Mundane, pointless, and I MUST share.
Yesterday I was heading home, and while on the phone with my friend I saw something that made me do a double take, ask her to hang on so I could take a picture, and then…well took that picture.
I felt I HAD to share this one with my fellow dopers.
:eek:
Rectum? Damn near killed 'im!
I was all ready to come up with some witty reply to whatever appeared, but my reaction to actually seeing it is much like Shayna’s.
I can’t help but wonder if there is another tag out there with the below on it.
Tubgirl
STARE I’d love to know what they told the DMV/DOT/Whatever when buying their plate. I mean, aren’t you supposed to put down an explanation of the string you want to use so they can check it? (I know people fib, but that fib I want to hear!)
Here’s a plate I snapped not too long ago in Berkeley:
Awesome.
Well, that ain’t your grandfather’s obscenity!
Troy McClure SF, was that deliberate or serendipity?
As to the car in the OP – I wonder if it has a custom-opening trunk?
Cubed!
“Well, it’s a Nissan Maxima SE and my friends all call me ‘The Goat’ because of my beard. I’d considered GOATS SE but I didn’t like the look of the double S”
I was expecting that A55 RGY one, with the (O-shaped) Florida peach in the middle.
If it the plate in the OP draws complaints, it can be withdrawn by the DMV. In California, that’s happened with a Yiddish word meaning fart and another word that slips my mind at the moment, but that spelled something rude when seen in the rear-view mirror. The authorization process now includes a mirror test, according to the article in the newspaper magazine. (Don’t ask which newspaper - it was too long ago.)
So you’re not home free just because you slip one by. The plate can be narked on.
I still have to wonder how many languages they test candidate plates against.
There’s a sector of people in my neighbourhood who have plates containing words in Cyrillic characters spelt out with the most-similar-appearing Roman equivalents. (It’s kind of like leetspeak. There’s a name for it, but I don’t know what it is.) Does the Ministry of Transportation hire Russian and Ukrainian speakers to screen their plates? How about Somalian? Greek? Math?
Edit:
Re: the OP:
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I think I also heard a similar story about a family with a name that could be construed to be objectionable, and they were complaining because it was legitimately their surname. The judge said tough nuts.
I also heard about a court reporter who had a place with TPUBG on it. She had it for years, but someone who could read stenotype figured out that it meant FUCK. That little machine reporters use doesn’t have all the letters of the alphabet on it, so combinations are used, and it’s done phonetically; so TP=F and BG=K. She claimed it was her own abbreviation for “if I can,” but nobody believed her for some strange reason.
And my husband grew up with a kid whose last name, while spelled quite differently, was pronounced the same as the word on the plate in the OP. I wonder if he’s learned about the, er, alternate meaning attached to that pronunciation and changd it yet. :eek: :eek: :eek:
If the information in the article is still correct, they don’t have multilingual folks checking applications, they have regular folks with a lot of X-to-English dictionaries. And a mirror.
So the math would probably slip by.
I think he mentioned that said car is owned by the icanhascheezburger guy.
I remember reading a complaint someone wrote to a state DMV (I think it was on The Smoking Gun) about a vanity plate reading “LES MIZ.” Apparently not aware of the musical, he thought it was a pro-lesbian message (les ms.).
Was it 3M TA3?
Here’s the story of a guy who couldn’t convince the Washington state Department of Licensing that his plate referred to something called a Manual Inline Lift Fluctuator.
