people would put that on their car. Might as well put NAZI LVR or MASTR R8C or LUV ADOLF, right?
Wiki has a decent page on it. I reviewed it before posting. While it includes information like,
The Aryan race is an obsolete historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a racial grouping.
It also has,
By the 1930s, the concept had been associated with both Nazism and Nordicism, and used to support the white supremacist ideology of Aryanism that portrayed the Aryanrace as a “master race”, with non-Aryans regarded as racially inferior (Untermensch, lit. ‘subhuman’) and an existential threat that was to be exterminated. In Nazi Germany, these ideas formed an essential part of the state ideology that led to the Holocaust.
One of the elderly gents at my condo was named Adolph. Given the timing and place of his birth I have little doubt that The Other Adolph was his namesake.
He was truly a delightful guy. But, wisely, he did not have a personalized plate.
The 2010 San Francisco Giants, the first year they won the World Series after moving from New York in 1958.
This one is mine. After game 2 in that series the Giants had taken a 2-0 series lead. With the pitching staff they had there was no way they were going to lose 4 of the next 5 games, so I ordered this plate to put on my wife’s car. I already had a special plate on my car.
I was hoping to not jinx the baseball gods, especially after the painful 2002 World Series. This championship was inevitable. The Giants won the series, 4 games to 1.
But it’s not the same word. It’s a different number of letters, the additional letter is nowhere in “aryan”, and when I see it I see three syllables, though I don’t know how it’s pronounced.
I mean, I can see how you get there. But I wouldn’t have gotten there just from seeing the plate.